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Review – Dandy Dungeon: Legend of Brave Yamada
For his part in creating my beloved Chulip, Yoshiro Kimura has earned a lot of goodwill from me. As such, I’ve been happily lapping up the games produced by his new studio, Onion games. However, I missed my chance to play Dandy Dungeon: Legend of Brave Yamada on mobile, and I don’t remember why. The game is now defunct on…
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Review – Deltarune: Chapter 1
As much as I adore the game, I don’t want a sequel to Undertale. It’s not that I think that developer Toby Fox wouldn’t do a decent job of it, but it’s a self-contained story that wraps up in a satisfying way. Any attempts to extrapolate on it would feel cheap and lessen the impact. Luckily, for his follow-up game,…
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Happy 2 Year Anniversary!
Can you believe another year has passed since we started this blog? I can! It feels like longer. This blog has aged me terribly. It was started on July 19, 2017, making it the second year anniversary. Hooray! This marks the 151st post on the site, which is 96 new posts since last year. For most of the year, I…
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Review – Baobabs Mausoleum Episode 2: 1313 Barnabas Dead End Drive
I was left feeling cold by the gameplay of Baobabs Mausoleum Episode 1: Ovnifagos Don’t Eat Flamingos, but still came away with nothing but affection for it. It was its aesthetic; a weird mix of creepy and groovy. It was its protagonist who I kept reading in the voice of Jack Nicholson. It was the lighthearted horror that wasn’t so…
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Review – Baobabs Mausoleum Episode 1: Ovnifagos Don’t Eat Flamingos
The indie games market isn’t what it used to be. What once felt like a thrift shop bin full of knickknacks and other oddities is now more similar to a dumpster. If you wade into it, you might find some hidden treasures, but you’ll more likely emerge with a bad smell and a strange disease. We now largely rely on…
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Review – Quadrilateral Cowboy
I’ve felt a lot of goodwill toward Brendan Chung ever since Citizen Abel: Gravity Bone blew my young mind with its expert melding of interactivity and narrative. Quadrilateral Cowboy sounded like a game he was making specifically for my own specific interests. Hacking, old computer hardware, his own personal twist on storytelling; it’s a recipe that gets my thighs grinding.…
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Review – Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
I often wonder what authorities think when they come across the carnage left in the wake of Nathan Drake. As a gunfight raged through what was essentially a museum, I could only theorize on how the discovery would go. Would they blame gang violence? Surely they wouldn’t easily arrive at the conclusion that one dude and his murderous friends were…
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Review – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Nathan Drake is a character who can only exist as a video game protagonist. When you really dig down into his core, he has absolutely no idea what he’s doing and no motivation to be doing it. At least, not one that is established. I like to tease that he just enjoys killing scores of his fellow man, but really,…
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Review – Twisted Metal III
In my youth, I never really got to play anything past Twisted Metal 2 on the PS1, but the knowledge that there were further sequels was tantalizing. I think I maybe caught glimpses of Twisted Metal III and Small Brawl, but that just stoked my craving for more vehicular combat. I never did get around to playing the other PlayStation…
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Review – Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is the tale of a psychopath who manages to gather a bunch of like-minded people, lacking in empathy, to murder their way to treasure. I couldn’t help but repeat this through my head as I blasted my way through wave after wave of shabby looking dudes wielding AK-47’s. No one here has qualms about killing people. Nathan…
