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If nothing else, the fact that I can spend so much time playing this despite the splitting headaches it gives me should clue you in to its sheer entertainment quality. Splatoon is ugly.
Fallen Legion shows all the potential in the world to become a great IP. The core ideas are strong, and the attempt to tell an interesting, deep story is admirable. Unfortunately this one doesn’t execute on its ideas as well as it should, and, critically, this lets down the game’s...
What this all amounts to is an expansion that doesn’t push Final Fantasy XIV in bold new directions because, quite frankly, it doesn’t need to. Stormblood takes everything that makes the game good and doubles down on it, expanding the world of Hydaelyn and filling it with more to see,...
Micro Machines World Series encourages online play as the preferred method to play the game, and for good reason. It’s a real effort to get four players on one couch to play together. Would it be easier to encourage players to the game if the mechanics were stronger, definitely. But...
Yonder is the nicest, and yet most deeply transgressive game we’ve seen in our little section of the art world, for quite some time, if not forever. It appropriates, but actively resists recreating every feature common to its peers, and indeed the entire games industry. At a time where the...
Finnish studio Housemarque have produced in Nex Machina another game to sit alongside its well-received titles of Alienation and Resogun, and that showcases the serious pedigree it has built since their start in the early nineties with Stardust. It is a rush of colour that delivers a satisfying experience that’ll...
Flip Wars’ problem is that it has no depth whatsoever. That silly, simple, chaotic, and utterly pointless button masher that you had a quick laugh at when you play it for the first time really is all that’s on offer.
In general, I like what The Golf Club 2 has to offer. It is a really solid representation of the sport both in terms of mechanics and the overall aesthetics. Because of the course editor, you have a plethora of options you can use to create the course of your...
Final Fantasy XII was a commercial and critical success when it first landed, but it proved polarising with fans, and has spent most of the time since being buried down the bottom of the Officially Approved Ranking List Of Final Fantasy Games By Real Fans (™). Us “casuals” that dared...
There’s not too much more I can say about Chess Ultra. Ripstone took something great that it already had going with Pure Chess, and further enhanced everything that the game was already doing well. In terms of aesthetics, atmosphere, and play features, Chess Ultra is as good as I can...
DiRT 4 does a remarkable job of creating a sense of speed, however, which is more than can be said for the last rally game I played, and I had such a great time handbreaking around tight corners when they came up. I had even more fun when I learned...
Despite that, I still think that Valkyria Revolution is an intense, special, and downright important game, with a powerful message to share not just about war itself, but also how we also talk about, and share stories about, war. This is especially poignant to the games industry, where developers have...
