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For those who are familiar with the work of ZUN and Team Shanghai Alice, Touhou Spell Bubble contains all the familiar characters and songs you’ve loved before. For those who haven’t played a Touhou game before, prepare to be confused. This game, especially its lengthy story mode, assumes the player...
I don’t want to take anything away from Sackboy: A Big Adventure. Platformers are one of the genres I am least inclined towards, and were it not part of a (fairly limited) launch range on the PlayStation 5, I might not have been inclined to play Sackboy at all. I...
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is a genuine cultural artefact. It never forgets the need to be entertaining and engaging, but every facet of the game is invested in communicating the Japanese cultural perspective on the world, from how we see the divine, to the respect that we should hold...
My criticisms of Assassin’s Creed are nothing unusual for the series, and I’ve always enjoyed the series previously despite its issues. The appeal of each individual game to each person depends greatly in their interest in the location, setting, and period of history that the game depicts, and I’ve got...
There’s no place in the world quite like Harlem. It’s a hub of Black and Latnix culture, art, and music, going at least as far back as the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s. It’s a snapshot of the strength and resilience of people of colour in the face of social...
On the Switch there are some minor concessions to the hardware that are noticeable, but not game-breaking. The dinosaurs themselves look gorgeous (and it was right to focus on them), but the rest of the scenery suffers from some pretty significant pop-in and limited texturing. I also assume that this...
When I first heard that there was a turn-based Yakuza game on the way, I had no idea how it was going to work, but I was certainly intrigued by the potential of a Yakuza X Persona cross-over. Yakuza titles are always known for being a blend of a noirish...
There’s no way I can write a review of Trails of Cold Steel IV that will allow me to talk about the game’s finest qualities. This is the fourth chapter of a series that you absolutely must play from the first chapter, else you’re going to miss the critical context...
Supermassive Games has a house style which is immediately recognisable and comfortably niche. The team makes slasher games: just like a slasher film, but with quick-time-events and moral choices which determine who lives and who dies. After the runaway success of Until Dawn, Supermassive set up a nice routine for...
Watch Dogs: Legion is a continuation of the Watch Dogs series in every sense. It started with the personal vendetta of protagonist Aiden Pierce early in the generation in 2014. Then the sequel presented players with a larger DedSec crew, and now Watch Dogs: Legion again escalates the number of...
The artistic aesthetic of Pikmin is both superb and consistent, and once you’ve sat down with it for an hour or two, its charm becomes irresistible. Given that there are swarms of the little plant-critters on screen at once, the Pikmin have a bright and happy personality that fits in...
As an added bonus, Battlegrounds is fully featured, with all kinds of bonus modes to go with the main narrative. Throw in the breezy presentation and highly accessible gameplay, and it makes this one of the more distinctive and thoughtful efforts to capitalise on what XCOM pioneered. However, I will...
