Nier: Automata is one of the best games you’ll ever play, combining PlatinumGames action expertise with the mad genius of Yoko Taro. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is one of the best, most important books ever written. Not just because it gave birth to the science fiction and horror genres, but …
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Horizon Zero Dawn is a remarkable achievement in world-building, but it undermines that with a weak story and too much open-world bloat. If you want to get the most out of Horizon Zero Dawn, my advice is to avoid all main story content as long as possible. Just take every …
Rise and Shine is beautiful, funny, and surprisingly thought-provoking, but a dated approach to difficulty makes it more frustrating than it should be. A lot of people seem to look back on NES games and their infamous difficulty with rose-tinted glasses. They remember hours and hours spent sorting in front …
Horizon Zero Dawn is almost upon us. It was a surprising announcement at E3 2015; a lush, beautiful open-world RPG from a studio who’d made nothing but gritty first-person shooters for the past ten years. True to big-budget marketing form, we’ve been kept on a steady stream of information to …
Like every other Kingdom Hearts fan, I’ve been desperately waiting for Kingdom Hearts III. Like every other Kingdom Hearts fan, my heart sank when Square Enix used Tokyo Game Show 2015 not to reveal more information about Kingdom Hearts III, but to announce another stopgap: the awkwardly-named Kingdom Hearts HD …
We’ve got a copy of Sniper Elite 4 to give away on PlayStation 4, thanks to Rebellion Developments and GDE Distribution. Sniper Elite 4 is one of the best stealth games I’ve played in a long time, with huge, detailed levels and plenty of freedom to improvise and get creative with your approach. …
Sniper Elite is my guilty pleasure. I know, conventional wisdom says there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure – “like what you like, without guilt”. There’s an element of truth in that, but it’s a more complicated issue and one that’s worth unpacking. Sniper Elite 3 was a game …
When it first came out, Gravity Rush was one of the most original, unique takes on the action-adventure game. In a genre so bloated, it takes something special to stand out, and Gravity Rush had that in spades, with its clever gravity shifting mechanic and beautiful world. There hasn’t been …
Gurumin 3D: A Monstrous Adventure feels old. Well, it is old – this is a 3DS port of a game that first came out in 2004 – but it feels even older. I don’t mean it feels dated, because it certainly doesn’t, but that it has the look, feel, and …
A little while ago, an animation popped up in my Twitter feed that captivated me. It was a simple loop, showing a group of fireflies flitting around a shrine in the forest, but it was mesmerising. I soon learned about the game it came from: Miyamori, an action-adventure platformer that aims to …