“Spiritual successor” is a fickle term. It denotes that a work is not part of an established canon, but cannot exist without that established effort preceding it. Undertale is a spiritual successor of many games – Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, even drawing inspiration from more modern indies like Cave Story. Yet Undertale

Have you ever really wanted to like a game, but there was that nagging something holding you back from fully endorsing it? Conceptually it’s amazing, but it has that one fatal flaw that brings it down? That’s the way I feel about Jotun. Jotun is a top-down action-exploration

When I booted up Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and heard the series’ prolific main theme, I was overcome with a nostalgia for Naughty Dog’s generation-defining trilogy. As the studio seems intent on ending Nathan Drake’s story with Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, it feels right going

I’m gonna start off this review with an odd angle. Bear with me and it’ll all make sense. My wife and I have decided to sponsor a kid. He’s 16 years old and,despite the fact that Star Wars is popular enough to have spawned its own

If something ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That was the thought that kept returning to me every time I booted up Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance. Everything from the characters, to the attacks and weapons, to the skills and even the overall aesthetic, reminded me time and time

Act of Aggression reminds me of the original Command and Conquer, the one from Westwood that started it all.  Don’t get me wrong, Act of Aggression is solid.  A handful of bugs that spoiled saved games were taken care of quickly after release and the engine runs well even

Stop me when this starts to sound familiar: You are a female prisoner in a test facility that is run by a mysterious entity. You are given a gun that warps the laws of physics, and forced to solve a series of puzzles using said gun. You are spoken to

There are a lot of great family board games on the market today with simple yet engaging mechanisms and themes. What I honestly haven’t seen a lot of is a second stage family game, something a bit more advanced than your basic family games, where the mechanisms are straightforward