Blair Bishop

Blair Bishop

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Writing about video games for 9 years, got lucky when I called Tom Clancy's The Division a bit naff.

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Lumines: Arise

Lumines: Arise

November 10, 2025
8.5

A nightmare to navigate, but you wake up to the most beautiful clash of non-intrusive puzzle gameplay, and fully realised visual design; the game Lumines was always meant to be.

A soaring exercise of how to refresh a franchise, Once Upon a KATAMARI consistently stays neck-and-neck with its history, sometimes surpassing it.

Painkiller

Painkiller

October 26, 2025
4.5

Derivative, degenerative, and largely despondent in what it offers, the completely unnecessary co-operative core of this Painkiller reboot is what sabotages its potential.

Painkiller

Painkiller

October 26, 2025
4.5

Derivative, degenerative, and largely despondent in what it offers, the completely unnecessary co-operative core of this Painkiller reboot is what sabotages its potential.

Heartworm

Heartworm

July 27, 2025
5

A survival horror that has the tenacity and capacity to succeed, but fails to get across that final hurdle of making its own bed to lie in.

It's cute in its minimalism, and remedial in its gameplay loop, yet despite promising to find that je ne sais quoi in the future, Islanders: New Shores doesn't have it now.

Battle Train
7

A jack-of-all-trades roguelite that sacrifices depth to reach as many bases as possible, succeeding barely in some, and excelling in others.

An off-beat monster collector romp through unfunny writing and cathartic action that has enough passion on display to warrant a pass, but struggles to plot its course beyond that.

A case of not knowing when to rein it in, as Laika: Aged Through Blood tries too much, committing only to the elements which serve to muddy up what fun can be extracted.

A worthy remastering of a title completely ravaged to time, with barely functioning combat dragging down an otherwise brilliant example of world-building and narrative.