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I personally got started with this franchise with Yakuza 4 back on the PlayStation 3. Since that first step into the labyrinthine politics of Japanese organised crime, I’ve found myself looking forward to each new release with more excitement than almost any other series out there. Not once has SEGA...
Guacamelee! 2 takes everything from the original game and makes it even more enjoyable. By drawing inspirations from Mexican culture respectfully, the development team have created a tight platformer that includes some very clever writing and satirical looks at other games in the genre, and it is quite possibly one...
Amazingly the Nintendo Switch has had more than a few light strategy games released in recent weeks: Element and Crush Your Enemies also both aspire to be accessible, simplified, but not unintelligent strategy games. Bad North is leagues ahead of the other two in terms of quality, however. It’s a...
If only the rest of the game could live up to those visuals. Crossing Souls works just fine as a vessel for rose-tinted ’80s nostalgia, but shallow storytelling and gameplay that shifts from uninteresting to outright frustrating ensures that it never gets to be anything more than that.
I really must emphasise this; while I spent a lot of time in this review highlighting that much of Shenmue and its sequel doesn’t live up to the nostalgia that people have to it, as a work of narrative its strengths so completely outweigh its weaknesses that it’s still something...
Phantom Doctrine did come out of nowhere to become a truly enjoyable and memorable experience. If you had have told me six months ago that it would be possible to take the pulp sci-fi, raw entertainment of XCOM and apply it to a Cold War espionage narrative, I wouldn’t have...
There’s not much wrong with We Happy Few that can’t be fixed with some patches, and regardless of what happens there, the game has a narrative that is brave, intelligently crafted, and so incredibly poignant. There’s a reason that this game is set in the immediate aftermath of World War...
Madden NFL 19 is not a perfect football game, and I doubt there will ever be one. There is so much chaos that happens on the field with so many bodies flying around and colliding with one another non-stop during plays, but I came away from this year’s version of...
Whereas any other series would be derided for a sequel that was merely more of the same, Overcooked 2 demonstrates the series’ strong core mechanics and delivers another stellar experience to be had with friends. There is a very clear vision here, and it works on every front. The subtle...
Salt and Sanctuary is a solid homage to its blatant source of inspiration. It doesn’t supplant its predecessors, but it does an admirable job nonetheless, and offers players a moody, intricate, and fundamentally enjoyable dark fantasy experience.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with Crush Your Enemies. It’s presented nicely, has some nice, clean mechanics and is cleverly designed to be playable in short bursts of time. But it’s also a strategy game that struggles to encourage players to be strategic, and its best feature, the multiplayer, is dead...
Cosmic Star Heroine is a nostalgic experience that is worth playing if you are a fan of the 16-bit JRPG era. The cast is full of wonderful characters, the plot interesting and the battle system engaging. The whole game is wrapped up in a ten-twelve hour experience which was the...
