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Review – Deadly Premonition 2
Deadly Premonition was a fantastical brilliant blunder. It was lightning in a bottle. So, does the sequel manage to make the same magic happen once again? No! Those statements mean no!
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Review – S.P.L.I.T.
Aw, gosh. If there was ever a game coded for me, it’s S.P.L.I.T. Hacking, typing, and horror. The only thing that could make it better is if I could boot up Chip’s Challenge on the in-game machine. It’s interesting (and unplanned) that I’d play this game so soon after my review of Typing of the Dead where I talked about…
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Review – P-47II MD
Ooo. Forbidden shoot-'em-up. F-47II MD was cancelled back in the '90s, but Retro-Bit and City Connection are making sure it sees the light of day exactly how it was intended: on Genesis.
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Review – The Drifter
One of the philosophies that made LucasArts’ SCUMM point-and-click adventure games (Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island) so dominant in the ‘90s was their exorcism of the adventure game tradition of death. Games like King’s Quest and even earlier text-based adventure games loved killing the player. It was a fountain of dark humour that everything from The Hitchhiker’s Guide…
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Review – Shadow Labyrinth
I got into Shadow Labyrinth yearning to relive the age of relentlessly edgy reboots, and oh boy is that exactly what I got. Whoever decided there should be a Pac-Man game where the franchise’s mascot constantly says stuff like “I’ll take you to places filled with things that deserve to meet the end of that sword of yours” deserves a…
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Swery’s next game, Hotel Barcelona, is open for business in September
Are you ready to... What the hell is this game even about? Are you ready to have a serial killer in your head? That doesn't sound like something most people would want, but if you answered "yes," Hotel Barcelona is out this September.
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Review – Irem Collection Volume 3
It's a good time for arcade collections! I lied, it isn't. PS2 was where it was at when arcade collections would have, like, 30 titles on them, and you could always find them in the bargain bin. Contrary to that, here's Irem Collection Volume 3.
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Review – The Procession to Calvary
While Four Last Things centred around sin and the joy of sinning and how great sins are, The Procession to Calvary zooms in a bit closer to focus in on a subset of wrath: murder. My favourite thing! I assume it’s the favourite thing of most gamers. Most games have us indiscriminately murder people without worrying about who’s going to…
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Preview – No, I’m Not a Human
The whole “uncanny valley” horror antagonist is so pervasive that I nearly dismissed No, I’m Not a Human based on its Steam capsule art. Misproportioned limbs, stretched out visages; that sort of thing. But No, I’m Not a Human isn’t just streamer bait. I mean, if it is, it’s really depressing streamer bait. And not depressing as in, “Entertainment is…
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Preview – Ground of Aces
The cancellation (or “indefinite hiatus”) of Jumplight Odyssey absolutely bites. League of Geeks folding is a huge loss, but Jumplight Odyssey was aiming to fill a massive hole that I don’t think anyone even realized was there. It was like the good half of Super Dimension Fortress Macross adapted into a management game. And it’s never going to happen. Who…
