The Zelda-inspired action-adventure game Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm is coming to Switch this northern fall / southern spring, after being exclusively available on Apple Arcade for almost a year. Oceanhorn 2 is a prequel to the very good Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas, which first came out …
I can’t think of a better game to ring in Halloween than Luigi’s Mansion 3. Sure, there are scarier games out there, and that’s what a lot of people look for at this time of year, but growing up on the likes of The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Addams …
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 …
“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 …
Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the Necrodancer feat. The Legend of Zelda is a bold new direction for Nintendo. This is a company known for being fiercely protective of its intellectual property, but it saw fit to lend one of its most precious franchises to a small indie developer from …
Shadow of the Tomb Raider was always going to struggle to reach the heights of its predecessors. Rise of the Tomb Raider in particular, in the way it explored the nuances of Lara’s obsessive behaviour and the impact of that on everyone around her, was much smarter than I think …
God of War is a game with an identity crisis. It’s a very good game in a lot of ways, but its bold aspirations are constantly at odds with the expectations that come from being a triple-A game carrying the God of War brand. It’s a game that desperately wants …
“Avast me hearties, prepare to let loose the cannons!” It’s been a few years since the Johnny Depp made pirates “cool” again, which means it’s about time for a mainstream revival. Sea of Thieves first popped up on my radar after a bunch of Twitch streamers began playing it, and …
Amid all the high-profile releases we’ve seen so far this year, we’ve also had plenty of indie games that seem to fly under the radar. Here are my thoughts on a few that I’ve been playing: the puzzle-platformer Speer, a NES-style action adventure game called The Quest for BIG KEY, …
Moss is the best virtual reality game yet. That’s a big call to make, I know—and I make it without having played every VR game ever made—but I stand by it. A lot of VR games make neat ways to use the technology, a lot look to tell familiar …
