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If only the rest of the game could live up to those visuals. Crossing Souls works just fine as a vessel for rose-tinted ’80s nostalgia, but shallow storytelling and gameplay that shifts from uninteresting to outright frustrating ensures that it never gets to be anything more than that.
I really must emphasise this; while I spent a lot of time in this review highlighting that much of Shenmue and its sequel doesn’t live up to the nostalgia that people have to it, as a work of narrative its strengths so completely outweigh its weaknesses that it’s still something...
There’s not much wrong with We Happy Few that can’t be fixed with some patches, and regardless of what happens there, the game has a narrative that is brave, intelligently crafted, and so incredibly poignant. There’s a reason that this game is set in the immediate aftermath of World War...
Phantom Doctrine did come out of nowhere to become a truly enjoyable and memorable experience. If you had have told me six months ago that it would be possible to take the pulp sci-fi, raw entertainment of XCOM and apply it to a Cold War espionage narrative, I wouldn’t have...
Madden NFL 19 is not a perfect football game, and I doubt there will ever be one. There is so much chaos that happens on the field with so many bodies flying around and colliding with one another non-stop during plays, but I came away from this year’s version of...
Whereas any other series would be derided for a sequel that was merely more of the same, Overcooked 2 demonstrates the series’ strong core mechanics and delivers another stellar experience to be had with friends. There is a very clear vision here, and it works on every front. The subtle...
Salt and Sanctuary is a solid homage to its blatant source of inspiration. It doesn’t supplant its predecessors, but it does an admirable job nonetheless, and offers players a moody, intricate, and fundamentally enjoyable dark fantasy experience.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with Crush Your Enemies. It’s presented nicely, has some nice, clean mechanics and is cleverly designed to be playable in short bursts of time. But it’s also a strategy game that struggles to encourage players to be strategic, and its best feature, the multiplayer, is dead...
However, the finality of those decisions is remarkably cathartic, regardless of whether or not you feel you made the “wrong” or “right” choices throughout the saga. It may have been difficult to see where the interconnected threads from the first two games were going to end up, but Banner Saga...
Cosmic Star Heroine is a nostalgic experience that is worth playing if you are a fan of the 16-bit JRPG era. The cast is full of wonderful characters, the plot interesting and the battle system engaging. The whole game is wrapped up in a ten-twelve hour experience which was the...
It would be nice to see the world of Code of Princess explored in greater depth in the context of a more narrative-driven experience. There’s enough material there for a “proper” JRPG, and the characters are certainly an appealing, amusing bunch. The humour tries a little too hard at points,...
The first of the two Mega Man X Legacy Collections contains four amazing masterpieces of platforming goodness. While it does not contain as many games as the original collection, the games here are all well worth your time, if not to revisit games from a bygone era, then to experience...
