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The Touryst
2019 has been quite a varied year for video games. The AAA scene has been a bit muted compared to last year. It almost should’ve been expected. How could you compare to last year’s God Of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man and Red Dead Redemption II to name a few? There have...
There are some games that drain you, that leave you feeling like you’ve run a marathon by the end; Blacksad: Under the Skin is one of those games. They sit with you and settle long after you’ve completed them. They occupy your thoughts and make you doubt your choices. It’s...
Sparklite
Sparklite is the first full release video game from Red Blue Games, a small development studio that clearly has a passion for 16-bit titles. With plenty of colourful indie titles with the same visual style already for sale, does Sparklite do enough different to stand out from the pack?
Bee Simulator
As technology and visual graphics improve, the popularity of simulation games such as Bee Simulator grows. The number of simulation games increases exponentially bringing different realities to the forefront of the human experience. Bee Simulator contributes to this front wonderfully, introducing an interactive experience which makes learning about and experiencing...
Black Future '88
There’s a rule of thumb that suggests that popular culture exists in 30 year cycles. Now that 80s kids are all grown up and making our TV, films and video games, nostalgia for the 1980s is clearly in right now. If it isn’t clear in the title, Black Future ’88...
Few games have had as much to prove as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. After the particularly frigid reception to Star Wars Battlefront II’s monetisation model, publisher Electronic Arts needed to prove that it can produce Star Wars games that are simply good games, and not simply complicated schemes to...
Need for Speed: Heat
Need For Speed is one of the classic racing game franchises. Ever since making its debut on the ill-fated 3DO in 1993 (even then featuring traffic and police chases) it’s been through its peaks and troughs. The first three games in the series I still enjoy playing from time to...
Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires’ Conspiracy, besides being a mouthful to say, is a game that came out for the 3DS and mobile platforms in 2017. It’s the 7th main game in the Professor Layton series, but is the first to star a protagonist other than the titular...
Death Stranding
After a long and very confusing marketing campaign, Death Stranding is finally in the world’s hands. It marks the first game Hideo Kojima has helped to make under the ugly divorce from Konami and the founding of Kojima Productions. It boasts some big names, wild concepts and quite a big...
Planet Zoo
Planet Zoo is a zoo management simulation game developed and published by Frontier. Similarly to the way Planet Coaster is a spiritual successor to Rollercoaster Tycoon, Planet Zoo is a spiritual successor to the Zoo Tycoon games first released in the early 2000s. Bringing together gameplay elements from both franchises,...
Nowadays, a tie-in game usually alludes to a mediocre experience all round. After years of bad tie-in games based off everything to make its way out of a cinema, it’s hard to imagine that a video game based off a movie could be good. Back in the day though, Disney...
It took me around 26 hours to finish Chapter 1 of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III. That’s this review in a nutshell. I completed every sidequest I could find, I beat every boss, and I watched every cutscene. 26 hours. Chapter 1.
