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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd is a love letter for fans, a final send-off for some beloved characters and fitting conclusions to endearing storylines. The likeable characters kept me interested and never left me feeling as though the development team had gone to the same...
These issues aside, what Akiba’s Beat does well is mesh all the stuff into a B-grade bit of fun that is hugely entertaining to play and completely competent in structure. Apparently the game wasn’t a sales success in Japan, and I can’t see the critical or commercial response being much...
I mean, I could take a piece of tracing paper, place it over the Mona Lisa, carefully copy all those lines, and then reproduce the artwork in its entirety. That doesn’t make me an artist of the standard of Leonardo Da Vinci.
A new NBA arcade game will always be something to get excited about. Many of us have fond memories of dropping coins into those arcade cabinets back in the day. A game that can capture that raw sense of fun, while modernising the more archaic elements would instantly become one...
There’s a lot to love about Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War III, especially if you consider yourself an RTS veteran and a fan of the franchise. If you’re neither of those things, then you’re probably going to find yourself very overwhelmed. While the game’s narrative is true to the universe...
I enjoyed my time with the game. It’s a classic dungeon crawler, and I suspect as long as I’m playing games I’ll have all the time in the world for that genre. It’s a beautiful, elegant genre, and, when it all clicks, it’s a timeless formula. Unfortunately, Operation Babel: New...
Syberia 3 feels like a game that was made because everyone involved in the project felt an obligation to make it. It has its moments, and as a fan it’s great to see Sokal’s work reach a proper conclusion, but it’s also difficult to see how this game will find...
Properly articulating what Birthdays means to me is difficult. It is the embodiment of the pure joy of gaming, where I can sit down and simply immerse myself within this space without feeling pressure or tension. There’s nothing to “win,” but everything to enjoy while, at the same time,...
What Remains of Edith Finch still has the traditional scaffold of a fixed narrative. The player cannot influence either the individual arcs nor indeed the ending: in that sense, it plays out like a book or a film. But a scaffold is just a device to allow what really matters...
But stuff ‘em, they’re wrong. I’ve rarely been as delighted in simply immersing myself into a game as I’ve been with GNOG. It’s weird, it’s colourful, it’s creative, and every time I completed a puzzle box, and was given another “parcel” to unwrap and unlock another puzzle, I couldn’t wait...
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is both an amazing nostalgic trip to an older generation of gaming as well as a breath of fresh air with its fast paced and solid combat mechanics. It’s rare for a developer to take martial arts and really try and do the philosophy and flow...
It has been a long time since Tim Burton has created a truly classic film, and much of his modern output reflects a man who has mellowed; he no longer sees the macabre in the mundane, and he’s quite content making cheerful little dark comedies or fantasies like that Alice...
