Sometimes, there’s nothing quite so reassuring as a good old JRPG. This is a comfort blanket of a genre for players of a certain age, games that happily consume entire lazy afternoons curled up on a sofa as you slowly push numbers ever upwards. They don’t come much more comforting than those producer Tomoya Asano …
Bravely Default 2 review – a heady serving of nostalgia, and a theorycrafter’s dream Read More »
The RTX 3060 has big shoes to fill. The last-gen RTX 2060 brought Nvidia’s crown jewel features like real-time ray tracing and DLSS to a broadly affordable price point, while the value of the Pascal-era GTX 1060 means that it’s still the most popular graphics card in the world, according to the Steam Hardware Survey. …
Bravely Default II hearkens back to another age of fantasy role-playing games, where players would find tiles to pace back and forth on, taking on random encounters to gain experience and resources before proceeding to the dungeon boss. Managing a team of four, players change jobs to access a wide variety of skills and abilities, …
Bravely Default II Review – Switching Up The Grind Read More »
This game casts a spell. A very particular spell. It is hard as they come, punishing, brutal, unforgiving in its challenge. And yet I love it still. It’s not just difficult. It has a perspective on difficulty. It makes its sheer level of horribleness first endearing and then thrilling. Ghost ‘n Goblins Resurrection review Developer: …
Ghost ‘n Goblins: Resurrection is a game that time forgot, designed to transport players to the heyday of the Super Nintendo where visual beauty meets gameplay brutality, dazzling and pummeling in equal parts. The stack of corpses Resurrection piled up during my playthrough made me swear like a sailor, and yet I walked away singing …
Ghosts ‘N Goblins: Resurrection Review – The Beauty Of Nostalgia Read More »
I’ve been shouting about Astrologaster since 2019, when a build appeared in my inbox one day, and yet I still don’t know exactly how to classify it. I’m loathe to call it a visual novel even if. mechanically speaking, the shoe fits – you mostly listen to conversations between two people, and make a few …
Astrologaster review – an Elizabethan comedy for the ages Read More »
There is something great about a really good cinematic fall. Have you seen Welcome to the Jungle? I’m pretty sure this film, starring The Rock, Rosario Dawson and Seann William Scott, is largely forgettable. In truth, outside of a fondness for the leads, I have largely forgotten it myself. But man, it has a really …
This place is too big for us. Everything is oversized, as though we’ve stepped through the glass at the carnival’s hall of mirrors. Doors aren’t entryways, but mouths of caves. Each step on the staircase is a mini-mountain to scale. Later, when plastic aberrations shuffle in the darkness and you shatter the empty skulls of …
Little Nightmares 2 review – a brilliantly horrifying, often infuriating return Read More »
Persona 5 Strikers was born in a fit of consternation. Back when the spin-off was announced, with many fans holding out hope for a Switch port of P-Studio’s excellent 2016 JRPG, the news that this would be another of Omega Force’s seemingly endless musou reskins was met with a slightly disappointed shrug. It felt like …
At the end of Persona 5, we parted ways with a terrific cast of characters we grew to love over the course of a 100-hour story. Last year’s Persona 5 Royal gave us an excuse to revisit that same adventure with additional content, but fans yearned for an all-new journey. Persona 5 Strikers reunites the …
Persona 5 Strikers Review – A Powerful Other Self Read More »