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Sheltered is like a premium version of Fallout Shelter, and it’s a far more thematically compelling proposition. I love that it makes you be quite ruthless in your efforts to keep your family alive, but then allows you to feel awful when they die. It’s less humanising than The War...
That there’s some rawness to the overall package is not a criticism of this particular game by any means however. Oh no. Nights of Azure is such a progressive, artful and rich experience that, much like other masterpieces such as Nier of Pandora’s Tower, is so incredibly special as much...
Despite the above flaws, there is so much more that this game gets right than wrong. To call Tom Clancy’s The Division ‘just a shooter’ is doing it quite a disservice. It has some elements of the genre, but it comes away more akin to an RPG when things are...
Senran Kagura: Estival Versus is great fun, combining the rawest of Japanese-style raunch humour with a tight and mechanically sound combat system. Frankly, I don’t think there’s much else the developer could have done to nail the brief on what this game set out to achieve, and the PlayStation 4...
As to the main question of whether this title manages to sit in the middle, between a Warriors title and Nobunaga’s Ambition, I’ve got to say that it does. Purists will prefer the titles on either end of this particular spectrum, but I am sure there is an audience out...
If you’re keen for one of the suspenseful thrillers manageable with just images and text, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc comes highly recommended. The story stands alongside any mystery film or novel, and the writing lets you understand and even befriend the characters before you’re forced to see them pushed to...
I feel like I’m being very harsh on The Walking Dead: Michonne, but that’s only because I’ve been such a fan of Telltale games over the years, and this doesn’t meet my expectations of the team. I do want to know more about Michonne’s backstory, I just wish she was...
Stranger of Sword City is a stellar, and surprisingly unique example of a dungeon crawler. It’s dark, grim and gothic at times, and revels in the same difficulty that Experience Inc was able to throw at players in Demon’s Gaze, but its unique mechanics and themes make it one of...
Screencheat is my favourite local multiplayer game on the PlayStation 4. It’s a nice, small, download that I’m going to leave sitting on the harddrive for whenever I have friends over, and while that might not happen on a weekly basis (I like my space, okay), each and every time...
That might be a negative to you. It’s not really to me. Heavy Rain is very much the kind of game I like to play; it’s smart, interesting, different and highly focused. Cage might be a one-of-a-kind game director and thinker, and I do wish more developers paid attention to...
Rainbow Moon is not a good choice for people who are looking for a narrative, but for fans of the old school, punishingly difficult, hardcore JRPGs, this is a nice throwback with an awful lot of raw gameplay behind it. It’s not so much a weekend buster as an entire...
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 manages to bottle up something magical and succeed a second time in a row. This is a series that I honestly did not think would work when it first released, but somehow managed to exceed all expectations. I was better prepared for the zany...
