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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 – 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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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 – 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…
