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Bound By Flame
The first notes I jotted down as I played Bound by Flame were miserable: “What the hell is going on with the screen resolution? I wish my character would shut her dumb mouth. Oh cool, undead ice guys from the north. Never seen that in a popular fantasy novel or...
“Boo hoo. I'm Spider-Man. I can sprint up skyscrapers, lift cars above my head, I have a nice girlfriend, look great in spandex, live in in an affluent part of New York city with my loving aunt, study at a prestigious university and take pictures for a nationally syndicated newspaper.”...
Child of Light
Aurora doesn’t so much swing her sword at enemies as heave it into the air and drop it on them. It’s bigger than her. But despite her size and this unwieldy weapon, the fate of Lemuria, a hand-painted fairytale world, rests on her tiny shoulders. It’s an RPG in the...
Daylight
You wake in an empty hospital. This is never good. You press forward, squinting into the unknown. Suddenly you hear voices, a giggle from the corner of the room. It’s close - a little too close for someone with only a smartphone, glow stick and flare to defend themselves. A...
There are few things as horrifying as a blood-covered Viking wielding an axe. The two Saxons closing in on me, though, aren’t as intimidated as I’d like. The three of us are the only fighters left alive, and I’m feeling lucky. I lunge and swing my axe sidearm at the...
Dark Souls II
I am not going to die before I get my corpse. I can make it, despite the hordes of hollows lying in the shadows, just waiting to hoist themselves up to my eye level to snack on my face. I used my last estus flask after a fleshy dog-thing lunged...
Trials Fusion
Fusion's thrill isn't in leaping a yawning chasm as a jet screams below, but in simply clearing an overhanging ledge.
A few well-designed systems struggle to overcome lifeless presentation. Capable, but ultimately hard to recommend.
Smite
"They have no idea I'm here," says GamesRadar's Lucas Sullivan as he sneaks up behind two enemy gods in my lane.
Cloudbuilt
Cloudbuilt succeeds where Sonic The Hedgehog has failed for almost two decades.
Ether One
I’d cracked the puzzle: found the to-do list, cleaned the coffee machine and located the Warden’s mug. To complete the memory I just had to place it on his desk, which I did, expectantly. Bugger all happened. Somewhere in Ether One’s story I’d skipped a line, too dense to connect...
