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Review – The Typing of the Dead
Do your finger exercised, elevate your wrists, put your feet flat on the ground, and get read to type at some zombies. Typing of the Dead takes the zombie-killing gameplay of House of the Dead 2 and perverts it in ways that nature didn't intend: by adding typing.
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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 – Shadows of the Empire
It smells like early N64 in here. I must be Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. What a match! A brand new hyped up console getting hyped up by a game made to hype up a latent movie franchise. But, you know what? It worked. Mostly.
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Review – System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
I never played System Shock 2. I’ve thought about it. Some people that I respect really dig it. However, some people that I respect dig the spiritual successor, Bioshock, and I don’t really care for that series. However, back in 2023, I reviewed the System Shock remake for Destructoid, and I really enjoyed it. I think I mostly enjoyed the…
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Review – The Museum of Anything Goes
I’m not sure if I can adequately prepare you for how bizarre The Museum of Anything Goes is. Let me first take you back to 1995. While the operating system was superseded that year, the important thing to know about Windows 3.1 was that it wasn’t a platform for video games. At the time, most games ran natively on DOS.…
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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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Review – Blood: Fresh Supply
I love Ken Silverman’s Build Engine. I toyed around with it when I was a kid, and I recall a period in early adulthood where I dove into its inner workings, as well as Silverman’s other projects. It is the perfect 2.5D engine, with the right balance of limitations and sophistication. But I only really played Duke Nukem 3D. Well,…
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Hardware Review – 8BitDo Retro R8 Mouse
I love 8BitDo’s stuff. I own a lot of stuff from them. From retro wireless controller adapters to actual wireless retro controllers, you’ll find a lot of them around my apartment. In particular, my arcade stick by them and legally distinct Genesis and SNES controllers get a tonne of use. I even had to replace the sticks on my SF30…
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Review – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
When The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion launched in 2006, it was a big deal. The new console generation had just been ushered in by the Xbox 360, and the promised new experiences that the hardware enabled were coming out of the gate. Oblivion showed off lush forests like we’d never seen before, and that’s all I needed to know. More…
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Review – Four Last Things
I’m more of a modern art appreciator. People being good at, like, depicting nature and stuff is cool and all, but it’s the weird stuff that speaks to my soul. I’m sorry if you thought I was sophisticated and that shatters the illusion. So, someone hacking up some renaissance paintings and gluing them back together like a ransom note is…
