Dragon Ball Fusions takes Dragon Ball back to its roots, in terms of both a rich history of RPGs and the early manga’s quirky satire. Most Dragon Ball games are fighting games, especially in the last 20 years or so. That makes sense, what with it being a martial arts …
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 …
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 …
It’s been a long time since I’ve really enjoyed a Tales game. There was a time when it was one of it favorite series’, but the last one that really hooked me was Tales of Eternia on PSP – and even that was a re-release of a much older game. …
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 …
Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is a timely reminder of the power that fantasy stories can have to explore real-world issues. Fantasy and science-fiction have a long history of taking on things like class conflict and racism through metaphor, but it seems to often fall short, especially in video games. I …
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 …
In a world full of retro-styled JRPG throwbacks it’s hard for a game to stand out, but Norwegian indie studio Snowcastle Games found a way with Earthlock: Festival of Magic. It’s a game that’s heavily inspired by the RPGs of the ‘90s, but instead of banking everything on nostalgia, there’s …
October 2016 will see the launch of not one but two Final Fantasy games that I’ve wanted for decades, since long before they were ever in development; since they were just childhood daydreams that I never thought I’d see come to life. One of these is World of Final Fantasy, the other is the Final …
