Some games trigger an internal battle for me: one side arguing that it’s easy to judge a game’s merits by a few key factors whilst the other pushes me to…
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I’ve tried to think about what it is about loosely or completely disconnected narrative games that irks me so much. To be sure I find interest in stories where there’s…
I’ve come to realise that I’ve had an unconscious bias against sequels that are, essentially, more of the same. I think this is because I’ve never been a “one game”…
Ever since the runaway success of Minecraft there’s been a rush of games that are trying to become the next digital form of Lego. These sandbox titles often seek to…
At this point I don’t think this game really needs any introduction…however… I, like many innocent children, was the victim of a goose attack. Now the fact that I may…
We sometimes forget just how young video games are as a creative medium and how far they still have to go as methods of expression. But that relative youthfulness brings…
Survival sandboxes have never really been my cup of tea. I get the appeal, crafting your own story however you see fit, but if I’m going to engage in the…
Oh boy have I ever been avoiding playing this game. It’s not because I dislike reviewing popular games or ones that have had a relentless hype cycle (I’ve played recent…
A sizeable percentage of the games I own are wholly or in part due to my feelings of nostalgia towards them. Some are originals, games I keep around because of…
Sometimes a game is responsible for the creation of a new genre. The most often reference example of this is the MOBA genre, one that was spawned out of the…