Category: Reviews
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Astro Bot Review: Bubble Wrap, Magic Shows, And Core Memories
If you play video games as an adult, odds are you played video games as a child. All gamers have a few games from their childhood that unlock some serious core memories. When you remember those times, you will, of course, remember playing whatever game it is that you are thinking about. But it goes…
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Crypt Custodian Review: In The Right Place At The Right Time
Timing is everything. Usually, this has a bit of a negative connotation for video games. I hear many stories about people playing a game that they didn’t love at the time because they just weren’t in the right headspace for it. Oftentimes, after another try down the line, those same people end up loving the…
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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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