Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
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On a similar note, the game takes a pragmatic approach to time even before you start fooling around with Rapidium. When you hold a button to perform a task, Jan lurches into fast-forward, spinning through the hours with the shriek of a boiling kettle, till the standardised onset of "exhaustion" at 11pm sharp slams his blurring body to a halt. This shortcutting is a necessary convenience for the management sim player who doesn't want to spend minutes watching a dude wield a drill. But again, i...
Still, that's more of a wider, philosophical objection to the genre than a criticism of Monster Train 2 in particular. If you have no such hoity-toity qualms, this is as bountiful an experience as you could ask for. Each victorious raid on heaven produces a shower of unlockable cards and items that you can put immediately to the test. If you're weary of raiding the main campaign for cards, there are bespoke puzzle-campaigns via dimensional portal back at the starting depot, where you can test...
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 vast pile of Red Rooms including a Gym, Pool and Weights Room is a "Scarlet Athletics Center". It's the one aspect of Blue Prince I find humdrum: surely, Ros could have come up with more poetic descriptors than these, descriptors worth...
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A smart, sporadically generic but on-the-whole exhilarating mixture of ideas from God Of War and Soulslikes.
A gorgeous and immensely absorbing metroidvania platformer that is both easy to get into and dense with secrets.
A short-lived yet slowburn sci-fi drama about two engineers exploring a spooky, beautifully designed Martian base that's let down by a general lack of inspiration and especially, a dissatisfying plot.
A splendid, engrossing blend of visual novel and card creation game, where the cards you create are the means of navigating dialogue and pursuing a story about outcast witches, their griefs, lusts and more destructive tendencies.