Last month, indie developer Benny Heller released Arachnowopunk, a single-button, infinite-runner metroidvania. It’s a concept that doesn’t sound like it should work—the defining features of the genre are a variety of different abilities that improve your ability to explore, and the freedom of movement to actually do that exploring. How …
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 is everything a remake of two of the most highly-regarded games of all time needed to be. It’s everything that made the originals so great in the first place, faithfully recreated in high definition, but it’s also not a game that feels trapped …
Röki is something beautiful. It’s a tale of grand adventure through a stunning Scandinavian wilderness home to trolls and giants, but also an intimate, personal story of coping with grief. It’s an enchanting original fairy tale that wouldn’t feel at all out of place alongside the works of Hans Christian …
Movement is a crucial part of any superhero’s identity. I think you could take a picture of just about any reasonably well-known character in motion and reduce them to a stick figure, and they’d still be just as recognisable. It’s no surprise, then, that the best superhero games are those …
The original Seiken Densetsu 3 (now known officially in the West as Trials of Mana) is one of my favourite Super Famicom games. When murky corners of the internet introduced me to fan-translations in the early 2000s, a found a whole new world of games I thought I’d never have …
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Fighting games are hard. They’re tests of a lot of things, all at one: execution, game knowledge, quick thinking, decision-making under pressure, creativity. In a multiplayer setting—which is what fighting games really are designed for, at heart—two players go head to head to test all of those abilities, and nine …
At least in concept, Hero must die. again is a fascinating game. Conceived as a sort of “anti-RPG”, it starts where most RPGs should end: you, at max level and with the best equipment available, beating the final boss. Unfortunately, you die in the fight, but in recognition of your …
If there’s one message in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it’s this: slow the hell down. In a time when trying to rush through a game and see everything it has to offer as quickly as possible—not least of all because there’s a million other games queued up to play afterwards—here’s …
I can’t remember the last time a videogame broke my heart the way A Fold Apart did. Don’t be fooled by the cute, cartoony presentation; this is a raw, honest, haunting look at the challenges that come with a long-distance relationship. By the time the credits rolled, I was an …
A few years ago, I would have told you that a remake of Final Fantasy VII would never happen—that the sheer scope of such a project would make it impossible. A few months ago, I would have told you that Final Fantasy VII Remake had little hope of living up …
