Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age is a huge game, so it’s going to be a while before I’m in a position to publish a review. But even just based on the 10 hours or so I’ve played so far, I’m confident in saying that this is, hands …
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Wadjet Eye consistently puts out some of the best modern point and click adventure games. You can always rely on them to weave a gripping and insightful story, whether it’s the post-apocalyptic musings of Shardlight and Primordia or the ghostly escapades of the Blackwell series. They always deliver classic adventure …
God Wars: The Complete Legend is finally here! It’s not an overly challenging game (unless you’re playing on the higher difficulties) and it does a good job of introducing its various mechanics and systems. That said, there are a lot of very useful things that are easy to overlook. Here …
By Naly_D Over the past week, I’ve been reviewing Madden 19. On Sunday night I summed up my final thoughts, and got ready to submit it. On Monday morning I woke up to horrific news—a shooting at a Madden tournament in the United States. The review will be delayed out …
This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s played the first game, but La-Mulana 2 is hard. Tricky platforming and cryptic puzzles will stretch your reactions and problem-solving ability, while cruel traps await any adventurer who gets to reckless. La-Mulana 2 may be more streamlined in its design, but …
Among the more interesting of MAD magazine’s recurrent gags are “fold-ins”. The back cover of almost every issue since 1964 had an image, with points at the edge of the page marked A and B. By folding the page so that those two points met, you’d reveal another hidden image, …
Party games are plentiful, but great party games are rare. It takes more than just cute characters and local multiplayer. You need something that’s easy for someone brand new to pick up, but deep enough to stay interesting over however many days, weeks, months, or years people are playing. You …
Though it’s not billed as such, Omensight is very much a sequel to Spearhead Games’ Stories: The Path of Destinies: it’s set in the same wartorn fantasy world, tells a similar time-hopping story, and shares the same action RPG mechanics and Groundhog Day-esque game structure. But Omensight takes those good …
I’d be fascinated to see the design documents for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (and for the first game as well, while we’re at it.) For a game with such expansive, detailed lore and such a complicated web of choices and consequences, the paperwork just for planning everything out must …
What does romantic love mean to you? That’s a question that Solo wants you to think about—to really, really think about. What would you sacrifice for love? What does love look like? What does love feel like? Have you ever truly been in love? Will you ever love again? Solo …