Sorrel Kerr-Jung
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Every Final Fantasy game is enhanced by its association with Theatrhythm Final Bar Line, because every Final Fantasy soundtrack is given definition and thus made more beautiful. As I’ve been playing Theatrhythm, I’ve been going back and revisiting some of my less-beloved Final Fantasy games — I won’t name them here for fear of inciting war — and I sincerely appreciate those games more now. Theatrhythm Final Bar Line is a testament to the power of a soundtrack, and it’s well worth the attention of any fan of Final Fantasy, music, or Final Fantasy music.
"Pulled from the future and trapped in the past" is the perfect way to describe Signalis. Even when the scanline-infused industrial sci-fi horror gives way to some other aesthetic sensibility, the game is bound by the laws of titles that came before it. Its storytelling style and its gorgeous art are distinctly modern -- maybe even ahead of the curve -- but its gameplay remains grounded by the expectations of its nearly defunct genre. Signalis is at once familiar and alien. It's not always a ...
Unfortunately, none of these pros are really enough to outweigh the cons. Gotham Knights isn't a total waste of time, but it is a bit of a headscratcher. By the time the credits roll, it's hard not to feel like the worst moments of this video game were the video game, and the best moments were the ones that were totally uninteractive. If Gotham Knights were a comic miniseries or, say, a television series on the CW, it would be easy to recommend. As a video game, though, it's more of an odd, u...
In the end, Metal: Hellsinger can't sustain much of a story, and the one it sets out to tell is far too ambitious for the scope of the actual game. Most people won't be coming to Metal: Hellsinger for the story, though. They'll be coming for a game with the aesthetics of 2016's DOOM, a soundtrack headed up by a slew of metal legends, and hours of rhythmic fun. Where those factors are concerned, it doesn't get much better than Metal: Hellsinger. And who knows? Maybe Metal 2 will have a better ...