Disclosure: I previously worked with eastasiasoft in a freelance capacity on Rainbow Moon. I have had no involvement in the development of Lost Sea. Lost Sea is the sort of game that reminds me why I don’t really like roguelikes all that much – because of both what it does well …
With its original 3DS release back in 2014 (well, early 2015 for New Zealand), Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse was the first Shantae game I’d played. I was somewhat familiar with the franchise just through general exposure and my fondness of some other WayForward games I’d played, but I didn’t …
Coming out very late in the PlayStation 2’s life cycle, Odin Sphere perhaps didn’t get as much attention as it deserved. It was a critical darling (and rightly so) and sold fairly well, but it was niche game fighting against a newly-released PlayStation 3 and all the hype that goes …
Shadwen is an interesting game. It’s not necessarily a good game, but it’s certainly an interesting one, which makes it a curious game to review. It’s so unpolished in its current state that I couldn’t in any right mind recommend it to someone looking for high-quality entertainment, but it’s so …
I can’t remember the last time I played a game with as much commitment to a central idea as Life Goes On: Done to Death. This is a game with a devilishly simple core hook, but the way every single other aspect of the game ties into it makes this …
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 …
Playing through Dragon Quest for the first time in 2015 was a weird experience. It’s a game that hasn’t exactly aged well, but somehow, that made it a fascinating and rewarding experience. It’s a snapshot of the early days of console RPGs, an insight into where many of the genres standards originated. Despite …
Despite what you’ve probably heard from a lot of folks on the Internet, and despite Sony apparently having all but given up on it, the PlayStation Vita is a really great handheld with an awesome library. With the likes of Danganronpa, Persona 4 Golden, Tearaway, OlliOlli, and Killzone: Mercenary (which …
If you eat meat, you need to get yourself to McDonald’s and try the Serious Angus 1/4lb. Seriously. It’s no secret that I’m a fan of McDonald’s (and of burgers in general, really), but I often find their “limited edition” burgers wanting. Sometimes they’re awful (like that McRib abomination), usually …
Drop what you’re doing and go see Magic Mike XXL right now. There it is. That’s my review. Okay, that’s not the whole review, but it’s the most important part, because it’s kind of hard to do the film justice with words alone. Before seeing it I heard so many good …
