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Rhythm games are one of those difficult fields to navigate in terms of balance. On the one hand, a majority of the players will want to have the core elements properly presented: good soundtrack, solid mechanics, and an appropriate difficulty curve. There’s a reason that Pop’n Music maintains a good...
Aka
I remember first seeing Aka during the Nintendo Indie World Showcase and immediately thinking, “this looks like the perfect, easy-going, slice of life type of game that I could use during the chaos of the holiday season”. To be fair, my instincts were mostly correct, as Aka from Cosmic Gatto...
While playing Marvel’s Midnight Suns, what it reminded me most of was Sonic Frontiers. Not because of the gameplay obviously, as it’s clearly extremely different. But in other more fundamental ways, they were sadly similar. Both games were announced to a lukewarm to negative response from their target audiences. Both...
The year 2022 will be marked as a year where Square Enix decided to release a metric crap ton of titles, most of them completely devoid of a marketing campaign. In the past, those stealth drops were “reserved” to duds like The Quiet Man or Left Alive, but it feels...
Dead Space remains one of the greatest horror games of all time. A game that is equally both action-packed and terrifying, taking all the right notes from the amazing Resident Evil 4 and ramping it up to eleven. Dead Space 2 elevated this even further, with a more action-packed yet...
All of just a couple years ago, Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues graced home consoles to go along with the success of the Netflix series. While the game had a couple hiccups, it was a pretty solid beat ‘em up, so a sequel should have been everything the...
Blacktail
2022 has been one hell of a year for games, despite what many of us thought early on, with the announcement of massive delays across all platforms. Focus Home has had an especially great year, publishing some of the most noteworthy titles, including the tense narrative spectacle Plague Tales Requiem,...
Being able to have 2000 years of history to pull from as reference points in your media is an advantage I never imagined when coming to Japan. As an American expat, I’ve been heavily indoctrinated with tons of books, movies, and games that circle around key moments of history for...
Can you believe The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is already seven years old? We haven’t stopped talking about the game, the franchise, everything surrounding it, ever since. The amazing story, the memorable characters, the expansions that were as good as the main game itself, Gwent, Henry Cavill basically begging to...
Floodland is a game that pulls no punches right from the get-go. This odd mixture between a city-builder, a This War of Mine-esque survival simulator, and a strategy game starts off with a Planet Earth ravaged by a flood of biblical proportions, that all but destroyed modern civilization as we...
I’m going to be completely up front right now in the beginning to let you know that this review is coming from someone who is not a skater, nor was I expecting such a hardcore sim. My skating game credentials come from the Tony Hawk games and the Skate titles. So this...
I would love to understand why is EA so reluctant to properly promote the more recent Need for Speed games. Especially considering that, for all intents and purposes, they ended up being pretty good racing titles aimed at a specific niche of arcade-loving racing fans. Lack of proper promotion and...
