Heidi Hawes
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Oh, Kirby. What a tumultuous relationship we’ve shared over the years. I fell in love with the cute round puff when I first played Kirby’s Dream Land for the Game Boy back in 1992. The love affair deepened with Kirby’s Adventure (or Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, depending on which...
It takes a special kind of person to work with dead bodies. Not only does it require you to not be squeamish, but it also demands a certain level of bravery. It can’t be easy to be all alone with the deceased for extended periods of time, wondering if they’re...
Lost in Play
Speaking as a curmudgeonly adult, who doesn’t wish they were a little kid again? No bills, little to no responsibilities, and hardly a care in the world. For most children, the biggest stressors are hastily slapping together homework before it’s due, and returning home from playing outside before the streetlights...
Many people look to video games as a way to blow off some steam or unwind through a casual, cathartic experience. This is one of the reasons why games like Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, and Spiritfarer are so popular. Strange Horticulture from Bad Viking is an occult puzzle game that...
Supermassive Games has made a name for themselves as creators of video games bordering on interactive movies. Their biggest success came from their first outing into this genre, Until Dawn, back in 2015. It was praised by fans and critics alike for its realistic graphics, branching paths, weighted decisions, and...
Full-motion video (FMV) games have a notoriously unfavorable history. There’s a long list of terrible FMV games, such as Night Trap and the legendarily awful Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties, among countless others. It’s very rare to come across a successful FMV game, with Dragon’s Lair, The 7th Guest, and Her...
Card Shark
Devolver Digital releases plenty of bizarrely interesting games each year, many of which have been some of our stand out favorites. Last year, they released Inscryption, a roguelike deckbuilding game that took everyone by surprise. Now just a few months later, they’re back with another card-based game, Card Shark, courtesy...
Silt
You know how there are certain games that you just know you have to play about ten seconds into its trailer? That’s how I felt about Silt from Spiral Circus Games when I first saw it. I’m a sucker for any game that can provide an immersive experience in a...
The Syberia series is a beloved classic and has been around for quite a long time. Developed by the Belgian comic book artist and video game designer, Benoît Sokal, the first Syberia game was released in 2002 and was met with critical and commercial success. Syberia II came out two...
I won’t lie, I’d been looking forward to The Cruel King and the Great Hero for quite a while now. After all, this was the successor to The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince, which won our hearts back in 2019 with its beautiful art style and super saccharine premise....
Stegosoft is a relatively new indie developer, with their first project, Ara Fell, being first released in 2016 and was met with general favorable reviews. I was fortunate enough to be able to play Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition when it came out in March of 2020, which fixed many of...
One of the reasons why I love the Nintendo Switch so much is that it frequently receives ports of games that were previously released for PC. In many cases, for me at least, these are games that somehow managed to fly under my radar when they first came out. Thanks...
