Marcus Stewart
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You are a demon made of glass and pain. Literally. Looking to escape from Hell, you sign a contract with the Devil to devour the moons illuminating the realm’s many layers. Your steed is a skateboard, a forbidden object you’ll use to kick and push through the Underworld, acting as the Silver Surfer to your own Galactus. Skate Story’s strange premise and surreal art direction are equal parts alluring and head-scratching. While the gameplay is a mixed bag, I enjoyed this fascinating blend...
Tribute Games, creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, know how to spice up the easily bland beat ‘em up genre like few studios can, and Marvel Cosmic Invasion is no exception. Injecting tag-team mechanics reminiscent of the Marvel tag fighters adds a fun layer of strategy and chaos to this intergalactic smackdown, creating a retro-inspired treat comic fans shouldn’t miss.
Regardless of whether you call them “search action” games or Metroidvanias, Possessors offers a fun, if very familiar, take on the formula. Its strong combat and quality storytelling make up for a few stumbles on the exploration side. By the time I saw credits, I didn’t regret making a deal with this devilish adventure.
Ninja Gaiden 4 is about as pure action as a game can get, and it’s a delicious and sometimes exhausting gauntlet of increasingly brutal bouts that test your reflexes, dexterity, endurance, and creativity in exciting ways. It’s a welcome return to form for a franchise whose last mainline entry was well over a decade ago, and its trademark tight controls have never been tuned finer. Platinum Games, which serves as the primary developer behind this entry, nails the distinct feel of Ninja Gai...
I repeatedly asked myself one question while playing Hotel Barcelona: Why?
The more Silent Hill f promises change, the more it stays the same; for better or worse. While its ‘60s Japanese setting distances it far enough from previous entries to invite newcomers, fans will feel right at home exploring its foggy, monster-ridden roads. As a horror experience, Silent Hill f’s creepy new threats fall short of being truly terrifying thanks to an overreliance on the same handful of scare tactics. As an action game, the brutally intimate combat, like the weapons you wie...
For many triple-A video games, appealing to a wide audience often means ensuring players can see a game to its conclusion. That sometimes translates to sanding down combat, exploration, and puzzle-solving to make it as approachable as possible. But this can also veer into making games too guided for their own good. Hell is Us tosses all of these conventions out of the window. Goodbye quest logs, maps, and objective arrows telling you where to go. By trusting players to figure things out, Hell...
It’s tough to discuss And Roger without giving away its bittersweet plot. This emotional visual novel excels at telling its gripping story through ingenious gameplay, demonstrating the power of showing rather than telling to deliver a powerful experience.
The Soulslike subgenre is becoming oversaturated, so it’s difficult for new takes to stand out. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers doesn’t reach the upper echelon of its stronger contemporaries, but it is a generally well-executed checklist of genre tropes with inventive ideas for combat customization and a unique form of dynamic difficulty scaling.
As a pioneer of the first-person shooter genre, Doom laid the foundation for its contemporaries but has also never rested on its laurels. Doom 3 steered the franchise toward survival horror. The 2016 reboot dared to revisit and refine the old-school formula in an era of Call of Duty-likes. Doom Eternal, for better or worse, implemented parkour-esque platforming. Doom: The Dark Ages offers perhaps the biggest and most impressive shake-up of the series’ tried and true formula. Incorporating v...