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When I see “Compile Heart,” I usually know what to expect. This company is best known for modestly-produced RPGs that pick a lane and stomp on the gas, recklessly driving a chosen gimmick like a car in oncoming traffic. There’s the silly parodies (Hyperdimension Neptunia), the irredeemably horny (Record of...
There's joy to be found in the basic idea of package delivery. There's the basic task of getting a package to its intended recipient with video games opening the door to take that idea to absurd levels. Deliver At All Costs, from Konami and Swedish developer Far Out Games, is...
Developer Shiny Shoe first released Monster Train back in 2020. Dropped in the middle of the COVID-19 lockdown, the deckbuilding roguelite rapidly found an audience of card enthusiasts and Slay the Spire-style adventure seekers. The game continues to draw players to this day, but Shiny Shoe's runaway train has reached...
MercurySteam and I don’t tend to get along. I found its Castlevania series interesting at first, but ultimately a whiff. And its take on Metroid is perhaps the most impressive effort in Missing The Point I've ever seen in a video game. But there’s no denying this studio has a...
Roadcraft, Saber Interactive's latest entry in the "drive through the mud to rebuild or tear things down" simulator genre, will feel instantly familiar to fans of MudRunner and SnowRunner. However, Roadcraft confidently stands on its own, offering a fresh approach to each scenario while lowering the barrier to entry for...
The Capcom Fighting Collections, Arcade Classics, Beat 'Em Up Bundles, and more have been pretty good up to this point, but there’s still so many amazing Capcom games and fighters that haven’t been available in reasonable form up to this point. Fortunately, another basket of gems is almost here in...
The creation of The Midnight Walk is an interesting story in itself. According to its developer, MoonHood, every single asset within the game was first handcrafted with real clay before being placed and animated into the game world. That level of passion is easily seen and felt not just in...
Tempest Rising is happy to play it safe. That's fine, sometimes. Games don't have to constantly innovate or be daring to make themselves interesting. However, Tempest Rising takes so few risks and does so little with the real-time strategy formula that it's hard not to see it as a missed...
A pumping soundtrack. The sounds of endless bullets. Naughty words that start with “eff” and rhyme with “pluck.” Yep, it’s time for a Devolver Digital-ass Devolver Digital review. Hopefully this one’s better than Anger Foot.
Before Skin Deep came across my desk, I had never even heard of it. That’s not to say there’s anything wrong, but that I went in completely blind. What is this game? Who knows, let’s just boot this bad boy up and see what happens. That’s probably for the best,...
When Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka and Zero Escape/AI: Somnium Files creator Kotaro Uchikoshi formed (with other industry legends like composer Masafumi Takada) Too Kyo Games, fans of both series wondered if these modern visual novel/adventure game legends would collaborate. It took a while, but that day has finally come. The...
Garou: Mark of the Wolves came out in 1999. Now, it’s not like SNK fans have been starved to see their favorite characters. Terry Bogard and the Fatal Fury crew have shown up in plenty of King of Fighters games, and even crossed over to other franchises like (most recently)...
