Joseph Bradford
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From its outrageously beautiful visuals to its brilliant story, Final Fantasy XVI is compelling from start to finish. Its action combat is topped only by the incredible Kaiju-esque Eikon battles, and its story is one of the best I’ve played in the series. Final Fantasy XVI kept me entranced from...
The first time I really sat up and took an interest in a conversation happening in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was when the Candle Man mentioned Eärnur and his struggle against The Witch-king of Angmar. Hearing the fate of Gondor's last King before Aragorn would ascend to the throne...
After more than 20 hours with Arkane Austin's latest Redfall, Bradford came away incredibly frustrated and disappointed. From its earliest moments, Redfall fell flat. With the uninspired world building to the lackluster gunplay and brain-dead enemies, almost every aspect of Redfall was a miss.
What does it mean to simply survive? This is a question that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor asks through almost every interaction. Is surviving enough? How does one cope with loss, trauma, failure? Jedi: Survivor picks this theme up from its excellent predecessor, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and expands on...
Forspoken
Originally unveiled as Project Athia back in 2020, Forspoken tells the story of Frey, a New Yorker who sees themselves sucked into the fantasy world of Athia at the time of its greatest peril. How does Square Enix's latest AAA IP stack up though, and is Athia a world worth...
I think my first real moment where I stopped having fun in Dual Universe was after I wrote my review-in-progress and decided to jump into space to head off of Haven to Alioth, a nearby planet. After fighting gravity to successfully launch my ship laden with the goods I would...
I think I realized it all started to go wrong when, while manifesting my destiny, Russia joined the alliance of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and the Hudson Bay Company (yes, the HBC) in a war against me as the United States and Spain. However, I was determined: the gold fields of...
It's hard to pin down my thoughts exactly on The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle. The latest chapter in the long-running MMO by ZeniMax Online Studios, High Isle, strives to bring the narrative of ESO back to Nirn. As such, the focus of High Isle is on not some cosmic...
Deathloop is a game I find myself going back to time and time again after the credits rolled. “What if I approached it this way?” “I need to get just one more slab upgrade and that will be much easier.” “Can I go in guns blazing and still get away...
The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood sets an interesting tone for the remainder of the Gates of Oblivion storyline. It’s a definite return to form after last year's Greymoor chapter, with a stable release that, while still had some issues, felt as though ZeniMax had recovered from the rough three weeks...
Rome: Total War was a game I played extensively when I got my own gaming PC when I was 17. Total War had always been one of the major reasons I was a PC gamer, with Shogun still being one of my favorite games of all time, though there has always...
Let’s not bury the lede, shall we? Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is fantastic. It’s beautiful to behold in motion, and the saga it weaves reminds me so much of why I love reading about this time period – both fictional and historical. Ubisoft have pulled off a great feat with Valhalla,...
