90s nostalgia feels like it’s cresting yet another wave although I couldn’t tell you exactly why. Perhaps part of it is due to us millennials now being more prominent positions…
choices matter
Ever since the first walking simulators and interactive fiction games came into our lives the definitions of what makes a game have gotten fuzzier as time has continued its endless…
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…
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…
Indulge me for a moment will you. I have…a lot of thoughts and feelings about how I found myself playing Road 96 and what it means more generally to me….
Expectations are a dangerous thing. This is the thought that has rattled around in my head whenever I start thinking about Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Even before it came out…
Well, I lied. I thought that my new Switch, all covered in its glorious Zelda branding, would meet the same fate as its predecessor. This was the price of admission…
One thing I find fascinating is exploring media that wasn’t made for me as an audience. Whilst most content created today contains a lot of similar themes, tropes and ideas…
Last year I managed to convince myself that I had a read on basically every game I came across, just by looking at the title and a handful of screenshots….
Games, as a whole, have come a long way when it comes to giving the player real control over how the narrative develops. Gone are the days of the simple…