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Guilty Gear 2 Overture Is The Chain of Memories Of The Guilty Gear Series

Guilty Gear 2 Overture is an oddity of the Guilty Gear series, trading fighting games for a strategy sim. It's also an important event in the game's canon, and absolutely worth checking out

Saros Review — A Bullet Ballet Through Endless Eclipses, Pushing Each Cycle to the Limits in a High-Pressure Spectacle

Little Nightmares VR Altered Echoes Makes You Glad The Original Games Are So Slow

Review of Little Nightmares VR Altered Echoes, which adds a new level of stress to the series by having you do manual labor

Pragmata Is Capcom Magic At Its Finest

Pragmata may be one of the most optimistic games I've ever played. Since the first hands-on with the demo the game has exuded this 7th gen energy from it, that last flash of creative spirit before games started taking safer swings with it. Now, having played through the full game, it's safe to say that wasn't a demo-only vibe: that creative flash is at the core of what Pragmata is.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Has A Big Sky But No Shining Stars

The Super Mario Galaxy movie is a bizarre mix of setpieces that seem a little too template-y strung together in the weirdest way that also leads to a kind of dull plot that punishes you for paying attention

The Division Resurgence Gives You The Dark Zone on the Go

The Division Resurgence is a pretty good game if you love Tom Clancy's The Division series, having all the charm of its console counterpart ported to a compact mobile build

Cupiclaw Lets Me Subject Even The Pursuit Of Love To The Thrill of Gambling

Enter Cupiclaw. In Cupiclaw, you play as a guy who's lost his engagement ring that he plans to use to propose. In a thinly veiled excuse to hide his problems, he decides, "You know what will bring it back? Gambling".

Resident Evil Requiem Is The DMC 5 Of Resident Evil Games

Resident Evil Requiem is an absolute gem of a Resident Evil game, somehow combining both of the series core identities into one brilliant thrill ride

Romeo Is A Dead Man Is A Punk Man

In an age of design by committee and general appeal, this review examines Romeo Is A Dead Man- a game that desperately does its own thing, even occasionally at its own expense.

My Hero Academia All's Justice Feels Like Just The Right Amount Of Fan Service

Review of My Hero Academia All's Justice, the 3v3 arena fighter built around the My Hero Academia IP

DRAGON QUEST VII Reimagined Review — A Reimagined, Monumental Fragment-Hunting Quest, Now Streamlined Yet Still Deeply Moving

Highguard Has Just Got One Too Many Attempts To Be Unique

Having tried out the game myself, Highguard exists in this weird dual-reality state. On one hand, I absolutely agree with the idea that it's genre-pushing: the game's systems work very hard to make it so much more than an Overwatch or Valorant clone. On the other, it also has the downsides of taking big swings: some of its decisions make no sense.

Code Vein II Review — Old Wounds Remain, but Traveling Beyond the Bloodline With These Vampire Partners Still Feels Worthwhile

Craftlings Is A Gateway Drug For Supply Chain Games And Deism

Craftlings seems to walk the road that leads people into the walled garden of management sims. It's deviations from the formula are two-fold: one to make it more approachable with more bite-sized goals, and the other to add a layer of difficulty these games don't usually have.

Skate Story Is A Triumph Of Creation

In this Skate Story review, we discuss just how much of the personal touches in the game drive its charm- from font choices to its bizarre art direction.

UNBEATABLE Is The Kind Of Sad Beauty Only Produced By Former Scene Kids

Every now and gain, you get a triumph of human creation. Given this year has already had so many bangers from Awards magnet Expedition 33 to any of the other games it inevitably beats out, I didn't expect we'd get another in UNBEATABLE.

Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 Is A Great Noir Story But Its RPG Elements Lack Bite

A review of Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, which sadly sacrifices a lot of the depth of its RPG predecessor but still has the fun of throwing weaker vampires around like ragdolls.

News Tower Accurately Portrays The Mental Anguish Of Chasing Deadlines

Review of the newly released News Tower, a management sim that has you chasing the glamorous life of running a newspaper in the 1930s.

ANNO 117 Pax Romana Lets Me Girlfail My Way To Success

Review of the new ANNO 117 Pax Romana, a game about roman city building and the joy of being a wet cat.

Digimon Story Time Stranger Feels Like The Series Finding Its Groove As A Monster Collector

Review of Digimon Story Time Stranger, which is honestly one of the best Digimon things put out in recent years

Once Upon a KATAMARI Is How You Do Quirky Right

Once Upon A Katamari may be one of the most genuinely bizarre and quirky games I've played, and all in a really endearing way. It's astounding how well the game feels quirky in a really timeless way. I was really preparing for some sort of weird zoomer take on the King of All Cosmos as he tries to be a Twitch streamer or something. Instead, what I got was a charmingly timeless sense of humor- he's just a weirdo.

Kizuna Encounter Super Tag Battle Feels Light In All The Best Ways

With the re release of Kizuna Encounter Super Tag Battle, you can now go back to a time where that wasn't necessarily the case. Kizuna Encounter feels very much like a bizarre proto mesh of all the things SNK would later become known for- specifically in really fun and cool ways.

Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 Is A Game That Understands My Specific Need For Action

One thing about older fighting games is that you can tell which principles they’re built around. While Street Fighter and the games inspired for it tend to be on the slower, more patient side, games like Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 kind of laugh in that direction. With the game shadow-dropped at TGS I’ve got [...]

Silent Hill f Shows All Horror Games Needed Was Visual Novel Magic

One of the hardest things a game needs to do for its audience is convince them to accept its perspective. Many modern games do this by simply watering it down to the simplest, most basic views. Monsters bad, good guys good, etc. Some feign intellect by saying “What if monsters good?” but never do anything [...]

Sonic Racing Crossworlds Teaches Me The Joy Of Being A Hater

Since the last beta, I've been very excited for Sonic Racing Crossworlds. It's a kart racer with attitude, after all- mixing up a tried and true formula with some really clean bells and whistles.