Skeleton
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Video games, with their increasingly longer development times, with the ways developers have to pray just to stick together for successive launches are starting to look a little long in the face, the skin is starting to hang off of the bones a little too much. By the time you’ve got something, anything to pull from comic books at all - they’ve already started to move on without you.
What is a game review? But a miserable pile of secrets. Skeleton tries to figure that out while reviewing Hokko Life and Joon Shining… and thinking about Nights Into Dreams.
There used to be a kind of genre for this dime-novel fantasy story that's mostly only being explored by unfortunately conservative writers in both style and politics; while Redemption Reapers does absolutely nothing to reinvent the wheel the, call of fantasy is that the wheel seldom needs re-inventing, it just needs to be given one or two more turns to bring things around again. Redemption Reapers harkens back to series like The Black Company but is missing a little of the panache and humour those books have in them. Much of modern fantasy tends to embrace the weird or roll their eyes at it, but what the game is really missing is any sense of levity or camaraderie in its first chapters. I wonder how many swords the director owns? from the construction of the world to the disposition of the characters in it: Redemption Reapers makes me more interested in listening to the director talk about the things that are so obviously close to their heart it's worth seeing the ways they miss the mark trying to capture them.