Alex Everatt
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This past week I had the pleasure of playing the latest from developer Artifex Mundi, My Brother Rabbit. Artifex Mundi games follow a very particular formula – beautifully, hand-drawn areas where players must find hidden objects and solve puzzles to proceed. Generally, these games feature a fantasy, almost fairy-tale like,...
Danger Zone 2
Last year, we reviewed a fun, albeit flawed, Burnout-style game called Danger Zone that was developed by Three Fields Entertainment. Three Fields Entertainment was actually founded by ex-members of Criterion Games, the studio that made those great Burnout games. So in many ways, Danger Zone was a spiritual successor to Burnout....
Nintendo’s beloved pink blob Kirby is making quite the debut on Nintendo Switch with Kirby Star Allies. While Kirby’s recent handheld adventures, like Kirby: Planet Robobot have been great, the last couple console outings, like the Wii U’s Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, have been pretty disappointing. Fortunately, that changes with Kirby...
Danger Zone
If you’ve been gaming for at least a decade, there’s a good chance you’ve come across the Burnout franchise. The Burnout franchise is a series of over-the-top racing games with a heavy emphasis on crashing. The second Burnout game introduced a special Crash mode which specifically required players to drive into...
There isn’t much in the way of a story for The Escapists 2. For each level, you are brought into a prison, given a quick tour, and then must find a way out. Your escapes are bookended with cute little intro and outro cutscenes, assuming you actually can escape. Make no...
Miitopia
Miitopia begins with the evil Dark Lord stealing almost everyone’s face and transferring these stolen faces to his army of evil minions. The story follows a cycle of entering a town or kingdom, Mii citizens losing their faces, then hunting down the minions wearing the Mii faces. You’ll meet different...
It seems like the 3D platformer revival is going to be big in 2017. After the pretty decent Yooka-Laylee and the upcoming releases of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Super Mario Odyssey – it seems like what’s old is new again. And as a fan of classic N64 platformers such as...
Let’s start by getting this out of the way, What Remains of Edith Finch is essentially a walking simulator. Don’t run away, or rather, walk away just yet! Developer Giant Sparrow (The Unfinished Swan) has included some fun little gaming sequences that help it stand out in the walking simulator...
Back in 2013, Lego City Undercover was one of the Wii U’s best third-party exclusive games (okay, okay, it was one of the only third-party exclusive games). That was then, this is now, and Lego City Undercover is back and now available on the Switch, Xbox One, PC, and PS4....
Quite simply, Toby: The Secret Mine is the most blatant “Limbo” rip-off that I’ve played. Whether considering the aesthetic, gameplay style, form of narrative, puzzles or the abundance of trial and error – it’s all lifted straight from Playdead’s Limbo and repackaged under the name Toby: The Secret Mine. Even...
Dead Rising 4
What do you get when you combine Dead Rising 1 with Dead Rising 3? (let me just check my calculator…) The answer is Dead Rising 4. No, this wasn’t just some simple math problem, this is how I believe Capcom Vancouver approached this latest Dead Rising game. They took the...
Turn 10 Studios & Playground Games are back with the latest addition to the Forza Horizon franchise. Forza Horizon 3 truly is the perfect sequel. It takes everything we enjoy about the Forza Horizon franchise and adds just enough to keep it fresh. If you’re a Horizon fan seeking confirmation...
