Category: Reviews
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Death’s Door: A Thought-Provoking Experience – PC Review
Death is not an easy business for a harbinger of souls. As reapers, crows slave away collecting souls needed to power magical doors. When a door opens, a reaper must acquire the assigned soul to close that door. One look at the office and it is easy to see the monotony of the job has…
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Cris Tales: Great For Newcomers, Boring For Veterans – PC Review
When I first opened up Cris Tales, I wasn’t too sure what to expect. I had initially played the demo over a year ago, and back then, I had enjoyed the premise. However, I was not entirely convinced that Cris Tales was going to make for a great game. Nevertheless, there was a whole year…
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Mousebot: Escape From Catlab: Misplaced Fun – PS4 Review
Vector Unit has consistently proven itself capable of innovation when it comes to the kart racer genre. With their outstanding Beach Buggy Racing series and their lesser-known Riptide GP games, they showcased their ability to understand where the genre could evolve and what needed refining. Mousebot: Escape From Catlab is their most recent title, but…
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Where the Heart Leads: Ambition at a Price – PS4 Review
In the first twenty minutes of Where the Heart Leads, I had my doubts. It aims to tell the story of a man’s life from childhood to old age. But the dialogue was stiff and unspecific, and the surrealist element of a sinkhole swallowing up yourself and the family dog when you attempt to rescue it, leading…
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Boomerang X: Occasionally Challenging, Always Innovating – PC Review
I never had a boomerang growing up. Like the diabolo, which was surprisingly as popular as the fidget spinner at one point, the boomerang remained a tantilising mystery I would never get my hands on. The idea of flinging it in one direction only for it to whizz back toward me seemed mesmerisingly mythical. Sadly,…
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Mythic Ocean: Transcendent Oceanic Journey Is Amazing – Switch Review
When I was younger, I resented holidaying. It sounds privileged, I know, but there was something discombobulating about leaving everything behind to go somewhere so distantly removed. Shortly after I turned 10, I went on holiday feeling out of sorts. I had begun feeling depressed, I was starting secondary school and potentially losing my friends.…
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Chicory: A Colorful Tale – PS5 Review
Stories come in all shapes and sizes. Most games tell stories about love, loss, heartbreak, hope, or revenge. And while these may be important issues for some, I find myself a little disconnected. Fortunately, I haven’t experienced a lot of the feelings that many stories portray. However, Chicory: A Colorful Tale tells a deep story,…
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Alekon: A Picture Perfect Experience – PC Review
It feels like only yesterday that I finished playing the rather excellent photography game Beasts of Maravilla Island. After completing it I went on a bit of a photography game binge, looking for everything and anything photography related. It used to be one of my biggest passions when I was growing up. But back then…
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Alex Kidd In Miracle World DX: Just Let It Die Already – PS4 Review
I was born in 1998, which was a pretty significant year for video games. Just some of the games that launched that year include Crash Bandicoot, Metal Gear Solid and The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Unfortunately, my parents didn’t love the idea of me and my siblings playing games all day. So, for…
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Dark Deity: A Fun Discount Fire Emblem – PC Review
Fire Emblem has always been one of my favourite franchises as far as SRPGs go, and God knows, there have been countless mediocre clones of it. Conceptually, making an RPG is not that difficult. You just need a world, some characters, some enemies and a linear plot. However, making a good RPG is another matter…
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Beasts Of Maravilla Island: Unparalleled Immersion – PC Review
The art of being wholly immersed within a video game and its universe is, in my opinion, the most important distinction between a game and any other form of art. The level of freedom afforded by video games offers the player an unparalleled immersive experience that is simply unobtainable elsewhere. Regardless of whether the experience…
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Chair Simulator: An Ironic Take on Video Games – PC Review
Once every so often a game so is mundane that it captures our imagination far more than intended. Games like Airplane Mode and Papers Please took the simplest ideas and made them invigorating. Chair Simulator takes this to a whole new level. I came across Chair Simulator by chance, when browsing the newest games on…