Posts By Patrick Rost
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6.7KReviewsFabri-can we build it? — Elder Scrolls Online – The Clockwork City DLC review
Of the three Tribunal gods in the Elder Scrolls series, Sotha Sil has always been the most enigmatic. While Vivec and Almalexia...
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79.3KReviewsRacing triumph demands an audience: Gran Turismo Sport review [Update]
After encountering some enduring post-launch issues in Gran Turismo Sport that, over the time since launch, have not gotten resolved, we have...
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3.3KNewsThe Elder Scrolls: Legends – Return to Clockwork City release date announced
Bethesda has announced an upcoming expansion for their card game The Elder Scrolls: Legends, titled “Return to Clockwork City”. Return to Clockwork...
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3.7KReviewsWin one with the flipper — Pinball FX3 review
Zen Studios has been in the pinball game for many years now, and I’ve always enjoyed the fun and active tables they...
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6.0KReviewsCyberdimension, had to get away: Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online review
No matter what sub-dimensional world the action takes place in, Neptune and her friends are bound to be somewhere having an incredibly...
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6.5KReviewsNO-SCAR: NASCAR Heat 2 review
Nothing will ever make NASCAR interesting despite the sport’s constant change. Crashes are violent and mesmerizing, but lack diversity. The races often...
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4.7KReviewsMaybe I drive to get kills, baby: Drive Girls review
Video games are so weird. You play so many games and do so many strange things in them that they all start...
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7.4KReviewsReach Boys: Elder Scrolls Online: Horns of the Reach DLC review
Big and small, the additions to The Elder Scrolls Online have always come with a sense of newness and expanded the world...
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6.0KReviewsI’m not afraid to Ys, anytime’ll do it: Ys Seven review
Simplicity really speaks to me. In a world where you can have anything imaginable in any color you like, sometimes it can...
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4.5KReviewsGood football, bad storytelling, can’t lose: Madden 18 review
There is a lot to unpack with the entirety of this newest Madden release, Madden 18, and overall I’m happy to say...
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5.4KReviewsGoing down the only trail that’s ever cold: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel review
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel has proven to be a very solid offshoot of the JRPG series so far....
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4.0KReviewsFour painfully fun adventures: Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 review
Mega Man games are two things, generally: super fun, and way hard. When you’re working with a collection of games that has...
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5.9KReviewsVR, VR, and the youth of the nation: Accel World vs. Sword Art Online review
Virtual reality is the next hot item in the gaming universe, but not all of us are so blessed to be able...
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3.9KReviewsDown with the sickness: Dark Rose Valkyrie review
It is rare for a modern JRPG to stray too far from the formula, and the result is a stagnation that is...
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6.4KReviewsTo the East, to Morrowind: Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind review
Vvardenfell is a place like no other. Dense, steamy swamps welcome adventurers in the south, leading them inland towards lush grasslands, misty...
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3.8KReviewsSturdy and steady, like the castle: Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada review
After the dust settles and the blades are withdrawn into their sheathes, only the strongest of warriors remain standing. Those who litter...
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7.2KReviewsAgony and misery, in a billion words or less: Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception review
When I see a term like “visual novel” I expect the visuals to capture the ongoing storytelling, allowing me to just sit...
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4.8KNewsHarvest Moon: Save the Homeland now available on PlayStation 4
Natsume Inc. has announced that Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland is available digitally for the PlayStation 4. The new digital download of...
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4.1KReviewsHeavy Metal pencil punishment: Drawn to Death review
Doodling obscene and bodacious ephemera into a notebook is easily the most satisfying memory of my high school days, and I could...
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4.1KReviewsSix games (woo ooo!): The Disney Afternoon Collection review
Most licensed games for the Nintendo Entertainment System were pretty lacking, but that was not the case for a series of releases...
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5.5KReviewsNever let good enough be enough: Out of the Park Baseball 18 review
The birds are chirping, the flowers bloom, and the bat’s crack against a baseball rings in the rebirthing season of spring. A...
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9.9KReviewsVery clean, but never simple: Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX review
Kingdom Hearts was a communal experience for me and my friends. We played the game at the same time, and discussed various...
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3.9KReviewsDeath machine, infest my corpse to be: Toukiden 2 review
Is there any more profound state of being than “hit and miss?” To not be terrible, but not great either, a dualistic...
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5.4KReviewsMeow-t of the frying pan, into the fire: Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight review
Have you ever played an old 8-bit style video game on a modern console in front of someone old enough to remember...
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7.5KReviewsRoll away the stone: Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey review
Gust, the developers of the Atelier series, seem to approach each game with the same philosophy that goes into their trademark alchemy...
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6.5KReviewsIf I had a Digimon, I’d Digimon in the morning: Digimon World: Next Order review
Digimon has always felt like the weird cousin of the monster collecting games, not quite as stylish and dramatic as its more...
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4.3KReviewsPlastic bits having nighttime fits: Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found review
Toys coming alive is somehow a consistently winning formula. Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found takes that formula and plunges it into...
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7.9KReviews500 Floors Above Me in the Tower of Barbs: Let it Die review
Death is scary, but it would be a bit less so if I knew I got to come back and beat up...
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2.2KNewsReturn to Morrowind in a new chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online
Bethesda Softworks has announced The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind, the next chapter of ZeniMax Online Studios’ online RPG, The Elder Scrolls Online....
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5.4KReviewsFragments so small you’ll never find them all: Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue review
Kingdom Hearts, in all its bizarre glory, has relished in the use of numbers and symbols to creep slowly towards the final...
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5.8KReviewsAll of life is peaks and Shallies: Atelier Shallie Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea review
The Atelier series has become a steady source of incredibly fun JRPGs in the past few years. Routinely releasing a new game...
