Tag: video game review
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Metaphor: ReFantazio Review- A (Nearly) Unscathed Triumph
It’s tough to walk away from a good thing. I’ve been working at the same company for over 10 years now. I like my job. I think I’m good at it, and it generally takes pretty good care of me. But there have been many times that I wondered what it would be like to…
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My Official Predictions For Game Awards Nominees
It’s almost that time of the year! Game awards season is nearly upon us. As much as I love playing video games all year, discussing which ones are the best is dang near just as fun. It’s great to see different opinions and to see awesome video games get recognized. In recent years, the Game…
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Europa Review: A Few Hours of Respite From A Turbulent World
My wife gets so excited when it starts to rain on a dark summer night. She loves to open the windows and just soak in the peaceful sounds of the raindrops. Sometimes, she reads a book with that noise in the background. Sometimes, she just closes her eyes and takes it in. I operate a…
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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Review- Sometimes I Prefer Diet Coke
As I’ve gotten older, something strange has happened. Something I couldn’t have imagined at all when I was a kid or a teen. There are many times when I’ll drink a diet pop (soda for you non-midwestern heathens) over a “regular” one. Regular pop can just feel overly filling and too sugary. Diet pop goes…
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My Ten Biggest Disagreements With Game Critics This Year (So Far)
One of my biggest “hot takes” is that game critics do a pretty good job overall. If you look at games that don’t have stupid, made-up controversies around them, the critic and consumer consensus is relatively in line for a lot of games. But of course, even for a game critic defender like me, disagreements…
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Why You Should Try To Play Metaphor: ReFantazio On Hard
I like to play on hard difficulty for a lot of games. I want to be tested. I want the intensity. I want to be forced into using everything a game has to offer and not get overly comfortable. I don’t want to just breeze through a game without even trying. But when it comes…
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The Plucky Squire Review: So Charming That It’s No Longer Charming
One of the worst people that you can possibly come across is the guy who thinks he is funnier than he actually is. Every conversation suddenly becomes this persons attempt at a stand-up comedy routine. They love their own humor a little too much. And maybe this person can be funny on occasion, but eventually,…
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Until Then Spoiler Free Review: World Class Ingredients, In The Oven For Too Long
Imagine the best chef in the world. They are on nationally televised cooking shows. If they open a restaurant, it makes headlines. They use the best ingredients that any chef could use. In the end, none of that matters if they leave the meal in the oven for too long. You can do everything else…
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Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth Review- At A Crossroads Of The Past And The Future
Back in 2019, I thought Yakuza: Like A Dragon was one of the most bold games a long-running series could come out with. At that point, the Yakuza series was purely an action/brawler series with seven mainline games and an absolutely iconic protagonist. Deciding to switch heroes and go to a turn based RPG system…
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GRIS Review: How To Rate True Art?
Sometimes, the absurdity of how most of us handle video game reviews is not lost on me. Imagine an art critic going to an art show and assigning each piece a review on a scale of 1-10. For one reason or another, that doesn’t happen. Perhaps there is an understanding that art is above silly…
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