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South of Midnight
Not only are animals woven into the hurt of humanity as symbolic spiders, mistreated gators, and tortured birds, but the closing shots of many chapters will see ordinary and silent forest creatures watching in quiet contemplation as Hazel drifts away on the back of her catfish friend. Towards the end...
Blue Prince
I would have liked Dogubomb to have made a touch more of this. When you end the day in Blue Prince, the game scores and categorises what you've created: a two or three rank affair with a lot of patios and greenhouses might get called a "Rustic Cottage", while a...
Rosewater
My own enjoyment of Rosewater feels like a contagion in that way. Not just from the joy that palpably went into its creation, or the fact that the star-studded voice cast (including Arthur Morgan and the narrator of Baldur’s Gate 3) clearly had the time of their lives. I enjoy...
Inzoi
The only thing this does for the game is add a veneer of corporate soullessness to the whole thing. Alongside the terrifyingly flawless faces and bodies of every Zoi, their obsession with being influencers, and the meaningless achievement grinding as a replacement for opportunities to find real stories to tell,...
As someone who loves the genre, I can forgive so many of Khazan’s defects because of this fierceness. But I can’t deny that the game has plenty of weaknesses outside of those pitched battles. If it was a more concise adventure (a full playthrough will set you back around 80...
Atomfall
It's a shame that next to the investigating, Atomfall’s shooting, sneaking, and cricket batting don’t deliver the same joys. Still, they’re competent enough not to get in the way, and with a little finesse it’s possible to enjoy extended bouts of that rich, intricate sleuthing without doing a single violence...
And that's really it. The setting will largely dictate whether or not it speaks to you. I found it more appealing than the other big Creeds of recent times. I lasted mere hours in Odyssey's ancient Greece, and the same for Valhalla's 9th century England, but much longer in Mirage's...
Expelled!
A 1920s golden age mystery in which you plot your own path through the scheming world of an all-girls boarding school, told with energy and some bugs.
Konami's remasters make Suikoden I & II easy to own and play. That's all they needed to do.
Wanderstop
Wanderstop is meticulously thought out in both big- and small-picture ways, and that means it isn’t a straightforward game of a girl getting to put her hands in the soil and run a cute little café and be magically fixed. It’s a game that openly admits to not having all...
Split Fiction
Nic: Despite my gripes, I can't see anyone playing this with a mate or partner and coming away feeling they'd wasted the weekend. That's as long as you're both up for it in the first place - I doubt it's going to convince anyone who isn't already into Hazelight's schtick....
A mostly successful effort to address major criticisms of previous Civilization games - with some drawbacks and terrible combat UX.