I think most people would agree that having old games available on current hardware is generally a good thing—not just from the perspective of preserving the medium’ history, but also just for the sake of allowing people to revisit old favourites and new audiences to discover those classics for the …
The original Root Letter is a remarkable game. I said as much when I reviewed it back in 2017, and everything I said then remains true today. It’s a stunning piece of digital tourism that takes players to a meticulous re-creation of a part of Japan that most foreign visitors …
Indivisible feels like it is a game made personally for me. Three of my favourite game genres are RPGs, fighting games, and Metroidvanias; Indivisible is a Metroidvania RPG with a combat system and character designs that draw a lot of inspiration from fighting games. (Coming from the developers behind Skullgirls, …
Concrete Genie might be one of my favourite games of the year so far. In an industry that’s obsessed with content, it’s so refreshing to play a game that takes a simple idea and delivers on it beautifully, without trying to be more than what it needs to be. And …
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age was one of the real highlights of last year. In a time when many JRPGs seem to be either trying to aggressively “modernise” or deliberately channeling nostalgia, here was a game that felt timeless right out of the gate. It stayed true …
I’m glad that Final Fantasy VIII is finally getting the recognition it always deserved. It was the black sheep of the series for a while thanks to some of its more experimental elements, but it seems to have grown on people in the years since (or, perhaps, I just follow …
“Surrealism” isn’t generally the first thing to come to mind when I think of The Legend Zelda as a series, but it’s certainly been a defining element of Link’s Awakening ever since it’s original release for Game Boy in 1993. Where your typical Zelda game sees Link trying save Princess …
Rightly or wrongly, almost all of the discussion around Omega Labyrinth Life has been focused on its controversial approach to sexual content. After all, the whole premise of the series is about exploring dungeons with women whose breasts get bigger and bigger as they accumulate “omega power” and get stronger. …
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden was, I think, one of the most overlooked games of last year. A lot of those who played it rave about it, and it reviewed well, but it seems to have been little more than a blip on the radar for the majority of …
In the shadow of Mount Morta, in an old mansion made only more beautiful by the moss and ivy climbing its walls, live the Bergsons. They look the part of any typical family of relative hermits: three generations living together under one roof, working together to mind their home, hunting …