Comedy must be the most difficult thing to write. A weak adventure story can be salvaged to some extent by exciting action sequences and likeable characters, for example. Sometimes, an intricate plot can save a thriller from being cold and clinical to a fault. But comedy? When the jokes don’t …
I don’t think there’s any video game genre quite as timeless as the platformer. They’ve been around for more than 30 years, and the basic ideas have been iterated on heavily in that time, but a simple, well-made, classically-styled platformer is still a wonderful thing. …Wait. This is sounding eerily …
Two of the best visual novels available are coming to PlayStation 4, with NIS America’s announcement of Danganronpa 1•2 Reload. The bundle brings together Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, which have previously only been available for PS Vita and PC, and will hopefully introduce this fantastic series to a whole new audience. …
For me, the premiere of Batman: A Telltale Series last month was a shaky start. It showed potential, especially in its nifty detective sequences and its exploration of Batman’s violence, but the plotline, obsessed with taking every turn to remind players that Bruce Wayne’s parents are dead and he is …
I imported I Am Setsuna earlier this year when it first came out in Japan, though I never got around to playing more than the first couple of hours. Having now played the English version, I’m glad I didn’t play much of the import, because with my cursory understanding of …
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the best LEGO game to date. Aside from using the best Star Wars film (yes, I went there) as its source material, it’s managed to breath new life into the LEGO game formula. The combination of action, adventure, LEGO-based puzzles, and oodles of …
[URIS id=664] Gallery: The beautiful papercraft world of Tearaway Unfolded Depending on where you live, Tearaway Unfolded is either already available, or will be very soon. It’s a very good, very beautiful game from Media Molecule, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet and the original Tearaway for PS Vita. Between the PS4 screenshot function and the in-game …
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 …
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.
I just checked my playtime on Toukiden: Kiwami: 82 hours, 30 minutes. And, somehow, I still feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface. For those not in the know, Toukiden: Kiwami is a hybrid sequel/re-release of Toukiden: The Age of Demons, Omega Force’s (Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors et al.) take …
