Troll and I tries to channel both Tomb Raider and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, and ends up living up to neither of those inspirations. Troll and I feels like two very different games rolled into one. On the one hand, it’s a “single-player co-op” game in the vein …
I’ve been cautiously optimistic about Uncharted: The Lost Legacy since it was first announced last December. I’m clearly in the minority, but I was really disappointed by Uncharted 4 and the way it abandoned the series’ trademark sense of fun and character for a hollow attempt at telling a “serious” story. Its worst problem, …
I love PaRappa the Rapper, so I hate to have to say this, but PaRappa the Rapper Remastered is even more broken than the 20-year-old original. I love PaRappa the Rapper. It was one of my favorite games as a kid. I played it to death on PlayStation, and did …
It can be hard to know where to begin with a franchise as storied as Ys, but the PS4 release of Ys Origin makes a great starting point. There have been plenty of Ys games released in the series’ 30-year history, but you could be forgiven for having never played …
Cyberpunk adventure, a clever take on dystopia, a brutal Metroidvania, and a VR game that doubles as a documentary. Enjoy these bite-sized reviews. 2064: Read Only Memories (PS4) 2064: Read Only Memories is something of an anachronistic oddity: it’s a retro-styled point and click adventure game, set in a cyberpunk future, …
Leaving Lyndow is a teaser for the forthcoming Eastshade, but it’s also a delightful game in its own right, about the complex feelings of leaving home. It’s hard to describe Leaving Lyndow, because I’m still not sure what, exactly, it is. I know what it is in reductive mechanical terms, …
A Rose in the Twilight is a dark fairy tale puzzle platformer that’s beautiful, violent, bleak, and uplifting, all at the same time. Masayuki Furuya is quickly making a name for himself as a game designer worth paying attention to, at least for people who enjoy abstract, artistic games. He …
Styx: Shards of Darkness is one of the best stealth games in a long time, and that’s only made better by its gross yet endearing goblin hero. Having never played the previous game, I didn’t know what to expect from Styx: Shards of Darkness. I was intrigued by the idea …
March 2017 was absolutely ridiculous for game releases. It’s like every publisher suddenly simultaneously realised that if they release in March, those sales can give them a last-minute boost before the end of the financial year. The end result was an onslaught of games – many of them excellent – that …
Danganronpa 1・2 Reload doesn’t add anything new, but it does bring together two of the finest games of the last few years in one neat package. Danganronpa is one of the best franchises in gaming. It’d be easy to write it off as a simple visual novel / adventure game …
