Charlie Kelly
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Melatonin is a rhythm game from Half Asleep that offers something we haven’t seen in the genre in some time. Featuring a twenty-something dozing on their couch, drifting off to sleep and dreaming of menial and abstract ideas, it’s highly conceptual. Then basing bite-sized rhythmic levels on these ideas, it’s...
You load onto the battlefield. Before long, your team is in harmony. The Hunter is whipping hydra forces around the map to an almost pinballing effect, wiping the floor clean. Ghost Rider mows down another group with their 1969 Dodge Charger (otherwise known as The Hell Charger). You win. Then...
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me is the season finale of The Quarry and Until Dawn developer Suppermassive’s first horror anthological series. It’s more of the same known formula: control a group of individuals in a horrific and deathly setting, making choices and completing QTE prompts to hopefully make it out alive. While...
Let’s be honest. We’re long past the day where being a horse girl is in. Australian television series The Saddle Club hasn’t graced our screens for a long time. The Barbie Horse Adventures series hasn’t had a release since 2008. Equestrian games have undoubtedly died out, much like licensed video games. So I was excited...
Tactics Ogre: Reborn is the first game in the Ogre Battle series to release in over a decade. Reborn serves as a remaster of Tactics: Ogre Let Us Cling Together, a 2010 PSP remake of the 1995 SNES game of the same name. A long and storied legacy has come...
Five years ago, an unheard-of combination in games came to fruition. The magnificent, beloved world of Mario joined forces with Ubisoft’s Rabbids. Together, that primary Nintendo cast actually formed perfect harmony with those silly little rabbit mascots, creating what I would argue to be one of the best tactics games...
The Voice of Cards series has seen a release schedule unlike any other. In October of last year, it all began with The Isle Dragon Roars. Just this last February, we had The Forsaken Maiden. Now just eleven months after the card-based adventure series’ inception, we have a third entry already with The...
The Legend of Heroes: Trails From Zero is a sprawling narrative RPG flourishing with many themes, twists, and turns. As such, this review will ever so lightly spoil and discuss said topics.
Foretales is a card-based experience all about adventure. With involved mechanics and inspirations from a balanced mix of tabletop and digital video games, a tantalising and twist-filled journey is all within your reach. It’s a genre foray worth experiencing. Just expect a few roadblocks and an at times confusing design...
Sunday Gold is a unique experience from developer BKOM Studios and publisher Team 17 (known for the Worms series). Players control a party of three hooligans, exploring a rich, dystopian, Cyberpunk London in the 2070s as they work to untangle corporate conspiracies. This is particularly interesting because it is a creative blend of...
The words Full Motion Video (or FMV for short) cannot even be uttered without discussion quickly turning to developer Sam Barlow. Serving as the creative director and writer on 2015’s Her Story, this venture arguably brought the resurgence of the live-action video game genre. It was absolutely showstopping, bringing investigative...
We Are OFK
2020’s edition of The Game Awards saw the premiere of We Are OFK, a virtual pop band. The spectacle was exciting and something not seen many times prior. Here was a pop ensemble, not too dissimilar to Riot’s K/DA, only now they were to release an accompanying EP and game....
