Kyle Nicol
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Ever since the reinvention of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, with Origins bringing it to becoming a full-fledged RPG, the series has struggled. Whilst I did enjoy most of my time in Valhalla, my opinion has soured over the years, with its overwhelming game world and RPG focus taking away from the identity of Assassin’s Creed. I’ve been yearning for the days of Unity to return (with fewer bugs of course), and Feudal Japan seems like a perfect chance to get the series back on track. As...
Since the 2016 release of Monster Hunter: Worlds, the Monster Hunter franchise has become an all-time favourite of mine, being welcomed into a solid community I’ve poured hundreds of hours into. From Worlds itself, to the criminally underappreciated Rise and its expansion Sunbreak. Or the charming spin-offs in Stories and Wings of Ruin. Monster Hunter: Wilds marks the next mainline entry in the long-running series, bringing back the same familiar gameplay loop, whilst making it a touch more...
Indie Metroidvania games are some of the best out there. They bring challenging and often time brutal gameplay in with some great level design, and often times unique mechanics as well. Although, there has been a slight oversaturation of the genre over the years. GRIME is a fantastic game that brings more than enough to the table to really stand out.
What happens when you take a survival game, horror title, first-person shooter, and combine it with a heist plot? You get Chernobylite, a mixture of a bunch of different genres that actually do manage to work together. First released in Early Access back in 2019 with a strong reception throughout most of its initial period, Chernobylite has finally been released into Version 1.0, so let’s take a look if it was worth the wait.
Over the past few years the Monster Hunter franchise has become one of my all-time favourites. Between the fantastic Monster Hunter World, Iceborne, and Rise, I have poured hundreds upon hundreds of hours into these games and counting. I can’t seem to get enough of them. Monster Hunter Stories is a niche title that didn’t get too much attention and I wasn’t familiar with it at the time, but was loved by most people that played it. Now with the rapidly growing popularity of the Monster H...
Resident Evil is one of those franchises that is constantly changing and evolving over the years, constantly shifting between genres, and that’s part of the reason I love it. Every single game offers a new gameplay experience. It’s not afraid of mixing things up and breaking the rules, but it’s no lie it has struggled a lot. That was until the release of 2017’s Resident Evil 7, which softly rebooted the franchise and put it back on track. Now here we are with the 8th mainline title, R...
The original NieR launched way back in 2010, and despite middling reviews at the time, it gained a cult following over the years. Like many, my introduction to the franchise was with the near (no pun intended) perfect NieR Automata: a cocktail of amazing gameplay, stunning world design, and an emotionally charged story. Whilst Automata was my introduction to the franchise I didn’t go in completely blind, researching the insane and ridiculously complicated and convoluted bit lovable and enga...
The Assassin’s Creed franchise is one that I have a weird relationship with. For the most part I’m very critical of the franchise, even with some of the most popular games within them, whilst defending the underdogs. Brotherhood I have often said is one of the weakest games in the franchise whilst I avidly defend 2014’s French Revolution entry in Unity (after all the patches of course). There’s been a lot of inconsistency in the franchise until recently.
What happens when you take Genji from Overwatch, give him a parkour-esque movement scheme from Mirror’s Edge and put him into 3D, souped up version of the excellent 2D action platformer Katana Zero? You get Ghostrunner. An addictive hardcore action platformer where you die in one hit, but so do your enemies.
The first person hide and seek horror game genre has been a fast growing one ever since the release of Amnesia: Dark Descent. A transformative survival horror game that propelled the genre’s popularity, especially among streamers. Since 2010, the genre has seen an oversaturation with games trying to recapture the horror where games like Outlast have succeeded. Meanwhile, others like Outlast 2 and the Remothered franchise couldn’t come close. Now Frictional is back with their first game si...