After many years of reviewing games I’d inadvertently set myself a long list of boundaries that, for whatever reason, I wouldn’t cross. It started with simple things, like I had…
Of the many great lines that came out of the American version of the Office was the one from Andy Bernard: “I wish there was a way to know you’re…
Cast your mind back to high school English classes, the ones where they decided try to introduce Shakespeare to a severely disinterested bunch of teenagers (I count myself among them…
First impressions can be a hard thing to shake. Certainly I fell trap to the idea that Atomfall was simply going to be a British version of Fallout, something that…
It’ll be different this time, you tell yourself. You’ve been down this road before, you know the mistakes to avoid so when you do the thing it won’t end up…
Most retro-revival shooters I’ve played over the years have, in my opinion, been pretty terrible. Certainly there’s worth in exploring the roots of a genre but the unfortunate reality is…
Ah party games, it’s such a polarising genre. For every person I know who loves the chaos that comes about due to the uncaring rolls of RNGesus there’s another who’ll…
Choices matter. Or at least that’s what a lot of games want you to believe. It’s become all too common for games to give you the illusion of choice, the…
Indulge me, if you will, in a bit of meta-commentary about the use of games as tools to communicate ideas and themes, not just as devices for entertainment. The idea…
There’s an inertia for me, a palpable weight when it comes to diving into big RPGs. Part of this is born out of the desire, which I’m still trying to…