Category: Reviews
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Halo: The Series – Episode Two Review
When we ended the last episode, Master chief had just unmasked himself. To end the first episode with one of the most famously ambiguous gaming characters unmasking himself was incredibly risky. A narrative twist like that shows us as a viewer that this was not going to be like the Halo we’re all used to.…
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Boreal Tenebrae: A Frustrating Yet Beautiful Work Of Art – Switch Review
I’ve recently been playing Horizon Forbidden West in my spare time. What was supposed to be a twenty to forty-hour experience has contorted itself into an eighty-hour slog that I can’t bear to suffer through any longer. Everything feels so intrinsically stale, an experience entirely rooted in old school game design and lacklustre storytelling. It…
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Gran Turismo 7: Stunning Cars, Heavy Microtransactions – PS5 Review
HSV Adventure Racing (Beetle Adventure Racing outside Australia) consumed my childhood. Winning races, unlocking cars and setting records was an exhilarating experience like no other. As time went on, split-screen multiplayer went from the typical experience to more of a novelty, and online multiplayer became the standard. However, those games don’t suit the needs of…
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IKAI: A Foundation For a Better Game – PC Review
Barcelona-based developer Endflame’s first project, Ikai, is not a bad horror experience but similar to the recent Martha is Dead settles, a middling horror release. It borrows the game-feel of Fractional games, builds a unique tone and atmosphere, and mixes in the excellent maze-like level design of a Japanese shrine. Still, unfortunately, it’s undercut by…
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Weird West: A Frustratingly Inconsistent Immersive Sim – PC Review
I’ve always been enthralled by the immersive sim genre, as it puts the freedom of choice in the player’s hands. I was ecstatic when I heard that ex-Arkane developers, who had worked on Prey and Dishonored, were opening a new studio and debuting their project, Weird West. It was set to be another immersive sim,…
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Halo: The Series – Episode One Review
Video game adaptations are a notoriously tricky thing to pull off, and most of the time, fans are left angry and disgruntled at the outcome. Fortunately, not all of them are bad. There are some good adaptations out there that strike the perfect balance between adapting the source material and also carving a new path…
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A Memoir Blue: An Emotionally Charged Work Of Art – Switch Review
One of my favourite games from last year was the gorgeous space-hopping extravaganza, The Artful Escape. It spoke to me on so many levels, offering me an engaging way to not only explore the protagonists’ own insecurities in a clever and evocative way but also my own. It was published by the ever-prolific and profound…
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Sokobos: An Inspired & Satisfying Puzzle Game – PC Review
There comes a time in every reviewer’s life when they have to confront a rather ugly truth about themselves. Today as I sat staring at the same tantalisingly gorgeous puzzle I had been for the past thirty minutes, I decided it was my time to realise what I had known about myself for so long.…
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Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? – PC Review
Wales Interactive and Good Gate Media are continuing to push the boundaries on FMV games. Their most recent game, Bloodshore, turned a popular FPS genre into a gameshow worthy of appearing on the Hunger Games. Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus is the next FMV game to come from the pair, mixing a murder mystery…
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TUNIC: Reinterpreting The Legend of Zelda – PC Review
Fans of the much-anticipated soulslike TUNIC will be more than thrilled with its final release. It is an obtuse deconstruction of the original Legend of Zelda, capturing its spirit and modernizing it with a soulslike edge. While I can’t say I loved my time with the game, I admire its vision and its commitment to the design…
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Young Souls: Impeccably Original & Stylishly Fun – Xbox Series S Review
As a journalist who predominantly covers indie games, the constant and daunting threat of losing interest or simply growing fatigued with the very form of entertainment that sustains your career is genuinely terrifying. Over the past few years, I’ve reviewed roughly 86 indie games, previewed 30+ more and played a dozen extra in my spare…
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Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream – PS4 Review
I have an early confession to make in this review. I never played the original Atelier Sophie. In fact, I have never played a single Atelier game. As such, it was with a great amount of shock I discovered that Atelier Sophie 2 was actually the twenty-third main title in this long-running RPG series. That’s…