The Longest Five Minutes looks like your typical JRPG, only it starts at the final boss. Our party has travelled the world, fought a great many monsters, made friends, helped people, and now they’re finally ready to take on the Demon King. And then, just as the battle starts, …
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It feels like arcade-style racing games have somewhat fallen to the wayside lately, but fans of those delightfully unrealistic takes on motorsport have a couple of new things to look forward to this year: a remaster of the critically-acclaimed Burnout Paradise by Criterion, and Codemasters’ Onrush. Originally released in 2009, Burnout Paradise brought …
Being a sequel, SteamWorld Dig 2 was necessarily focused on improving upon everything that made its predecessor work. It was incredibly successful at that—as I said in my review—had the side effect of giving me an urge to play the original SteamWorld Dig again. I re-downloaded the PS Vita version …
Dynasty Warriors 9 feels like the game that Omega Force has been wanting to make since the series’ birth. They’ve finally got the budget and technology to really capture the grandiose epic of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and to convey that feeling of being a soldier on the …
I’m pleasantly surprised at how much I’m enjoying Dissidia Final Fantasy NT. I wasn’t a big fan of the previous Dissidia games, and this one’s 3-on-3 focus certainly didn’t fit with my general dislike for team-based multiplayer games. Perhaps more significantly, I have a weird bias against Dissidia at a …
Shadow of the Colossus is one of the most remarkable achievements of the video game art form. That was true in 2005, when it first came out on PlayStation 2. It was still true in 2011, when it got ported to PlayStation 3 alongside its predecessor, Ico. And it remains …
Dragon Ball FighterZ feels like two very different games rolled into one, depending on what angle you approach it from. If you come at it as Dragon Ball Z fan first and foremost, you can look forward to one of the best licensed games to date, with a wealth of …
Will O’Neill’s Little Red Lie is a challenging game. I don’t mean that the way people usually do when they describe a game as “challenging”—after all, there’s very little traditional “gameplay” here. No, Little Red Lie‘s difficulty comes through the ideas it explores and the way it explores them: it’s …
Among the numerous indie gems that launched on Nintendo Switch last year was a little beat ’em up called Wulverblade. Set in AD 140, it follows the efforts of a handful of Celtic warriors to stop Rome’s invasion into northern Britannia, through cartoonishly violent, bloody combat. Following its warm reception on …
Street Fighter V was an odd beast when it launched two years ago. The fighting itself was fantastic and the multiplayer infrastructure was good, but there was precious little on offer for people uninterested in duking it out with other players. A few extra game features and game modes …