Souls-likes walk a fine line. How far do they go to capture the essence of Dark Souls while still making something their own? It’s not an easy task. Games like Salt and Sanctuary answered that by more or less adapting their inspiration onto a two-dimensional plane, while others like Hollow Knight instead used it as…
I really dig what Chucklefish has done with Wargroove. It manages to be a double-sided coin that serves a painful reminder that it’s been eleven years since a proper sequel to Advance Wars.
While I wouldn’t say that this Definitive Edition is perfect, it’s still the best way to play Tales of Vesperia.
If Ace Combat 7: Unknown Skies is any indication, there’s still plenty of fuel left in the tank for the flight sim genre.
I’m surprised by the overall quality of this season, and if things keep going the way they are, I’m sure its finale will prove to be as emotionally charged as the season has been so far.
FutureGrind is a stunt-platformer from Milkbag Games. In it, you ride bikes whose wheels grind along rails of the same color, pulling off tricks and generally looking cool all the while in your pursuit of attaining the highest score possible. Think something like Ubisoft’s Trials series, but as an auto-runner and not as mean, and…
I had a great time playing through episode 2 of Life is Strange 2, even though it’s not nearly as well polished as the previous one.
Resident Evil 2’s gore is disgusting, and in tandem with the erratic zombie behavior and incredible atmosphere, helps play up the horror dramatically.
Smoke and Sacrifice is somewhat flawed and slow to play, but if you can managed to overcome these issues, there’s an entertaining game to be found.
This is what Just Cause 3 should have been: a huge, mostly glitch-free playground of destruction in which you can let your beer-chugging, heavy metal-appreciating imagination go rampant.
