Star Ocean: The Second Story R Review – Back to the Future
Awan Wiharya The Star Ocean franchise has been an underappreciated one within the Japanese RPG genre. Despite being around for more than 25 years, it’s never had the breakout success that elevated…
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The Talos Principle 2 Review – Machine Learning
Video games often deal with the end of the world and thinking about how cool it might be. Like, sure, it sucks that most everyone has to die horribly for…
RoboCop: Rogue City Review – I’d Buy That For A Dollar!
RoboCop: Rogue City is a love letter to the 36-year-old sci-fi franchise. Teyon, the studio behind Terminator: Resistance and Rambo: The Video Game, clearly has a soft spot for ’80s…
WarioWare: Move It Review – I Am Merely Okay To Move It Move It
WarioWare is a series built on gimmicks. The very idea of “microgames” on the Game Boy Advance was a silly, novel idea, and every iteration since then has tried to…
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Campaign Review – Return Of The Makarov
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s campaign picks up where last year’s Modern Warfare 2 left off. Captain Price’s iconic Task Force 141 is back in action and, as teased…
Ghostrunner 2 Review – Delicate Balance
When it launched in 2020, Ghostrunner was quickly recognized for its slick blend of satisfying first-person parkour platforming and tough-as-nails, one-hit-kill combat. Perhaps most impressive was just how well it…
Like A Dragon Gaiden Review – The Man Who Can’t Escape The Yakuza
Perhaps I was naive to think that the legend of Kazuma Kiryu actually wrapped up with Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, and that his appearance in Yakuza: Like A…
Sonic Superstars Review – Reaching for Stars
Sonic as a franchise is notoriously inconsistent, offering up some amazing highs, some truly dire lows, and a fair few games that are forgettably mediocre. But then there’s that one…
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 Review – More Than A Rerun
Two years ago, Fair Play Labs and Ludosity entered the platform fighting game ring with Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl. The game was decent enough, but it was clear that the core…
You Will Die Here Tonight Review – Empty Residence
In the opening of You Will Die Here Tonight (YWDHT), my Resident Evil-inspired super-cop solved a confusing book-based puzzle and ventured into a secret underground lab, where she was then…