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The First Berserker: Khanzan misses the mark when it comes to difficulty, creating spongey boss fights that take far too long, regardless of how good you get. These tanky fights weigh down an otherwise great experience, with a reactive and fun combat experience that asks you to maximize your perfect...
Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land suffers from a complete lack of friction. Its systems feel designed to be easy to engage with, but that results in a lack of depth. For an experience as long as this one, that easy reading quickly turns into tedium....
In a lot of ways Japan has always felt like Ubisoft’s break glass in case of emergency for Assassin’s Creed. The setting was teased in the very first game in the franchise and since then has more or less been the most sought after setting. Ubisoft however, has felt more...
Ron Swanson once said, “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” Merchants of Rosewall wants to be a cozy store simulator. It wants to be a cozy small town with a dark mystery to unravel game. It tries to be both of those things and does neither of them well....
It’s been three monotonous years since Michelle and her ex broke up and she isn’t taking it well. It doesn’t help that her ex appears on a popular soap everyone on her block watches. But Michelle perseveres, working her dead-end job and talking to people around the neighborhood. That all...
Knights in Tight Spaces tries to marry a few too many ideas together, resulting in clashing systems. The set in stone narrative and campaign-style of each run results in you seeing the same levels with the same enemies far too frequently, and a brutal economy in each run prevents you...
Find true love and escape from a tragic time loop in Never 7, a classic visual novel now remastered and available in English for the first time.
I have no nostalgia for PC-88 visual novel games. I grew up at the perfect time to play them but, alas, I’m just some silly American rube. My background comes from King’s Quest and Wolfenstein, I didn’t have access to the NEC 8-bit home computer device. Back then, I didn’t...
If there’s one thing I love, it’s managing a scurvy crew. Football Manager, for example, is one of my favorite series, and nobody has more scurvy than a bunch of English soccer players except, of course, pirates. Rogue Waters presents the familiar roguelike formula of semi-random gameplay with pirate flavored...
Experience a classic visual novel with a clever sci-fi story in the new remaster of Ever 17: The Out of Infinity.
Monster Hunter Wilds walks a tight rope, offering the most approachable Monster Hunter experience to date, while still finding ways to give veterans of the series more to chew on. This balancing act is successful, with new focus attacks giving smart ways to target monster parts while adding another tool...
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection is a fantastic grouping of several iconic Yu-Gi-Oh! games from across the series’ beginnings. The games themselves largely hold up quite well and the newly added features are more than welcome. If you’ve ever wanted to play the older portable Yu-Gi-Oh! games, this is the...
