Reviews of games
FromSoftware is famous today for its sprawling action role-playing games, a proud lineage that stretches from 2009’s Demon’s Souls to last year’s Elden Ring. But before FromSoft invented the Soulsborne genre, it was most well known for its long-running Armored … Continue reading Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Review
Pikmin 4 bursts into bloom on Switch, delivering one of the year’s best games. Continue reading Pikmin 4 Review
In October of 2008, EA released a sci-fi survival horror title called Dead Space. It was a moderate hit, well-regarded for its intense action, horrifying monsters, and strong atmosphere. It would spawn two sequels and a number of multimedia tie-ins … Continue reading Dead Space (2023) Review
You may be familiar with Zeboyd Games – a small American studio comprised of Robert Boyd and Bill Stiernberg – through the indie RPGs that it produced for the Xbox Arcade platform in the early 2010s; Breath of Death VII … Continue reading Review: This Way Madness Lies
On February 17, 2022, the third game in the Total War: Warhammer (hereafter referred to as Total Warhammer) released. While it was met with positive reviews and good sales numbers, the playerbase at large quickly grew frustrated with the flaws … Continue reading Total War: Warhammer 3 Review
Note: this is not a review of a video game, rather it is my thoughts after around eight hours of gameplay from an open beta. The final product may change between now and the eventual launch date. New World is … Continue reading New World open beta: First Impressions
Note: On June 24, 2021, Square-Enix will be releasing an HD remaster of Legend of Mana. I assume that they will not be screwing with it too much based on its MSRP, but do not take this review as a … Continue reading Legend of Mana Review
I love dragoons. I just need to get that out first. So much of my interest in this game stems from my love of the design of dragoons. As long as I’ve been into RPGs, Final Fantasy V has forever … Continue reading Late to the Party: Final Fantasy V
2020 has been a good year for video games, and few are as original and frankly strange as Vanillaware’s Thirteen Sentinels: Aegis Rim. A sweeping anime epic and quasi-real-time tactical experience, it defies easy categorization but nevertheless leaves a strong … Continue reading Review: Thirteen Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Hello! And welcome to the inaugural post of Art’s Quick Hitters, where I post a rapid reaction to a game I’m playing. Also, the inaugural post of Art Cop Vandelay at all! So, the purpose is two fold: Purpose the … Continue reading Art’s Quick Hitters: Hitman 2
I just completed Persona 5 Royal, and I can confidently say it’s my favorite PS4 game. I loved Persona 5 when it was first released, and I love it more now that Atlus has delivered this new version. It’s a … Continue reading Persona 5 Royal: A Review
In Which the Pink Puffball is Up to Tee One of the reasons Nintendo has been able to succeed for so long in the ever shifting industry called video games is a surprising amount of flexibility when it comes to … Continue reading Weird, Overlooked, Wonderful 07: Kirby’s Dream Course
This piece discusses in detail the narrative and ideas of Nintendo’s eponymous 1993 game and its 2019 remake. Be prepared. It be the nature of dreams to end. Far away from a more classical fantasy kingdom accessed via a link … Continue reading Link’s Awakening: The Island of Lost Souls
Elite Dangerous is a spacefaring game released by Frontier Developments on PC in 2014. Later on it was also released on OS X and Xbox One and then, later still, on the PlayStation 4. It is the fourth title in … Continue reading Game Review: Elite Dangerous
A Slow Opening Okami is a strange game. It was one of the final two games to be released by Clover, the celebrated Capcom studio behind classics like Viewtiful Joe and Godhand. Actually, those are all the games that Clover … Continue reading Okami Retrospective
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) has been available on PC via the Steam Early Access program since March of 2017 but the official full 1.0 release was finally unveiled this week, meaning that the game is no longer in beta testing. It is … Continue reading Game Review: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
When it was first announced that there would be a prequel to Life is Strange, I was skeptical. I loved the first game, but as curious as I was to learn more about Chloe’s relationship with Rachel Amber, Life is … Continue reading Game Review: Life is Strange: Before the Storm
This review discusses many aspects of Breath of the Wild, including the ending and various secrets within the game, so a big fat SPOILERS warning for you all. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out 3rd March 2017, on Nintendo … Continue reading The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Review
Sonic the Hedgehog was the first video game I ever played. The original Mega Drive (known elsewhere as the Genesis) quadrilogy is cemented in my mind the same way one might know their favourite album or film like the back … Continue reading Game Review: Sonic Forces
Just look at this mope. Anyway, Spoilers Ahead! I just finished Final Fantasy XV. Clocked in about 100 hours and got my platinum trophy. Just to establish that I played the shit out of this game. And yet… I’m not … Continue reading Final Fantasy XV Spoilers
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