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You should be left feeling bubbly after playing Grow Home. It’s not perfect in execution, but given it was never meant to be a commercial product, it’s easy to see why Ubisoft couldn’t resist turning it into one – it’s a bright, charming and original little game that has an...
Aside from the lack of co-op, I can’t really think of a more engaging action game than Apotheon. Equally, I can’t think of a game that fans of ancient Greek mythology will find more interesting than the story that this one weaves. Sorry, Kratos, but you’ve got nothing on Nikandreos.
Overall I really enjoyed Citizens of Earth. I kept feeling a real desire to come back to play more and try to recruit everyone and finish all the secondary missions, all while trying to level up each citizen’s talent level to max. The story is light and humorous, meaning...
I hope WayForward gets around to making a Shantae title that’s designed with the big console experience in mind first and foremost. Three games in now and we’ve got a franchsie with real personality and a great character in Shantae – now it’s time to really let her, and the...
There was so much potential in Criminal Girls: Invite Only to be a transgressive, unique experience, but sadly, narrative missteps limit it from ever realising that potential. Instead what we have is a genuinely entertaining and original combat, and a minigame that, were Criminal Girls to be a higher profile...
I would have simply been content with Techland releasing another Dead Island game, as long as it came with some needed polish to help it realise its potential. Instead, we got Dying Light, a surprising mix of old and new, which has managed to once again rekindle my excitement for...
The biggest problem with Gunman Clive 2 is that for all the attempts to expand on the original game’s formula, it remains a very limited game. It’s not just that it’s over quickly, but it doesn’t do anything to really make it something memorable. It’s fun, it’s not much more...
If you can move past that, then Re;Birth 2 is a fine remake of the finest Hyperdimension Neptunia game in the franchise. It pushes more boundaries and is a sharper satire than the other games in the series, as fine as they are, and that marks this one out as...
That being said, it is a very clever little puzzle game that tries to add something through commentary that lifts it well beyond standard puzzle platformer fare. If PC is the only way you have to play Dokuro, then it’s worth a go anyway.
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Make no mistake, Papers, Please is a political and sociological statement, and often it’s quite a distressing one. But it also stands as proof of the power of games to extend beyond the boundaries of simple entertainment and thrills, and it tells a hell of a story in the process.
