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.
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.
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...
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!
Marvel’s Avengers is the latest entry into the world of shared world shooters. Although it never comes close to hitting the rock bottom of an Anthem, it never quite hits the highs that Destiny and Division have come to offer. This is doubly frustrating because when Crystal Dynamics isn’t trying to copy Destiny, it shines. It truly does.
By adding a pinch of platforming and a dash of metroidvania, Neversong is a heartfelt and fun 2D action-adventure. You play as a boy, Peet, who wakes up from a coma. Quickly, you find out that Peet may have just woken from one nightmare only to find himself in another. All of the village’s grown-ups are missing, as is your childhood sweetheart, Wren.
Let’s just start with the spoilers and end any pretense that Predator Hunting Grounds anything more than a seven-out-of-ten type of game. But for me, it’s the best type of seven game. There was a time when a seven meant that a game was good fun instead of, what it seems to now mean, “unplayable”. These games had their flaws, they didn’t push the envelope on graphics or budget, but were still extremely fun to play and come back to.