Tag: video game review
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Dispatch Is Showing Me The Value Of Waiting
I despise waiting. Whenever I see a line at a store, I’m willing to do whatever it takes to avoid it. I hate sitting in the waiting room at my dentist. I hate being in drive-thrus if there are any cars in front of me. I stopped buying physical video games because the ability to…
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My Thoughts on Hades 2 and Ghost of Yotei
I’ve said this many times, but for anyone who loves video games, we might genuinely be in the best era of all time right now. There are quality games coming out damn near every week these days, and the increasing number of talented indie developers add hundreds of awesome new games to the mix that…
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Hollow Knight: Silksong Reflections and Review- You Never Forget Your First
Back when I was 25, I was enjoying my life in many ways. After some tumultuous times in my early 20s, it felt like everything was heading in a really good direction. I spent several years not exactly sure what I would do with my life after I realized that my college major of journalism…
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The Drifter Spoiler-Free Review- A Cinematic And Thrilling… Point And Click Adventure???
I’ve liked point and click games ever since I was a young child, and I enjoyed rediscovering the genre earlier this year with Elroy and the Aliens. But for all of the good aspects of this genre, it’s not exactly one I would call exciting or thrilling from a storytelling perspective. These games tend to…
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Silksong Is Going To Be The First Soulslike I Ever Complete, Even If It Kills Me
Note: If your main thought on this piece is “BUT SILKSONG ISN’T A SOULSLIKE,” I literally do not care. It’s close enough. Touching grass is so important in these trying times. I have a weird relationship with soulslikes. I tend to enjoy them, but only to a certain point. Depending on the game, I usually…
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Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream Review- Sneaky Good
The beauty of stealth games to me is that they are inherently puzzle games with another level of intensity attached to them. Stealth games often involve problem solving on the fly and using all of your tools to get through each level. Unlike most puzzle games, stealth games also tend to have multiple solutions to…
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One Post, Three Reviews: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, Sword of the Sea, and Is This Seat Taken?
I seem to complete something like 40 games a year on average. That seems like a crazy number, especially considering that I am a working father. But the key to reaching that lofty number of completions oftentimes just boils down to the fact that I play a lot of shorter games. A good chunk of…
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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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