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Review – Timberborn
It's finally here! The 1.0 release of the best survival city-builder to date. Whoops! I think I just ruined the entire review. Well, you should read it anyway, because it's full of better words than this description has.
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Review – Crabmeat
Horror? Yeah, scary stuff. But check out this game about being the sole crewmate of a crabbing boat. Crabmeat! You just boat around the ocean, dropping crab traps and sorting your haul. Just watch out for the big ones.
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Review – Stray Children
I'll always show up for a game by Yoshiro Kimura, creator of, among other things, Chulip. But with such high expectations, is it even possible for me to be satisfied? Yes. Of course. Don't be so black and white about things.
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Review – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Here’s a fun fact: my favorite number is 33. Growing up a New York Knicks fan named Patrick, I naturally gravitated towards being a major Patrick Ewing fan. What number did he wear? 33 of course! Eventually, I would learn that other NBA greats wore the (evidently) iconic 33: Larry Bird and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. If you want some proof (weird),…
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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 – 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 – Betrayal at Club Low
It's the fourth game in the Cosmo D, and with Betrayal at Club Low, the interactivity has caught up with the aesthetic. Dice should be appreciative, because they have never had it so good.
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Review – F-Zero GX
I remember being extremely amped for the release of F-Zero GX in 2003. Thankfully, this was one instance where, when I finally got my hands on it, it was everything I hoped for. Returning to it all these years later, is it all I remember it to be. Yes. Very yes.
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Review – Cool Riders
If you don’t look too closely, it looks like a bunch of thrown-together digitized sprites trying hard to look cool. Like Pit Fighter; exactly like Pit Fighter. But upon closer inspection, you realize that it isn’t just some ill-advised, thrown-together racing game. It knows exactly what it is. I still do not know what chaotic ritual conjured this game, but…
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Review – Castlevania
I still remember the day after I first completed Castlevania. I met with my friend and said to him, "Okay, you're really not going to care or even understand what I'm going to tell you, so just pretend to be excited: I beat Castlevania." He was very convincing in his performance.
