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 …
I loved the original Hyrule Warriors a whole heap, in part because I just like Warriors games in general, but mostly because it felt like a celebration of the history of The Legend of Zelda. An admittedly contrived plot paved the way for a whole host of fan-favourite characters to …
I’ve been eagerly looking forward to Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin for what feels like forever. The concept of an action platformer / farming sim hybrid based on Japanese mythology was enough to get my attention when it was first announced back in 2017, but the way developers Edelweiss have …
Running a country is one job I’d never, ever want to have. The level of responsibility, the very real and wide-reaching consequences of your actions, the fact that no matter what you do, you’ll always leave someone feeling let down-—there’s no paycheck on the world that I think could be …
