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Even though he’s typically the most serious member of the Justice League, Batman is, as we’ve seen over the years, pretty silly. Adam West climbing up buildings and thwacking and thwocking his way through bad guys? Silly. Val Kilmer in a batsuit with nipples? Silly. Ben Affleck having a shouting...
Bubsy 4D
When you have a joke or meme character on your hands, you realistically only have two possible paths available to you. You can try to rehabilitate the image of said character, often to mixed results, or you can choose to lean into the ridiculous curve and mine the character for...
To say Mina the Hollower has been a highly anticipated title is an understatement. Yacht Club Games built their reputation with Shovel Knight, with players embracing the retro style and gameplay elements. Mina the Hollower is more of that classic 8-bit style, with gameplay to boot, and while it has...
Every once in a while a game comes out that uses the medium to push the boundaries of interactivity and adds new facets to what it means to play it. Titles like Doki Doki Literature Club, Tunic, and Inscryption all take standard genres and mix them up with fourth-wall breaking...
007: First Light
Seeing IO Interactive at the helm of a new James Bond video game is like watching two pieces of a jigsaw perfectly slotting together. It’s a pairing that just makes sense given the Danish developer’s track record, having recently wrapped the Hitman: World of Assassination trilogy. Each game had players...
Outbound
You’re cruising gently down a quiet secluded road in your electric camper, the trees reaching up to stroke the blue skies on your right. Beyond the white sandy beach to your left, the sun starts to dip below the horizon, making the ocean glisten. Things couldn’t be more serene. A...
Luna Abyss
Luna Abyss immediately declares what kind of game it’s going to be through the opening scene. Haunting music gets louder and louder while a camera pans slowly to show the curvature of the Earth. And then, in an instant, it’s not just the Earth. A blood-red moon appears above it,...
Yoshi games have always revelled in bringing new and distinctive art styles to the table, not to mention exploring different styles of platforming game, and Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is no different. Taking place within the magical pages of Mister Encyclopaedia, there’s a lovely pencil art tone to the...
Motorslice
Motorslice is an anime-styled action game that mixes giant bosses, parkour traversal, and a minimalist design. On paper, it’s a blend that should work really well. Yet Motorslice veers between moments of excellence and many, many moments of frustration. Across the 11 hours it took me to complete it, Motorslice...
Quartet
The legacy of Final Fantasy (and to a lesser extent Dragon Quest in the West) is impossible to overstate with Squaresoft’s SNES RPGs in particular still standing unchallenged as the pinnacle of the classic 2D JRPG. For this reason, any modern attempt to recapture the look and feel of these...
Forza Horizon 6
Playground Games are masters of the arcade racer. Forza Horizon 6 is the latest in their globe trotting series, this time bringing its neon-soaked motorsport festival to the stunning climes of Japan. That in turn brings a new flavour to the racing action, with anime inflexions, cute food mascots and...
Call of the Sea was a game that I loved when it first released over five years ago, and so I was hugely excited to see that a sequel was coming and have been looking forward to diving back in since. Serving as a direct continuation of the original’s story,...