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It’s always interesting to see what happens to a series when it moves in a bold and new direction, either mechanically or narratively.
Debuting originally in 2013 on iOS, Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas has been ported to every platform possible, now making its way over to the Nintendo Switch. With its style and mechanics drawing heavy comparisons to The Legend of Zelda, the action adventure game features a young boy protagonist on...
If Overwatch was a tabletop racing game, it might look a bit like Micro Machines World Series. It’s almost as if Micro Machines, as a franchise, woke up from a coma and was greeted with “its 2017 now, you need lootboxes… and skins, voice lines, and an ultimate ability that...
Valkyria Revolution
Let’s be honest from the very beginning here, you shan’t find me grand marshalling the next “We Love JRPG” parade. What I can’t deny though is that 9 years ago I played Valkyria Chronicles and was immediately enamoured to how truly charming it was. So I was quick to put...
God Wars: Future Past
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what makes a JRPG good or bad, and I’ve played a tonne of JRPGs in my life before God Wars: Future Past. I usually find myself asking the same questions when looking back on games like this. Does the story make sense or is it...
Conarium
A Lovecraftian novella transformed into the video game medium, Conarium tells an intriguing story in a gloomy and mysterious setting that will leave you with unanswered questions, curiosity, and an overall feeling of dread. Although for every way Conarium succeeds, it also finds ways to stumble.
Do you remember when Spore came out? Months of hype followed by a resounding, world-wide “meh”. God games have a tendency to seem really good in the premise, but are found to be really lacking in the execution. Some can break the mold and be enjoyable however (see any Sim...
Drifting Lands
Established in 2009, developer Alkemi began developing a puzzle shooting game which saw conflict arise and a legal battle take place delaying their project for 4 years. The birth of Drifting Lands was partly the re-branding of their previous game and the re-engineering of game mechanics into a puzzle filled space battle, with loot! ...
Arms
My excitement for ARMS (the Nintendo Switch’s new fighter and answer to the Wii’s Punch-Out!) has been pretty high since I was fortunate enough to attend the Nintendo Switch reveal earlier this year here in Melbourne. Getting to spend approximately 10 minutes with the game that evening, I was not...
Dirt 4
DiRT has always been a more serious racer than most, focusing on rally driving, particularly prominent in 2015’s DiRT Rally. It was incredibly difficult almost to a fault, with precision driving required and relatively unforgiving with its strict time trials. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that, but...
Tekken 7
For nearly 20 years TEKKEN has dominated the fighting game arena, and with its latest instalment, TEKKEN 7, things aren’t looking to be any different. There’s no denying that we’ve all played at least one fighting game before and TEKKEN would most likely be in a lot of gamer’s top 10 lists. For...
Skylar & Plux: Adventure On Clover Island is a 3D platformer in the vein of classics such as Banjo Kazooie, Super Mario 64, or Spyro. The game is part of what appears to be a small resurgence of the 3D platforming genre, a resurgence that I believe will one day be...
