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Cronos: The New Dawn is an excellent survival horror game, offering legitimately tough battles, scary monsters, and some intense resource management. Its retro futuristic 1980s Poland setting creates a combination of brutalist architecture and function over fashion tech that creates a unique setting. The narrative mystery delivers on exciting twists...
Daemon X Machina Titanic Scion shakes off the comparisons to Armored Core by boldly reinventing itself. Instead of chasing bigger mechs, the sequel embraces smaller, faster Arsenals and drops them into an expansive open world packed with enemies, secrets, and massive boss encounters. Whether you’re tinkering with builds in the...
Metal Eden feels like a fantastic rollercoaster, only bogged down by the long line. In this case, that long line is an abundance of story cutscenes and dialogue that only ever exceeded in annoying me. But when you do finally get back into action, that fast-paced platforming and shooting shine...
Do you remember the constant scream of your Tamagotchi? The way it would demand constant attention, and would die if you had the audacity to leave it unattended for more than 5 minutes? Somehow, that horrible loop is more fun than Tamagotchi Plaza—a middling collection of minigames loosely based around...
In a strange society awaiting the end of the world, investigate your own death by navigating five different routes, each with its own genre of gameplay.
Varlet often feels like seeing a cover band trying its best to play all the hits, but never managing to surpass the original. Much of the turn-based RPG feels heavily inspired by other school life RPGs, but fails to capture the same magic, due to a lacking combat system and...
Catto’s Post Office takes the smaller obstacles we all readily face in our daily lives and spotlights these troubles without compromising or diminishing how those small stumbles can still bring us anguish, hurt, moroseness, sadness, and melancholy. With a gorgeous environment alongside a jolly soundtrack, almost like the preschool shows...
Time Flies may be a few hours long, but it leaves you with this sense of quiet grandeur that showcases how the medium of video games continues to evolve and elevate. The game’s impact lasts way after you have discovered all of the game’s little secrets, figured out all of...
SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance takes the almost 40-year-old Shinobi series and completely revitalizes it into the search action genre due to its silky fighting game combos, gratifying maneuvers, sensational tricks, with exemplary and satisfying results abound. Lizardcube, the developers of Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap and Streets of Rage 4,...
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar struggles a bit with its pacing, but the familiar gameplay loop of farming and harvesting crops and such to sell is as fun as ever. It’s perhaps not the strongest entry in the series, but there’s plenty of enjoyment here for series fans or people...
Neverwinter Nights 2 had a mixed reception. Some people believe that Bioware will always be king when it comes to the Dungeons & Dragons licensing of CRPG games, and others believe that Obsidian takes what Bioware does and makes it better. These are arguments of the past, however, as Bioware...
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is the definitive way to play one of the greatest games of all time. Everything that was incredible about the original game is still intact, while the more poorly aged aspects have been polished supremely. This is a master stroke of a remake, and...
