As a lover of so-called Eurojank games, I have a high tolerance for bugs and roughness - within reason. Also, contextually. See, there's a difference between a scrappy game that needs some polish but did its best and... Bethesda's track record of blatantly unfinished nonsense.
2024-10-21 14:01:42 +0000 UTC View PostA little encouragement goes a long way.
Games we played this week include:
Life is Strange: Double Exposure (08:00)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (21:30)
UFO 50 (36:25)
Nintendo Alarmo (59:10)
Starship Troopers: Extermination (1:07:20)
So I really, really, really like this one. I love Starship Troopers anyway, but I was surprised at how enjoyable Extermination was. It comes with a lot of caveats though, so if you CLICK HERE you can see all ...
2024-10-16 18:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post
A Transformers racing game isn't a bad idea. THIS Transformers racing game is an appalling idea. It's called Galactic Trials and it costs forty bucks despite looking and feeling like some mobile freemium crap. CLICK HERE&nb...
2024-10-15 14:36:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Silent Hill 2 Remake is better than I expected, but while Bloober Team impressed me in some areas, its love of hackneyed horror tropes had at least one ruinous effect - it turned Silent Hill's Mannequins into Spammequins. Let's talk about monsters in horror games, and why too much exposure to them ruins their effectiveness.
2024-10-14 16:17:38 +0000 UTC View PostCan you believe such a catchy slogan could turn out to be so wildly inaccurate?
Games we played this week include:
Silent Hill 2 Remake (06:50)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (27:15)
Satisfactory (40:40)
Cryptmaster (45:15)
UFO 50 (55:05)
Spell Brigade (1:07:10)
Here we are! People have been anticipating my review on Bloober Team's reimanining of Silent Hill 2 and the time is upon us! The game is... not bad? It's got some detrimentally bad stuff IN it, but the stuff Bloober got right is damn surprising. 2024-10-10 15:06:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Ubisoft is in trouble. Sales are down, market value is down, investor goodwill is down, down, down. Ubisoft, quite honestly, deserves its straits and more, but the problem in wishing for that is how many undeserving people get dragged down as well.
2024-10-07 12:21:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is brilliant, as far as I'm concerned. You can make a squad of Octoroks and shoot the hell out of things. Anyway, I reviewed it rather glowingly, and you can get the proof of that if you 2024-10-05 17:53:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Don’t you dare question it.
Games we played this week include:
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (07:30)
Void’s Vigil (24:25)
Balatro (31:15)
The most exciting idea about the rumored Switch 2 specs is clipping the Joycons into the side with magnets. That is more important than fancy graphics, and I mean that. Just like the DualSense Controller and the Share Button are better PlayStation upgrades than Ray Tracing ever could be.
2024-09-30 13:53:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been too long.
Games we played this week include:
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (08:50)
Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 (17:30)
Void’s Vigil (26:30)
The Plucky Squire (29:55)
Halls of Torment (33:30)
Serious Sam (35:25)
Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 is such a great game. It lets me play EDF in a way I actually like, for one thing. It's also packed with content and action as well as being wonderfully stupid. CLICK HE...
2024-09-26 11:14:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been playing Halls of Torment's Early Access build for a while, but got my hands on a final version recently, so here is a full review of a very, very good Survive 'em Up with a Diablo aesthetic and a truly impressive amount of depth to its upgrade systems. 2024-09-24 19:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Sony's shareholders want more money, so it's time for a hardware update! The PS5 Pro has been announced. It costs a stupid amount of money and it's a stupid amount of worthless. Let's take a big wee-wee all over it, shall we?
2024-09-23 15:43:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Funko Fusion truly, deeply offends me, but it's provided me with a great example of what I've been calling the battle for context. This excessive exploitation of media licenses is getting out of hand, and the grab-bag of abuse "intellectual property" in Funko Fusion is a stunning showcase. 2024-09-20 12:49:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re simply too enthusiastic.
Games we played this week include:
The Plucky Squire (04:55)
Satisfactory (10:30)
Funko Fusion (12:25)
Zero Zero: Perfect Stop (24:45)
Serious Sam 4 (28:20)
Former Sony Europe CEO Chris Deering has said some genuinely offensive garbage in the wake of the industry's awful layoff epidemic. His callous suggestions to those laid off include just getting over it and having a beach holiday, because from his perspective it isn't really a big deal.
And ain't that the problem? This is from HIS perspe...
Good lord this is one of the best games ever. A delightful mascot platformer, a stim toy, a big nostalgia trip. CLICK HERE to see me praise the heck out of a Sony thing after all that Concord unpleasantness.
2024-09-13 12:52:38 +0000 UTC View PostGood riddance.
Games we played this week include:
I Am Your Beast (19:55)
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 (27:40)
Leo the Firefighting Cat (47:55)
Astro Bot (50:45)
Space Marine II is one curious game. It's both really fun and really frustrating. Entertaining combat and beautifully brutal visuals are marred by frankly baffling design choices and some glaring oversights when it comes to balancing gameplay across three different modes. I really like it, but have a lot of complaints, and you can 2024-09-10 15:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Concord represents a new low for the "live service" goldrush, lasting only two weeks before Sony pulled the plug. Meanwhile, the same publisher just put out Astro Bot to joyful acclaim! One is a game nobody asked for, the other is a game people clamored for. Why do companies keep pumping their budgets into the former and neglecting the latter?
Brought to you by lead.
Games we played this week include:
Astro Bot (11:25)
Gori: Cuddly Carnage (20:30)
Desvelado (39:10)
Squirrel with a Gun (40:45)
It's a game I can't stop shouting about, a cute and utterly brutal hack n' slash game that reeks of the 2000s. Gori: Cuddly Carnage is an absolute riot, and you can CLICK HERE to read my rave review.
2024-09-03 17:32:57 +0000 UTC View PostGoogle researchers had their AI "make" a Doom level, and now they're claiming they have a game engine. It is arrogant nonsense, and it only proves how desperate they are to take jobs away from every type of creator they can.
It's particularly offensive to do this with Doom, since making maps for that game is a particular art form, and ind...
2024-09-02 14:43:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, you’ll never guess what madcap nonsense we got up to this time!
Games we played this week include:
All Will Rise (3:50)
Crypt Custodian (13:55)
Gori: Cuddly Carnage (19:30)
Butts in Space (32:25)
Concord (40:00)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 (41:20)
Path of Exile 2 (42:00)
Date Everything (43:25)
Immortal (45:50)
Pro...
I absolutely detest Concord, and while some of that isn't the game's fault, plenty of it is. Let's talk about a game so insecure about how derivative it is, it made things worse on purpose. CLICK HERE for all of that guff!
2024-08-28 10:36:06 +0000 UTC View PostDo the so-called gamers who whine about "wokeness" and "DEI" actually play or care about the games they claim to protect? Do they know the slightest bit about the medium they're prattling on about? Is Black Myth: Wukong good? Is Dragon Age: Veilguard "erasing straight people" with its gayness? All I know is, Gori: Cuddly Carnage is pretty great!...
2024-08-26 17:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn't going to review this rerererelease, but I got pissed off by the ineptitude one too many times. Let's see how the clowns at Microzenithesdid ballsed this one up by CLICKING HERE!
2024-08-24 13:19:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I played the controversial Deadlock and have some opinions, so what better thing to do than post those opinions online? Come with me on a very serious journalistic endeavor and 2024-08-23 12:19:45 +0000 UTC View Post