Oliver Shellding
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Golf. The slow game. The businessman’s pastime. The only sport that is somehow both incredibly relaxing and insufferably stressful at the exact same time. I’ve played golf once in my life, generally enjoying it, but noticing that my lack of left handed clubs gave me a handicap that my fellow...
There are three criteria to making a video game truly great, in my humble opinion. The first is for the concept to be a unique premise, or at least a storyline that manages to catch players off-guard. Although Pony Island is now kind of a tired trope (and even was...
Archvale
The mixing and matching of genres in order to get a unique and memorable gameplay experience is a difficult field to walk. Sometimes you get brilliant combinations, like Action RPGs, Visual Novel Simulations, or Time Management Waifu. Bullet hell, sometimes called danmaku, is a weird one to try and intermingle...
In spite of multiple attempts, I’ve never really gotten far into world-building games. I’ve dabbled in Little Dragon Cafe, Lego Worlds, Minecraft, all the standard affairs, and it just felt like it wasn’t for me. I don’t have patience or real interest in creation, and, in spite of being impressed...
The Nintendo Switch is definitely the platform for bringing back titles with a brand new coat of paint. Some are really transparent: the port for New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe is downright offensive (no one actually likes Luigi U), and even Bayonetta receives little more than a shrug. “You...
For over two decades, Nintendo has brought forward the insane notion that their iconic characters would come together in a variety of scenarios that aren’t simply battles of good vs. evil. There’s been kart racing, basketball, tennis, and, most notably, party games. Mario Party was the 1998 spectacle that left...
Tunche
Sometimes, in order to really get the heart of how a game is going to be, it’s important to just dive right in. Don’t bother reading anything or learning anything beforehand: that might taint the pool before you take your first stroke. In a time of hyper information and trailers/teasers...
The Good Life
It’s important to treat video games the same way that you would treat other forms of art and entertainment. When someone walks out of a David Lynch film, the reaction is usually very polarizing, either loving the insanity or disdaining the disjointed madness. Would be fans who listened to the...
