Tagged: Review
Dark Souls II Review
Is Dark Souls II better than the first game? Is Dark Souls II harder? Prettier? More accessible? I imagine these are the most common questions surrounding Dark Souls II, and they all directly address its status as a sequel. Despite… Read More »
Last autumn Telltale Games released the first installment of the company’s new episodic adventure game series, The Wolf Among Us. The initial outing, entitled Faith, introduced players to the Fables universe — one populated by the flesh and blood incarnations of… Read More »
What will happen if they find out? Will I be alienated? Will I lose the people I love? Will my life change for the worse? I can’t let anyone find out. From a mechanical perspective, Octodad: Dadliest Catch approaches stealth… Read More »
Nidhogg has the potential to be truly special, but this review exists in a vacuum. I can only comment on present-day Nidhogg, and its flaws hold it back from something greater. Most notably, the online multiplayer appears to be busted… Read More »
The Stanley Parable feels like a conversation between player and developer. Illusions of choice and consequence are masterfully maintained, despite the very nature of the “story game” experience on offer. As in most video games, player agency upon the virtual… Read More »
“Horror” games come in many shapes, sizes, flavors, and colors. Some games take elements that are traditionally classified as horror and plant that content in the midst of some other game genre, calling it horror, yet failing to deliver on… Read More »
The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 1 – All That Remains Review
Clementine has endured terrible hardships in the years since the dead began to rise in The Walking Dead. With her surrogate father and role model, Lee, now gone, those hardships are only getting worse in the first episode of the… Read More »
About a decade ago, I acquired and proudly wore a t-shirt bearing the image of a Nintendo Entertainment System controller, with the words “Know Your Roots” scrawled boldly below it on my chest. About a decade later, and Nintendo is… Read More »
Xbox LIVE Arcade was once the premier place for little indie games with big ideas to flourish. Limbo. Braid. Trials HD. Super Meat Boy. Now, Microsoft’s fragmentation of its own online marketplace in the wake of numerous dashboard updates –… Read More »
For the most hardcore PC gamers, multi-monitor, ultra-high resolution display environments are not out of the realm of possibility. In fact, such setups might fall more suitably under the category of “everyday use” for enthusiast videophiles. Reaching that level of… Read More »
