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For those of us who loved the Nintendo Switch’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the last two years have been rough. After completing the game’s stellar campaign, it was hard not to wonder what was next for the series and even the genre as a whole. As...
It came as both a shock and a relief when Square Enix not only announced it was re-releasing Final Fantasy VIII, but the iconic title was being remastered as well. While it’s not the full-on reimagining that Final Fantasy VII will be getting, an HD upgrade is still a nice show of support...
Out of necessity of reviewing the new content, this review contains spoilers for the new “Rin” Route in Catherine: Full Body! If you don’t want spoilers, come back later when you’ve finished the game! The spoiler-free take? It’s a largely appealing game hampered by some mean-spirited and poor writing choices...
All jokes aside, Black Desert is a pretty popular MMO that has been around since 2015, making its way from Korea (where developer Pearl Abyss is based) to several regions around the world. Just in the past year, Black Desert has made its way to consoles, hitting the Xbox first...
It’s not unfair to draw comparisons to Masahiro Sakurai’s Kirby’s Dream Land upon loading Whipseey and the Lost Atlas onto the PlayStation 4. This multiplatform platformer is so obviously inspired by HAL Laboratory and Nintendo’s pink mascot and his numerous adventures; from the simplistic but cute character design to the...
Gunfire Games makes no effort to hide all of the influences in Remnant: From the Ashes. In fact, It’s a game that rests on the idea that you’ve played several of those games before. There’s a familiarity in some of its tropes that extend just close enough to “repetitive” to...
Remember what it was like to be a kid? We all had a childhood and we all had pretend adventures, usually with friends. Such is the case in Knights and Bikes, which follows two young girls as they have what starts as a pretend adventure of their own. This top-down...
After Quantum Break didn’t seem to do so hot as a Xbox One exclusive, development studio Remedy has returned to multiplatform with Control, another story-driven action game about paranormal phenomenon. Despite the pattern studio head Sam Lake seems to love following, he and his teams always find new ways to...
This review and game comes with a content warning for thematic reasons: anxiety, depression, suicide, and infanticide, some of the above involving minors.
Erica
As games grow as a medium, more niche genres gradually become mainstream. FMV titles, bolstered by the nostalgic resurgence of games like Night Trap and indie successes like Her Story, become more prominent and titles like Hidden Agenda are marketed as a way to get people who might not normally...
For some time now I’ve felt burnt out on the JRPG genre. It started with Final Fantasy XIII, and then Tales of games began to lose their luster. Every day I long for a return to the old school games I loved so hard. Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger. Final...
