On paper, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture should be a game that’s exactly up my alley. I like exploration games, I like experimental games, I like games with a strong focus on narrative and worldbuilding. Rapture is all of these things, and yet I found it frustrating and, ultimately, unrewarding. The main …
There’s something special about going back and experiencing old games with fresh eyes. I’m not talking about revisiting childhood staples, though that is great too, but playing games for the first time that are 10, 20, even 30 years old. Some games buckle under the weight of their age, others hardly …
I really want to like Toren. It has a lot going for it – an interesting premise, a promising heroine, gorgeous art direction, and absolutely fantastic music. But it falls flat in just about every other regard, making its missed potential the thing that stands out most.
Less than two months ago, I had next to no interest in baseball beyond an (admittedly unsubstantiated) opinion that it was a better bat-and-ball game than cricket. Then, something happened. On April 2, two new games were added to the PlayStation Store. Well, more than two games were added, but …
