Tag: video game review
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Review- Greatness Inspires Greatness
How do you respond when you encounter greatness? Across any field, greatness can either be something that evokes feelings of inspiration or it can completely demoralize you. Almost every great artist had someone that came before them that pushed them to reach the level that they ended up at. There are many others who we…
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Promise Mascot Agency Review- The Yakuza Standalone “Minigame” You’ve Been Waiting For
If you have ever played a Yakuza or Like a Dragon game, you know that in that series, sometimes the minigames are actually the game. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that I often spend 1/3rd of my time in those games just playing minigames. Each game also has one “minigame” that feels…
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Split Fiction Review- The Bar Is Raised One More Time
After winning Game of the Year at The Game Awards in 2021, I imagine that there was a lot of pressure on Hazelight studios for their next game. It Takes Two was one of the craziest and balls to the wall games I have ever played. One upping that was always going to be a…
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Avowed Review- Completely Expected In The Most Unexpected Way
I’ve often joked that Obsidian is my ultimate 8/10 machine. If they put out a game, I’m probably going to give it an 8/10. I don’t view this as derogatory at all. I generally love their games. They are well-made experiences that often bring something interesting to the table. But they’ve also never quite been…
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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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