Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time mostly lives up to its goal of recapturing what made the original Crash trilogy so beloved, but some of that magic gets lost in a misguided approach to difficulty. Crash Bandicoot has been through a lot. Once an iconic mascot for PlayStation and a …
I should start this WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship review with a disclaimer: I know next to nothing about the World Rally Championship or rallying in general, and when it comes to racing games, I lean heavily towards the Mario Karts and Burnouts of this world. I say this …
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is a game you’ll either love or hate. In classic roguelike fashion, the whims of luck can be cruel, unforgiving, and downright unfair. One bad toss of the dice is all it takes to bring a dungeon delve …
When it comes to psychological horror games with a deeply atmospheric surreal bent, few can match Bloober Team. Layers of Fear and Layers of Fear 2 are fine examples of that, delving as they do into the fractured psyche of an artist and filmmaker, respectively, but Observer might just be …
After two iterations of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy and Theatrhythm Dragon Quest, it was only a matter of time before Kingdom Hearts got its own rhythm game spinoff. Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory is that game, and though it doesn’t carry “Theatrhythm” in its name, the legacy of those other games …
Overcooked! All You Can Eat brings the frantic cooking action of Overcooked! to the new generation with some welcome new levels and features. Ghost Town Games’ Overcooked!, first released in 2016, took a clever, unique concept and delivered it to perfection. A frantic, hilarious party game that sees players trying …
PlayStation 5 brings Sackboy, the burlap hero of Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet series, into a new dimension. In the hands of Sumo Digital, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet 3, Sackboy: A Big Adventure puts a 3D platformer spin on things, with all the colourful creativity of its precursors. It’s missing a little …
Instead of trying to “fix” what isn’t broken, the PS5 remake of Demon’s Souls brings the original’s eerie, oppressive atmosphere and unrefined charm to life better than ever. Before the runaway success of Dark Souls, before all the “git gud” and the “it’s the Dark Souls of [x]”, there was …
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is a welcome PlayStation 5 touch-up to one of the better blockbuster hits on PS4, and a nice accompaniment to the cross-generation Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Both games benefit greatly from Sony’s newest console. Marvel’s Spider-Man, first released in 2018 for PlayStation 4, is one of the …
Like The Playroom and The Playroom VR before it, Astro’s Playroom exists, first and foremost, as a showcase of what a new piece of hardware can do. All three games come free with their respective systems (PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, and PlayStation 5), with gameplay designed around showing off what …
