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….
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Regular horror has never really been an interesting genre to me, especially the new age stuff which relies on jump scares or body horror in order to get a reaction…
I wouldn’t call myself a fan of Indiana Jones. I mean sure, I’ve seen a few of the movies and they’re fine but that’s about as far as my interaction…
After finishing my playthrough of Still Wakes the Deep I was left with just one question: why? It’s such an unusual blend of different things: Lovecraftian horror, oddly specific details…
It seems false assumptions has led me to yet again roll the dice on a developer’s debut title. There I was, thinking that Nobody Wants to Die was (for whatever…
This review almost didn’t get written. You see I’ve been on the wrong side of history numerous times with games that are almost universally loved. The first of these was…
Every so often I stumble across a game that feels like it came from a previous era. Sometimes this is a conscious choice, driven by a desire to evoke the…
The last few years have seen AAA titles tend in a few notable (and notorious) directions. The large investment of capital from the publishers and developers pushes them towards wanting…
The concept game idea appears to be catching steam, with a lot of aspiring developers releasing a prelude or mostly-complete title with the idea of generating buzz, getting feedback and…
So one of the reasons that I continue these reviews is mostly to give myself a check on how I’m feeling about a game now vs when I was actually…