2018-10-02 12:59
The Surge‘s newest DLC has a surprisingly apropos name. Sure, it’s a homage to Clint Eastwood designed to declare its bizarre Western-themed influences, but it also works in the… Read More
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2018-10-02 01:39
Nimbatus – The Space Drone Constructor is a remarkably self-explanatory title, being attached to a game that consists of building ships of both the self-piloting and manually controlle… Read More
2018-10-01 00:30
For those keeping track, this is the second strategy RPG blending the combat gameplay of XCOM with the events of FTL that I’ve covered in a row. Let’s take a moment to consider h… Read More
2018-09-30 01:51
I was in heaven when I first started playing Depth of Extinction, a newly released strategy RPG with permadeath. That’s exactly the kind of game that I excel at/enjoy, and enjoy it I d… Read More
2018-09-29 17:31
I’ve been busy with a lot of things lately, but made time to try out Soulcalibur VI‘s multiplayer beta because it was the first opportunity most of us would get to play around wi… Read More
2018-09-29 03:47
The Battling Your Shadow mission is the first spark of originality Soul Calibur Legends has mustered in quite awhile, though as always, it backfires and instead proves to be gimmicky up the… Read More
2018-09-27 22:03
Updates to Xbox One games are incredibly easy to miss since I power on the console maybe once or twice a month, but I got lucky and managed to catch the update to Elea – Episode 1 less… Read More
2018-09-26 19:52
We Happy Few has proven a popular punching bag for a litany of reasons largely revolving around its bugs and miscellaneous gameplay inconveniences (which is to say nothing of the way numerou… Read More
2018-09-26 03:12
Strategy games are a relative rarity compared to other genres, and your options become even sparser if you’re particularly drawn to the subcategory known as “strategy RPGs.&rdquo&hell…Read More
2018-09-24 09:05
HEVN is a first-person exploration game that feels like a much older game in terms of design sensibilities, with its most notable feature being the inventory system that lets you pick up jus… Read More
2018-09-24 02:31
Guardian Cervantes’ Revenge is the point where I should probably mention that I’m playing Soul Calibur Legends on actual hardware, and on a monitor that’s slightly above wh… Read More
2018-09-23 04:59
We’re halfway into the boss refights, and while these last two are awful in the sense that everything about Soul Calibur Legends is, there’s no sign of the kind of frustration th… Read More
2018-09-22 01:07
The Fafnir re-fight took me over an hour to get past over two separate attempts, while I breezed through this Return of Guardian Ammon mission on my second try (and even then, only because m… Read More
2018-09-20 23:39
Return of Guardian Fafnir is the worst, most patently unfair mission I’ve encountered in Soul Calibur Legends to date, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that I began seriously… Read More
2018-09-19 22:53
Tales of Vesperia went on sale shortly after I re-acquired an Xbox 360, and it ended up being one of the first games for the system that I ended up picking up as a result. Don’t mistak… Read More
2018-09-19 03:12
You know, it’s the strangest thing: I’ve had Resonance of Fate installed on my Playstation 3 for something like a year now, and only yesterday did I decide to go through the aren… Read More
2018-09-18 02:30
I can’t help but feel that this Beyond the White Darkness mission demonstrates that Soul Calibur Legends is aware of who’s doing the heavy lifting. Mitsurugi and Astaroth were se… Read More
2018-09-18 02:12
Most games that I cover either never receive patches or make a token effort to address the easiest criticisms while leaving everything else intact, so it’s nice to see Ninjin: Clash of… Read More
2018-09-17 00:39
Patches can make a world of difference, though it’s easy to forget that given the way some developers drag their heels and/or simply give up on fixing issues. Every so often, however… Read More
2018-09-15 18:38
Around a month and a half ago, I tried to play through indie jRPG Noahmund, only to hit some unfortunate bugs and patches of missing dialogue. Two weeks ago, Noahmund was patched to version… Read More
2018-09-14 21:38
There’s a point in the Punch Line anime where main character Yuta Iridatsu says something about how the spirit world functions similarly to a video game, and there’s really no de… Read More
2018-09-13 22:52
The story of both the Punch Line anime and game can be roughly described as existing in two distinct parts, beginning with the initial “spirit” half and ending with main characte… Read More
2018-09-13 04:09
For those keeping track, the Zenon Mansion is simultaneously Leonardo da Vinci’s home, a place for criminals operating on a different continent to stash their loot, and the Imperial Ar… Read More
2018-09-12 03:30
I do a fair amount of research when it comes to upcoming games, but watching an entire anime to prepare for a game adaptation is certainly a new experience. Still, despite the Punch Line ani… Read More
2018-09-11 00:06
Ninjin: Clash of Carrots is a unique marriage of a phone-style runner game and traditional 2D beat-em-up, and there’s no denying that it does a lot of things really well—there ar… Read More
2018-09-10 05:25
Defense Line in the Wilderness is yet another example of a Soul Calibur Legends mission designed solely to waste your time. On the bright side, there are a handful of small features such as… Read More
2018-09-09 03:53
Ninjin: Clash of Carrots is a beat-em-up with a twist, that being the fact that you engage most enemies while running to the right in pursuit of a stolen carrot supply. Since your default sw… Read More
2018-09-07 21:18
Back in 2004, a game called Kult: Heretic Kingdoms (also known as Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition in some locations) first released. It was a game without a full-sized map, and the first f… Read More
2018-09-07 02:28
I’ve officially finished Shadows: Awakening (and all of the side content, minus one particularly excruciating sidequest), which means being able to look back and offer some observation… Read More
2018-09-06 17:24
The Surge was a really interesting game that took some much needed steps away from a couple of Dark Souls traditions, but kept its story similarly vague and open to a million different inter… Read More
2018-09-05 19:30
While I’m currently quite a ways beyond this point in Shadows: Awakening, there’s just something about the trials at the Ziggurat of the Sun that gets under my skin, so let&rsquo&hell…Read More
2018-09-05 03:54
Something I’ve come to realize over the past year or so is that I have a strange fascination with confusing narrative games. There’s a crucial difference between confusing and no… Read More
2018-09-04 01:40
It feels like it’s taken a million years to go through these stupid stages and save everyone all over again, but we’re finally down to the final missing characters: Ivy and Lloyd… Read More
2018-09-03 04:18
Overall, I’d have to say that I’m enjoying Shadows: Awakening quite a bit at the moment. Character switching is an interesting mechanic with a lot of potential, the combat is inc… Read More
2018-09-02 00:12
Now that Sophitia and Taki have been saved, it’s time to go after the B-team so that I can continue never using them. Now that I think about it, Mitsurugi and Astaroth are actually the… Read More
2018-08-31 18:09
The day has finally arrived: after half-finishing their original attempt at following up the surprisingly excellent Kult: Heretic Kingdoms due to a publisher bankruptcy, then fighting for th… Read More
2018-08-31 01:58
There have been a lot of awful missions up to this point, but this supplants them all to take the crown of “worst.” The difficulty is starting to ramp up to a point that fails to… Read More
2018-08-30 03:38
Calling these impressions might be a bit misleading, as I played through the entirety of Elea – Episode 1 in a single sitting because of a compulsive need to see where the story was go… Read More
2018-08-29 05:12
I used to call these looks back at games “review followups,” but using the R-word too much outside of actual Rs tends to cause some keyword cannibalism issues with search engines… Read More
2018-08-27 21:43
Back at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, more colloquially known as E3, one of the more interesting things to be shown happened behind closed doors as developer CD Projekt RED shared some… Read More
2018-08-27 03:27
Despite this mission being named “Final Battle,” it’s not the final battle. I’m pretty sure that you’re supposed to think it is, with the goal being to defeat B… Read More
2018-08-26 03:34
Again, I have no idea why or how Cervantes is a Guardian, and like so much else in Soul Calibur Legends, it makes no real sense. He’s not a great boss fight, either, suffering from the… Read More
2018-08-25 05:21
While I like to use Final Fantasy XIII headers to accompany bad news since the two are inextricably linked in my mind, that’d probably be needlessly confusing, so I’m going to st… Read More
2018-08-24 20:21
There’s a point in 2D survival game Neverliria where everything starts to click. For me, that was after the main character, referred to as “the fire-headed girl” on both th… Read More
2018-08-24 00:19
I can’t help but feel that “2D game where you’re fending off nightly, increasingly strong attacks while you collect resources to build things and try to stay healthy”… Read More
2018-08-23 03:13
I sincerely hope that this is the last time this abysmal timed mission shows up. If there turns out to be another one of these later on, I’m going to very seriously consider abandoning… Read More
2018-08-22 01:36
Once upon a time, there was a game called Kult: Heretic Kingdoms (or Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition based on where you lived, though the name difference now depends more on which digital… Read More
2018-08-21 17:18
The past two days have been a simultaneous high and low note for Soul Calibur VI, with the game going up on Steam with an EULA that suggests that it’ll be using Denuvo in addition to u… Read More
2018-08-21 02:36
Again, there’s no particular reason why we’re collecting these maps other than the fact that we’re closing in on the final shard of Soul Edge and Soul Calibur Legends has a… Read More
2018-08-20 03:53
I’m going to warn you right now that Soul Calibur Legends seems to have given up on trying to provide any kind of meaningful story justification for its fetch quests, so the next coupl… Read More
2018-08-18 22:09
I’ve been slacking a bit with the screenshots lately, but it’s hard to put up a representative sample without giving away an entire game’s plot. Also, going through between… Read More
2018-08-18 21:55
First, some crucial back story that’s bound to be lost over time: We Happy Few originally debuted on Kickstarter as a procedurally generated roguelike featuring survival mechanics. Tel… Read More
2018-08-17 22:09
I suppose I’ve officially finished We Happy Few now that I’ve made it through act 3, which follows crazy Scotsman Ollie Starkey as he looks into something Arthur Hastings brought… Read More
2018-08-17 00:42
There’s nothing about Soul Calibur Legends’ Mysterious Warrior mission that’s all that surprising, though the depths of its awfulness are nevertheless indescribable. This m… Read More
2018-08-15 21:39
Part of me was dreading We Happy Few‘s second act, and not just because of the character change that ensures that you have to start over without any of the powerful weapons you’v… Read More
2018-08-15 02:08
With Masked Emperor’s forces safe (surely this time it’ll last!), it’s time to go and deal with the next Guardian, or to be more specific, Guardians. The biggest problem wi… Read More
2018-08-14 04:57
Everything about Break Through the Siege is lazy. It’s basically For Tomorrow (which itself was a repeat of the Defend the Capital mission), with the only real difference being—w… Read More
2018-08-13 04:58
Lately I’ve been busy with some unexpected drywalling (don’t ask), but I’ve been notching out an hour here and an hour and a half there where possible to push through We Ha… Read More
2018-08-12 03:01
Since Soul Calibur Legends apparently only allows you to collect one of the two MacGuffins you need ahead of time here, it’s now time to hunt down the other in the appropriately titled… Read More
2018-08-11 02:10
A whole lot of things get confirmed in the Warrior of the East mission. The way missions rapidly become more annoying by including cheap shots that there’s no reasonable way of avoidin… Read More
2018-08-10 04:53
I thought about using a header image that reflects the new healing mechanics to better fit the fact that I’ll primarily be talking about Wayward Souls’ new healing mechanics (goi… Read More
2018-08-09 00:06
Noahmund is a roller coaster ride in the best and worst of ways, starting off awkwardly, but possessing snowballing charm that comparable modern jRPGs like Square-Enix’s Lost Sphear la… Read More
2018-08-08 00:15
I recently took a “vacation” (though it was more of a “had to do things in real life that precluded working heavily on game stuff” scenario), and got a Noahmund key o… Read More
2018-08-07 01:43
The last mission’s name was “Hunt Down Leone d’Oro,” so the fact that we’re still after them is a testament to how badly we failed at that goal. Still, Mitsurug… Read More
2018-08-06 05:12
According to the internet, there are 6 chapters of story and one additional chapter where you can play old missions if you want to (though why anyone would want to spend more time with Soul… Read More
2018-08-06 05:03
You know, at first I was just joking about being trolled by Bandai Namco after Maxi got announced shortly after I mentioned him being one of the characters I struggled going up against, but… Read More
2018-08-05 02:01
With all of that seal-breaking busywork out of the way, we can now get on with defeating the Guardian Ammon in the appropriately named “Guardian Ammon” mission. All of the hits a… Read More
2018-08-04 03:20
For Tomorrow is another of those Soul Calibur Legends missions that are inexplicably timed. This time limit isn’t too limiting, mind you, but having a big timer counting down at all ti… Read More
2018-08-03 01:47
Pursue the Cult is a chapter of constant red flags both on the story and gameplay fronts. Soul Calibur Legends’ story could only generously be considered well told, with its attempts t… Read More
2018-08-02 01:48
The more I play, the more I realize that Soul Calibur Legends is a game of distractions. Siegfried can’t be portrayed as incompetent because of his later significance to the series, bu… Read More
2018-08-01 18:52
I had no idea what I was going to cover yesterday, being between a handful of things. At one point I thought to myself that it’d be nice to go back and play some more Shantae, but quic… Read More
2018-08-01 01:42
Today’s mission is called “Altar of the Evil God,” and it involves taking a detour to smash some stuff belonging to cult members. Because it’s not like we have anythi… Read More
2018-07-31 02:34
Malfortune is a quirky twin-stick shooter with a morality system that forces you to weigh killing its bosses for (mostly) handy power-ups against the fact that doing so locks you out of the… Read More
2018-07-30 01:55
Okay, I’ve now finished a run where absolutely everyone and everything I came across was murdered, which led to an appropriately depressing ending. Since Malfortune lasted me about two… Read More
2018-07-28 21:12
Malfortune is a twin-stick shooter made by a single person that has a distinctly Undertale-ish hook—you can decide who lives and who dies, either absorbing the essences of bosses (who… Read More
2018-07-27 21:27
All right, so I should probably start with a disclaimer that while I’m confident that TRAGO maxes out at 5 endings, it’s hard to be sure of anything in a game where you can engag… Read More
2018-07-27 21:21
The best way of playing TRAGO is to go in without any knowledge of what it’s like so that you can stumble your way around. Figuring things out this way makes for a slightly awkward fir… Read More
2018-07-27 00:11
For some reason, it feels like more than 10 days since I first covered TRAGO, or at least did so to the best of my ability until a bug rendered most of the game inaccessible. Thankfully, tha… Read More
2018-07-25 04:16
Semblance is essentially a puzzle-platformer game where you play as a blob that possesses the ability to headbutt the scenery into different shapes. Using that skill, you avoid hazards and g… Read More
2018-07-24 21:01
While the Deception franchise has long been one of my all-time favorites, I avoided Deception IV: Blood Ties for the PS3 and Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess for the PS4 (which includes… Read More
2018-07-23 20:12
I’ve been really burned out lately, and part of that comes down to how many games I’ve ended up leaving half-finished. Some people can multitask like that, but I tend to burn out… Read More
2018-07-22 20:21
The header image for this one is more apropos than I can even articulate. Not only is the writing infantile and centered more around highlighting Velgie’s legs than building up to anyt… Read More
2018-07-21 19:21
Okay, the daily updates for Wayward Souls really aren’t practical anymore now that the difficulty has been ratcheted up to “why why why” levels. We’re talking rooms f… Read More
2018-07-20 20:54
To be honest, I don’t know what everyone sees in Voldo, but he’s clearly popular enough to make it into every Soul Calibur game (including even PS1 precursor Soul Blade/Soul Edge… Read More
2018-07-20 02:12
All right, I had been labeling these Soul Calibur Legends progress logs according to the name of the area they take place in, but it turns out that you revisit areas multiple times, making t… Read More
2018-07-19 18:40
After the initial plans to shutter Gravity Rush 2’s servers generated fan outcry, granting the game a brief reprieve, the secondary outcry that hoped to push their execution even furth… Read More
2018-07-19 00:31
I don’t know why smashing bookcases, skeletons, torches, and other miscellaneous objects is so entertaining in Wayward Souls, but it very much is. There’s just something about le… Read More
2018-07-18 02:35
Way back in 2014 when dinosaurs roamed the earth and things weren’t in a constant state of “on fire,” I reviewed the mobile version of Wayward Souls and concluded that a ga… Read More
2018-07-17 21:49
Ever since Quantum Replica updated on the day of release—rendering large swaths of my review irrelevant in the process—I’ve been cautious about covering games before I&rsqu&hell…Read More
2018-07-17 01:50
I’m a huge fan of mythology in general, but games that focus on it tend to be a drag to play through. The first such game I can remember trying was Never Alone, which was such a profou… Read More
2018-07-15 20:23
Insane Robots is a wonderful example of how complicated situations arising from simple mechanics can be fun, but it’s also an amazing example of how a good thing can be ruined by cramm… Read More
2018-07-15 00:05
I told myself that I wasn’t going to review Insane Robots until I finished Tournament 8 without cheating, but after reaching its third arena and getting consistently screwed by the che… Read More
2018-07-14 03:44
I’ve been steadily reviewing games over the last six years as a one-person operation, putting out ~4.9 reviews a month since 2012, and many things have been learned along the way. Ther… Read More
2018-07-13 02:47
I was enjoying Insane Robots overall, barring a few minor issues like the full-screen white flashes and random stage elements that proved occasionally annoying, when Tournament 8 rolled arou… Read More
2018-07-12 00:11
Insane Robots is a card-based battling game that’s unique in a number of ways. For one thing, the mechanics are a case of complexity arising from fairly simple mechanics (a personal fa… Read More
2018-07-10 23:45
I dived deeper into Nidhogg 2 than most games, eventually snatching the #1 time in the PC version’s arcade mode and playing some tense online matches to unlock new wearable equipment… Read More
2018-07-09 23:28
Red Faction: Guerrilla is often held up as the best game in the series by those who have no recent experience with either the first game or Armageddon, and that’s always been baffling… Read More
2018-07-09 00:32
The Eos area—like Parker, named after the character from the original Red Faction because Guerrilla loves to invoke nostalgia without earning it—is a train wreck. I knew that goi… Read More
2018-07-08 00:50
After the gameplay started to become enjoyable around the Badlands area, I knew it was only a matter of time until things became bad again. After all, I remember some of the later sectors an… Read More
2018-07-07 01:40
I may not care for Red Faction Guerrilla overall, but I can still give credit where it’s due. The physics proved much less of an issue this time around, and that’s in addition to… Read More
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