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.
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…
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.
We have all got that call, the one to help a friend pack or unpack a moving van. We have all sat on an overturned couch as we try to figure out how to get it out a door or around a corner. If we are being completely honest, we have all even banged our friend’s house up a bit in doing so. Moving Out manages to capture that essence but in an enjoyable, fun, and frantic addition to couch co-op mayhem hysterics.
Bloodroots is an isometric, fast-paced, action game from the small Montreal based developer, Paper Cult. If you were to take Samurai Jack, The Revenant, Hotline Miami, and a pinch of John Wick, and mash them together in a beautifully horrific orgy of violence and hate, Bloodroots would be their bearded, revenge-fueled baby.
It will be a cold day in hell when a good RTS comes out for consoles. Well, 11 Bit Studios may have given us a reason to put on our North Face jackets and grab that Pumpkin Spice Latte. Frostpunk for PS4 isn’t just an acceptable port of the 2018 PC RTS, it is surprisingly great overall.
Man of Medan is the first game in The Dark Pictures Anthology, Supermassive Games’ series of short horror stories. With their last four titles being for either PSVR or PlayLink, it is also the first true console follow-up to their PS4 entry title, Until Dawn, as well as their first notable multiplatform title. Although it fails to hit the same surprising benchmark that made Until Dawn the sleeper hit of 2015, Man of Medan still does more than enough to have me truly excited for the entire...
One of my favorite games on Xbox 360 was Remedy’s Alan Wake. It didn’t have the same gameplay and action as a Max Payne, but I was drawn into the character and the world almost immediately. Both the protagonist and myself trying to piece together the sci-fi mystery of the game. Admittedly, Quantum Break was not the next step I was hoping for, but its use of supernatural powers was a very fun mechanic and made it feel fresh.
There is something special about the relationship between a man and his banana. Wait, that sounded bad. Let me try that again: My Friend Pedro is a crazy-go-nuts platformer/2D side scroller/twin stick shmup. It gives you enough story to keep it interesting while making sure that you understand, by way of your floating banana shaped sidekick, that this game doubles down on the absurdity and gameplay of its action.