Super Mario RPG Review – An Authentic Ode To A Classic
Super Mario RPG is one of the wildest games in Nintendo’s catalog. Loaded with eccentric characters like a Santa-esque big bad, random bouts of dark comedy–Toad cosplayers tickle as a…
Persona 5 Tactica Review – Vive La Persona
Over the years, Atlus–the studio behind the Persona series, Catherine, and Shin Megami Tensei–has developed a reputation for the way it approaches adult themes and dark topics unabashedly. While this…
MLB The Show 23 Review – Grand Slam
Jackie Robinson is many things: a hall of fame baseball player; a Rookie of the Year, MVP, and World Series winner; and, most notably, the first Black man to break…
Tron: Identity Review – Gone In 60 Millicycles
Bithell Games finds itself with its highest-profile project to date in Tron: Identity, a visual novel set in Disney’s sci-fi universe. On paper, combining an IP as narratively rich as…
Dead Island 2 Review – Eat The Rich
Games labeled as being in “development hell” rarely release in a state anyone would want to experience–if they release at all. With Dead Island 2, however, Dambuster Studios kicks away a…
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp Review – War Games
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is a remake of 2001’s Advance Wars and 2003’s Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising. While the first Advance Wars hasn’t aged as well as…
The Mageseeker: A League Of Legends Story Review – Magic In The Air
After a decade of resting solely on the laurels of its hit MOBA, Riot Games’s decision to expand the lore of the ultra-popular League of Legends and its war chest…
Redfall Review – Half-Staked
Redfall is a four-player co-op loot-shooter that pits players against vampires and the cultists who follow them. The story premise is classic Arkane stuff, but in practice, it plays like…
The Last Case Of Benedict Fox Review – Fair Deal
Like my favorite metroidvania games, The Last Case of Benedict Fox is built around solving a mystery. It can go too far in its efforts to be deeply mysterious, especially in its…
After Us Review – Abstract Dystopia
Nothing quite compels you to buy into a game’s stakes like happening upon the decaying carcass of a dog who’s starved to death. This is the first of several emotional…
