Revolution Software are known for their visionary approach to the puzzle adventure genre and with Beyond a Steel Sky (a spiritual successor to 1994’s Beneath a Steel Sky), they have coated a classic formula in a new sheen of paint. Having spent a great deal of my formative gaming years bending my head around the multilayered puzzles of […]
I’m sure a lot of you can relate to this: I was a humongous Pokémon fan when I was a kid! It was even more prevalent for people in my age range, as I grew up when Pokémon made its western debut in the late 90s. Coupled with the anime series, movies, the trading card game, and merchandise up […]
I have a lot of nostalgia for Mario Party, I admit. I spent a lot of time with friends as a youngster playing the earlier entries. Stealing stars and joking as we beat each other at minigames was a great time. I only really stopped as those days of sitting around a console after school […]
Far Cry’s tendrils can be felt in more or less every open-world game to come out in the last decade or so. Whilst the series has moved away from tall towers and cinematic camera sweeps, the series dedication to combining the baffling, the goofy, and the serious have remained well and truly intact. Far Cry […]
Life starts from an egg for a creature called a trebhum, and our newly hatched trebhum, small but curious, peers out into a strange world. At that same moment, a great endless Cylinder wakes from its slumber. Slowly it rouses; faster it grows—rumbling, rolling, crushing, consuming—eternal and inevitable. The trebhum flees the destruction as fast […]
If you’d told me even 12 months ago that Metroid would not only be getting a brand new 2D game, but it was a sequel to the 19-year-old Metroid Fusion, I’d have permanently damaged my vocal cords from all the scoffing. To think, Metroid Dread was surprise announced and released within a few months…man, it […]
For many gamers, Ace Attorney is the premier name in murder mysteries. The series’ exciting blend of courtroom drama, adventure-style investigations, and visual novel storytelling have produced a wealth of highly regarded games, and the image of Phoenix Wright objecting, hand outstretched and finger pointed, is iconic. Accordingly, the latest entry in the franchise, The […]
Metroidvania is a crowded genre these days. And with games like Hollow Knight and the Ori series setting a high standard, would-be contenders can’t simply be satisfied with functionality. To make an impact, a metroidvania needs something that stands out. Unbound: Worlds Apart from Alien Pixel Studios makes its bid with a unique portal mechanic. […]
I am a huge Metroidvania fan. I have been ever since I was introduced to the genre with Metroid Fusion, and have been spoilt rotten since with titles like Guacamelee and Hollow Knight. Unfortunately, I don’t get a lot of time to dabble in the genre, so when I saw the ‘dinky title that could’, […]
Ever wondered what it would be like if Metal Gear Solid didn’t take itself at all seriously? Upcoming game UnMetal from developer @unepic_fran and publisher Versus Evil looks like the answer to that question. I got a chance to preview the game ahead of its launch later this summer, and I’ll be sharing my impressions of the first three chapters. Let […]