Tag: video game review
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Koira Review- What A Human-Dog Relationship Really Means
There is an entire movement around making sure you can pet the dog in any game that has a dog. Despite all this love for dogs in the video game space, even games that have deep interactions between the human characters never seem to truly capture what the human-dog relationship is actually like. I’m not…
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Cabernet Review- RPG Elements Make Everything Better
Life is a fickle thing that is incomprehensibly different for almost every single person who experiences it. Despite this, there are some undeniable truths to our existence. Life is precious. Life is not fair. You have to love yourself if you want someone else to love you. Touching grass is good. And, of course, the…
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Wanderstop Review- To Relax Or Not To Relax, That Is The Question
A review code for this game was provided by Ivy Road Wanderstop at times feels like it is personally attacking me. In many ways, the game is completely antithetical to who I am as a person and as a gamer. This is a game where you manage a tea shop. That tea shop has no…
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It Takes Two Review- I’d Even Play It With Someone I Only Kind Of Tolerate
Here’s the dirty secret about most games that feature and encourage co-op. Most of these games aren’t actually all that much better from a gameplay perspective because of their co-op features. Yes, there might be ways that the game lets you work together, but you generally don’t actually have to, as these games have to…
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Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist Review- Sad Anime Castlevania
I love the idea of being in a pitch meeting for a game and imagining how the concept of it was sold to a publisher. It’s fun to devolve a game’s concept into a stupidly simple elevator pitch. The way I envision the Ender series being pitched is “imagine a Castlevania game, but make is…
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Final Fantasy IX: Nostalgia Free Review- Just Enough Black Magic
Due to the age of this game, this review contains some spoilers. I tried to keep those spoilers as in check as I could. I first played Final Fantasy IX twenty years ago as a teen. Like many games from that era, I ended up dropping it pretty quickly. Emulating games and having a seemingly…
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Three Early Impressions: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
The number of people who love medieval times has always been fascinating to me. People don’t just love that era from a “history is interesting” perspective. There are entire industries built around feeling like you are living in this era. The Medieval Festival that takes place near me is a major event that so many…
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review- The Man In The Middle
There’s a popular meme out there where two girls are having what looks like an insane fight, and meanwhile, some kid seems to be smoking a bong and having the time of his life watching the fight happen. Dragon Age: The Veilguard makes me feel like that kid. I have watched people fight to the…
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Spoiler Free Review- Mostly Rolling 6’s
A review code for this game was provided by Fellow Traveler I’ve always loved dice mechanics in video games, as I’m not sure if there’s a mechanic that better replicates how real life can be. No matter what you do on any given day, elements of luck follow. Everything is a bit of a dice…
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Review- Timing is Everything
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle makes me think about how silly the human mind is. We all put a lot of importance on our first and last impressions of something or someone. And look, that’s great and all, but it doesn’t always make sense. If I have a lot of great interactions with someone,…
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