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Turbo Golf Racing is a great racing game and an all right golfing experience. It’s got an appealing visual style and music and it’s a casual title that’s easy to pick up and play but it’s also hard to master. There’s lots of customisation you can unlock to stand out...
Every one of the fights and combat sequences I played through felt like a boss-level face off in some way. It always felt like a true survive-or-die moment – all or nothing. It’s the only time in my entire gaming memory, that I can remember being so in the moment...
This game isn’t a long experience, instead the game encourages players to replay the main path and unlock all of the game’s available endings. Mirages are your key to opening different “worlds” so to speak and you will be able to purchase them with the game’s available currency as you...
Revisiting Braid: Anniversary Edition has been a nice nostalgic experience for me, having not played the original since I fully completed it back in 2008. I was amazed at how some solutions had been completely forgotten by my aging brain, and it was lovely to get that feeling of being...
The game’s cut-throat pacing will certainly excite the hardcore players, but the lack of real breaks, meaningful exploration, and worldbuilding makes WRATH: Aeon of Ruin more of a shooting exercise than an actual memorable experience. I still feel like recommending it, maybe on sale, to skilled players looking for a...
Indika
There isn’t a lot of music in the game, but what is there are mostly more modern-sounding synths and a mix of old-timey videogame chiptunes. The game is set in an alt-history that imitates 130 years ago made those choices feel a bit odd. Like with most of their choices...
The game’s music is fantastic. It’s a smooth mix of jazzy pianos and light melodies that had me bopping during combat and relaxed during exploration. Bug-wise I ran into a few issues with getting stuck in the environment. The game has a built-in solution where it will just plop you...
Speaking of cutscenes, this game has a lot of dialogue, available in English and Japanese voiceovers. I stuck with English and enjoyed the main cast’s performance, though I did take issue with voice direction at times. Rao especially, as sometimes he’d be yelling in situations that don’t call for it,...
MyCareer has a “podcast” that rambles on every time you’re in a menu, and it’s terrible. It feels like at most points this game had a shoestring budget, either that or John McEnroe’s “TopSpin Academy” voiceover ate it all up. He’ll walk you through the basics of the sport and...
Tales of Kenzera: Zau is a triumphant debut for Surgent Studios. At $20, and available on day one for PlayStation+ subscribers, any fan of the action-platformer genre would do well to check it out. Zau’s journey through loss will stick with me for a long time, and the excellent gameplay...
With the Kickstarter long behind, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes was easily worth the backing fee, my copy coming in just last Friday. I was skeptical, as stories with enormous casts don’t always fare well in pacing—but great combat, excellent visuals, and an entertaining story about rising from the ruins of...
Harold Halibut
If you’re expecting more action and puzzles, then boy, you might bounce right off this one once you’ve finished gawking at how pretty it all is. My advice? Take it slow, and enjoy every moment with this bizarre and eccentric cast of characters. Games like Harold Halibut don’t come around...
