Charlie Kelly
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Dreams
The game starts with a big bang. My television screen slowly emits hints of constellations. A warm, dulcet and British voice welcomes me. I’m moving my cursor (a fuzzy creature with a point, called an imp) to calibrate my controller’s movement and space. Each mapping point I nudge with my cursor...
A great group of foes await me. Orcs, zombies vomiting bile, and knights block a clear path to my goal. Do I mow through them with my cardboard sword? Smash them to smithereens with my club? Or do I risk it all for the pleasure of swiping at them with...
I’m not overly seasoned in brawlers. I’ve played a few (Scott Pilgrim vs The World, a bit of Bayonetta and even that 1991 The Simpsons arcade game) and I was never able to master them, but I always had fun. So when a pretty, pastel coloured indie by the name of Super Crush...
Death Stranding
After a long and very confusing marketing campaign, Death Stranding is finally in the world’s hands. It marks the first game Hideo Kojima has helped to make under the ugly divorce from Konami and the founding of Kojima Productions. It boasts some big names, wild concepts and quite a big...
MediEvil
In the PlayStation 4’s near six year life span, there’s been quite a generous addition of both remasters and remakes. Remasters often look at furthering their audience, while remakes plan to do this and (hopefully) scratch that nostalgia itch. Like it or not, both definitely have their place. MediEvil, a...
Overland
I first learned about development studio Finji when they published the phenomenal game Night in the Woods back in early 2017. From there I decided I’d likely follow the studio in their future journeys. When I learned of Overland, a turn based tactics game set in a post-apocalyptic America coming...
One of the reasons I joined Checkpoint is my pure love of games. I’ve played through hundreds of games over the years. Naturally this allowed for me to learn what does and doesn’t work for me in titles. Take a bit from this game and a little from that, oh...
The Blackout Club
If you were to watch a trailer for recent horror co-op game The Blackout Club, it’d be pretty easy for you to see its play on 80’s nostalgia. With popular properties such as It and Stranger Things following a team of ragtag teens working to fight against the great big...
Box Boy! + Box Girl!
When the Boxboy series first broke onto the scene back in 2015 on the Nintendo DS, it innovated a new and interesting way of puzzles in gaming. It took a simple art style and easy enough concept and accelerated it to 100, finding bizarre ways for the user to use...
