Cris Tales is a stunning old-school JRPG with a unique art style and a captivating time control mechanic, but is hindered by repetitive combat.
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Videogame Review: ‘Hades’
Hades, a golden child of the early access formula, ends up an amazing game with phenomenal style, gameplay, writing and audio design.
Read More »PAX East 2020 – ‘Curse of the Dead Gods’ Videogame Preview
'Curse of the Dead Gods' kept me coming back time and again with atmospheric environments, cool story hooks, great combat, and fun loot upgrades mechanics.
Read More »PAX East 2020: Previews – ‘The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk’ and ‘Recompile’
On the crowded PAX East show floor, two very different games from publisher Dear Villagers, 'The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk' and 'Recompile', caught my eye as fun and unique titles.
Read More »Videogame Review: ‘Corruption 2029’
In this followup to Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, developer The Bearded Ladies delivers a solid action title with deep tactics but a shallow story.
Read More »Music Videogame Review: ‘Spin Rhythm XD’
Spin Rhythm XD is an addictive, simple and fun music game with amazing tunes and instantly accesible pickup and go mechanics.
Read More »Montreal International Games Summit 2019: The Games
At MIGS 2019 it was refreshing to focus on discovering a lot of smaller titles instead of being wowed by the big Triple-A games.
Read More »PC Videogame Review: ‘Tetris Effect’
Now that I had a chance to extensively play 'Tetris Effect' on PC I am kicking myself for waiting so long.
Read More »PAX East 2019 Preview: ‘The Riftbreaker’
One of the more pleasant surprises at PAX East was checking out a small but beautiful game called The Riftbreaker. Made by a Polish group called Exor Studios this game had a lot of tweaks to the base building strategy game formula. Set on a distant planet called Galatea 37 …
Read More »PAX East 2019 Videogame Preview: ‘Mistover’
At the surface I took Mistover as a Darkest Dungeon clone, but developer Bluehole has brought a lot of depth and originality to the game.
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