Todd Eggleston
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Jusant: “An ebb, or low tide.” The world of Jusant is a world-event apocalyptic one. With no rain and its oceans now dried out, you and your pet-like companion journey the expansive seabed, passing forgotten wreckages on your approach to a literal cliffside fishing village. Jusant is very much, for better or for worse, a walking sim in every sense of the word. Well, a climbing sim, as you stare up and your journey now goes from horizontal, to being a vertical one.
Like a lot of us, I grew up with Star Trek and its films, but it was still a little bit before my time. It wasn’t until Star Trek the Next Generation that I feel Star Trek found its true balance and identity. TNG was the port that all future Star Trek ships sailed from, including Star Trek: Resurgence.
Season: A Letter to the Future, an indie title from Scavengers Studio, is a beautifully told journey of internal and external discovery. Look, I totally get it. I really do. We’ve been there, right? We’ve all Gone Home at some point. We are all aware of What Remains of Edith Finch. Artistic indies about self-discovery are nothing new anymore, but if we didn’t enjoy those more calming titles, those tiny oases of calm, then we wouldn’t be in this review. Right?
It feels like forever since we all saw SkateBIRD shown off in 2019. Those cute little avian creatures riding around on skateboards were a surprise of the show for me, and I have been waiting to get my hands on Glass Bottom Game’s adorable take on Tony Hawk. Time to see if this was worth the wait.
Cyberpunk is not new to video games. For generations, games have presented this futuristic setting of augmented humans and giant mega corporations. The last nine months alone have seen CDPR and Neon Giant try their hands at it with Cyberpunk 2077 and The Ascent, with mixed results. So can Merge Games and Antab Studio stick the landing with their entry, Foreclosed? The answer is, “Ish.”
If Spider-Man: Miles Morales reminded everyone why Sony was smart to tie down such a fantastic developer in Insomniac, then Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart cemented it. With its unique characters, family-friendly adventure plot, and top-tier graphics, there is little to dislike in this Lombaxian tale. Tale? Tail? Get it? Is this thing on?? Wow, what a tough crowd…
Horror games are no longer a small cult genre in video games. P.T. brought about a resurgence in celebrating the subtle but surreal, while 4v1 games saw titles like Dead by Daylight pay quite a bit of homage to the stalker/slasher films. And, of course, survival horror shines when a dash of unknown supernatural is added. Mundaun, by Hidden Fields and MWM Interactive, isn’t any of these. No, Mundaun is more akin to the 2016 movie, The Witch; a story whose hook is more about the telling and t...
Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earth Blood is the latest from Call of Cthulhu developers, Cyanide. If there is one thing Cyanide has in bunches, it’s a passion for darker fantasy. That said, the one thing I feel they are missing is the talent to have said passion translate to product. This isn’t to call them out as bad, not in the least. I simply mean that if vision ever equaled production, then this team could really be on to something.
Olija is Devolver Digital‘s latest release; a beautiful homage to the early days of 2D pixel-art action and platforming. You play as Lord Faraday, your story beginning as you set sail in one last attempt to bring riches back to your people and your poverty stricken land. After getting shipwrecked on a mysterious island, you must search for an ancient harpoon of legend and rescue your crew.
So we are finally, FINALLY, talking about Bugsnax, that tiny independent game from Young Horses that was revealed during a PlayStation State of Play. The game with the theme song, by Kero Kero Bonito, that infected all our eardrums like a wild Strabby. The savior of Next-Gen, as lesser titles like Cyberpunk 2077 delay again and again. It may not be the gyro we need, but it’s the gyro we deserve. Yes! We are talking about Bugsnax!