There is nothing as simple as a racing game, at least on the surface. You start at one place and have to reach the next place faster than everyone else. Filling in the rest of the details is what makes racing such a versatile genre. A quality racing game is also one of the best […]
“I’ll Do Better At Darkest Dungeon After Completing Bravely Default 2,” Proven To Be Unimaginably False
Ah, yes. After many hours and endless nights of rage quitting Bravely Default 2, I finally made it to the end of the game. Admittedly, the game did get easier once I learned how to utilize jobs and abilities more effectively, but some of those final bosses are truly no joke. After completing the game, […]
Nier: Automata’s Flooded City Washes Away All Other Level Design
Water rushes through cracks long since battered into hulking heaps of concrete, roaring from the source before softly spilling into a calmer basin. There’s something quite ethereal about the scene – gross monuments to humanity and progress being reduced from metropolis to Atlantis before the plummet, ambiguous rubble like cheap decorations in a fish tank. […]
Please Add More Motion Sickness Settings To Your Games
The first game to ever make me sick was Rugrats: Search for Reptar. I was only seven years old, curled up on the couch, sick as can be into a trash can. I remember not understanding why I was so ill, I just knew that it got worse when I toddled about as Tommy Pickles. […]
Skyrim’s Jails Are Boring And Made Meaningless By Scum Saving
Skyrim was my first-ever RPG. I was a plucky young 11-year-old kid with an Xbox 360 who’d never really dipped into the fantasy genre barring The Lord of the Rings, so when I booted it up to see a cat-person, it blew my little mind. I sat by and waited for my brother to finish […]
Fumito Ueda Should Be Given The Rights To Adapt Ghibli Films Into Games
The Last Guardian is my second-favourite game ever made – I’ve even got Trico tattooed on my forearm. I’ve got the Platinum trophy on PS4, which is remarkably difficult to achieve, and have completed the whole game around eight times. For some reason it never gets old for me, its focus centering on a magical […]
Yu-Gi-Oh Games Are Always Great, Actually
From Slay the Spire to Monster Train, to Trials of Fire, Loop Hero, and Dicey Dungeons, I’ve played a whole lot of deckbuilders over the last few years. While all five of these have roguelite elements, I’ve dabbled in more conventional card games as well – I played Hearthstone quite a bit back at launch, […]
I’ve Abandoned PC League of Legends For Wild Rift
It just hit me the other day, but I’ve been playing League of Legends for ten years now. I only remember the anniversary because I started playing the week my favorite jungler, Nocturne, came out. My relationship with Riot’s MOBA is a complicated one, and I’m no stranger to its troubled history as one of […]
Fallout Quest: The Fallout JRPG Lost To Time
Most Fallout fans have played at least a few games from the main series. Some devotees of the series have played some of the lesser-known and critically panned entries, such as Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. However, there’s one Fallout game that few have played, since it currently cannot be played. Fallout Quest is the one […]
Disco Elysium Is The Closest We’ll Get To A True Detective Game
True Detective’s Rust Cohle is one of the greatest characters ever committed to television. Because True Detective has never quite lived up to its first season and because Rust has been Joker-ized into a pretentious poet, it doesn’t feel like he quite gets the credit he’s due – it doesn’t help that Matthew McConaughey is […]