Schlagwort: reviews

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn Fe, your most powerful tool is your voice. You, a small fox-like creature, can use your songlike call to befriend other animals, open up new pathways in the environment, and distract the game’s mechanical enemies. But you also have to know when to stay quiet and silently read the signals of…

Reading Time: 7 minutesIt’s hard not to have your interest piqued by Rust. Few other games strive to make you feel as helpless, vulnerable, and lost as its startling opening and outwardly confusing mechanics do. Rust wants you to think it’s about survival, but it never uses the tools at its disposal to realize that.…

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe new Secret of Mana is billed as a remake, but „reconstruction“ is probably more accurate. If not for the updated graphics, it could almost be considered a port of the SNES game. Combat, magic, and movement are much the same. The new mini-map—one of the scant few quality-of-life tweaks–is the original…

Reading Time: 2 minutesPokemon Go’s second Community Day is quickly approaching, and like the inaugural event held last month, it’ll give players a brief chance to capture a rare Pokemon with an exclusive move. Developer Niantic had previously revealed that the Pokemon in question this time will be Dratini, and now the studio has shared…

Reading Time: 2 minutesDevil May Cry HD Collection is launching soon on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and today it got a new trailer. But DMC fans still have something to look forward to before it is released: later this month, you can check out the first Devil May Cry game on PC for free…

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe premise of Attack of the Earthlings is the flip of a well-worn trope: Instead of being faced with an impending alien invasion, humans are the intergalactic terror. And (even worse, depending on your own views) the invading terrans are hopelessly incompetent capitalists, who are out to make a quick buck. As…

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn combining a tower defense game with a platformer, Aegis Defenders carries an ingenious idea at its core. The problem is, that idea is never fully reallized: the game’s surface-layer tower defense is serviceable but unbalanced, while the platformer underneath is unimaginative and frustrating, leaving very little to actually enjoy. Each level…

Reading Time: 8 minutesEditor’s note: Bayonetta 2 arrives on Switch with everything intact from the Wii U version, but with the added convenience of portability and a more consistent frame rate, making it the definitive version of the game. Thanks to the confident execution of seemingly unbridled creativity, Bayonetta 2 remains a game that shouldn’t…

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe story of Three Kingdoms-era China has been a mainstay of Dynasty Warriors since the days of the original PlayStation–and while it’s gone through a number of iterations since then, Dynasty Warriors 9 represents the biggest shift away from the series‘ established formula since moving from a one-on-one fighting game to its…

Reading Time: 6 minutesBy their very nature, retro-inspired games are fighting an uphill battle against the nostalgia they aim to invoke. How can they form their own identity when they’re partly designed to make you remember other games? After finishing Owlboy, it seems D-Pad Studio might have the answer. For almost a decade, Owlboy has…

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe premise of The Longest Five Minutes is one that immediately grabs your attention. You’re thrust into the climactic final battle of an old-school Japanese RPG, only you–playing as the main hero–have been afflicted by the sort of amnesia that usually hits at the beginning of those games. You’ve forgotten everything: your…

Reading Time: 8 minutesIt’s easy to let yourself be lured into the 1980s world of Crossing Souls. The striking, Saturday morning cartoon cinematics pull you into an equally enticing pixel-art world, where every little detail is likely something significant from your childhood, at least if you’re over 30 years old. But while there is some…

Reading Time: 3 minutesCapcom has announced that the next DLC character for Street Fighter 5 is Blanka and he’ll be available from February 20. A new trailer for the character provides us with a showcase of the latest iteration of the beast, whose visual design looks mostly the same, other than some longer arm and…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s going to be quite a while before another season of Stranger Things arrives. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of things to be afraid of, including one movie starring a fan-favorite from the streaming series. The first trailer for Marrowbone, the upcoming horror movie featuring both Stranger Things‚ Charlie…

Reading Time: 6 minutesOf the many story-driven games that feature user-dictated time travel, Radiant Historia ranks high. This RPG treats altering events as essential to its story, forcing you to regularly jump back and forth between two streams of time. The impetus for this temporal weaving is so well ingrained into its narrative that it…

Reading Time: 6 minutesCivilization VI stands out as the deepest and richest base game in the series, with smart additions and changes that refine its already great strategy gameplay. With that, however, comes the challenge of adding new content to improve upon what’s already there without bloating it. Civ VI’s first expansion, Rise and Fall,…

Reading Time: 3 minutesBackwards compatibility remains a point of emphasis for Microsoft, and those efforts continue today. Although new additions to the Xbox One’s backwards compatible library have been somewhat slow in the new year, today marks the release of another Xbox 360 game that’s now playable on the current-gen console. Splinter Cell: Conviction, the…