Category: Reviews
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Cat Quest 3 Review: Cats Have Claws
After playing two good but unspectacular cat games in the past few years (Stray and Little Kitty, Big City), I started to stereotype cat games. If I’m playing as a cat in your game, I started to feel like I knew exactly what to expect. Cat games resemble… cats shockingly. They’re cute and quirky. And…
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Star Wars Outlaws Review: The Adventure of a Lifetime… Not Necessarily the Video Game of a Lifetime
Video games are an interesting experience because they are so multifaceted. Playing a video game can at times be akin to watching a full season of a TV show. Sometimes it’s like sitting down and listening to a new album. And the actual video game element can be dramatically different depending on what genre you…
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Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus Review- Brilliant and Questionable
The worst scenario you can encounter as a gamer is that gamebreaking bug. The bug that forces you to lose hours upon hours of progress, or perhaps that doesn’t let you complete the game you are playing at all. It’s a rare scenario, but any grizzled vet will have at least one horror story. When…
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TMNT: Splintered Fate Review- Baby’s First Roguelite
I feel like gamers are always overusing certain games as comparison points. We use the most popular games in a genre to help describe just about everything, sometimes to a ridiculous effect. Every difficult video game seems to be a “soulslike” these days. Any big open world game without tons of objective markers is like…
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Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes Review- Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In
I could talk about Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes for hours. I could write about it for days. This is one of the most fascinating video games I have ever played. I say that because Eiyuden is a game of incredible extremes. I’ve never played a game where, seemingly, everything about it is either fantastic, jank,…
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Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (2024) Review: Ahead of Its Time, Yet Still in the Past
Whenever I see complaints about video game remakes, I like to remind people that video games are still a relatively new artform. It might be ridiculous for Hollywood to come out with a remake on a movie that came out in 2004. But for video games? Video games were something like a teenager at that…
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The Case of the Golden Idol Review: I’m a Detective, Damn It (Xbox Version)
Video games allow us to truly feel like someone else for a while in a way no other medium can. I truly felt like a master swordsman when playing Rise of the Ronin earlier this year. I could have sworn I was actually on vacation when I was playing Dungeons of Hinterberg a week ago.…
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Dungeons of Hinterberg Review: When Ambition Meets Execution
I was overcome by an interesting feeling each time I booted up Dungeons of Hinterberg for this past week. At times, I felt like I was playing something incredibly familiar. Each time I dove into one of the games’ titular dungeons, I almost could have sworn I was playing a Zelda game. Each time I…
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Rolling Hills Review: Delicious and Occasionally Overfilling
I have a weird relationship with cozy games. I like them in theory, as they often have stealth RPG elements at the very least. Multiple games that are amongst my top 50 all time are cozy games (Harvest Moon 64, Stardew Valley, and Littlewood). But a lot of the slow starts and general sameness that…
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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Review- Imagine the Unimaginable
Having someone that you truly love is one of the best feelings in the world. It’s amazing to look over at your partner and know that you are on this journey of life with them at your side till the end. Of course, there are lows, but if you are in a good relationship, there…
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