Category: Reviews
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Mafia: The Old Country Review- A Journey Worth Ignoring The Ending
I have a moderately hot take. People obsess about endings too much, for just about everything. Don’t get me wrong, a powerful ending hits like little else. Many of my favorite moments in a year come when a game absolutely nails an ending. But if a game takes me on an awesome journey, and then…
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Donkey Kong Bananza Review- The Nintendo Rage Room
It seems like rage rooms are becoming more and more popular these days. These are rooms that allow people to destroy a bunch of fragile objects in a safe way. It’s a funny concept to me because when I see clips of people destroying all of the glass objects and other things in these rooms,…
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Discounty Review- A Supermarket Sweep
A review code was provided by Keymailer and PQube Games. One of the most famous pictures of the 1980s has to be of Boris Yeltsin’s trip to a random American grocery store in Houston, Texas, back in 1989 (picture at the bottom of the review). Yeltsin was a Russian politician, which was a communist country…
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Wheel World Review: Tour de Chill
Back during the peak of Lance Armstrong mania, I spent one summer absolutely obsessed with the Tour de France. Some kids have a yoyo phase. Some kids have a scooter phase. I had a “wake up at 6am and watching competitive cycling” phase. The Tour de France is an incredible race. It might be the…
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Review- Craving Tough Love
As someone who reviews almost every game that I play, there’s a point in the process where I kind of start mentally writing my review. Once I’m deep enough in a game, there usually isn’t much that is going to change. The game kind of gets locked into the score and thought process I have…
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DOOM: The Dark Ages Review- The Best DOOM Formula, But Is That Enough?
Modern game developers have truly become masters of the sequel. Almost anytime I play a sequel to a game I liked these days, I know I’m probably in for a great time. It can also be the case when I didn’t care for the first game. Developers seem to be better than ever at getting…
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Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo Review- The Best Brazilian Video Game Inspired By Italian Mafia Sterotypes Ever
I think oftentimes with developers, after we experience one game from them, we tend to put them in a box. If I didn’t like the first game from a developer, my general assumption is that the next game from that same studio isn’t going to be something that is worth my time. We view the…
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Elroy and the Aliens Review: The 1990s Are Still Real To Me, Damn It
The best kind of nostalgia is often the stuff that sneaks up on you. That feeling when you encounter something that you didn’t even realize that you fully had nostalgia for. When I think about games that I played as a kid and in my early teen years, I mostly think about JRPGs. I vividly…
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Cattle Country Review- This Tale Is Not Blossoming
A review code was provided for this game by Keymailer and Playtonic Games Sometimes, there are signs that things aren’t going to go well before you even realize that they are there. As I opened up Cattle Country, a cozy farming sim with a western bent to it, I set out to name my farm.…
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Bionic Bay Review- Let’s Try That Again
I try very hard to avoid using “trial and error” as a major critique when talking about video games. Because inherently, all video games are trial and error if there is any difficulty whatsoever attached to them. When you play a difficult action game where you need to learn enemy attack patterns, there is an…
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