Game Reviews

There are certain studios that define the earliest memories of gamers like me. Their collective imaginations helped lay the foundation for the cinematic masterpieces we experience today. Cyan Worlds is one of those studios. The Myst series, Obduction, Firmament, and Uru transported us to new worlds, telling wonderful stories through

As the saying goes, you can’t teach an old monkey new tricks. Not because it’s physically impossible, but because it risks upsetting the carefully balanced appeal of trapping the monkey in a ball and rolling it around. The Super Monkey Ball series has historically struggled with how to

Let’s think back to February 17th, 2021. We see the teaser for a game called Star Wars: Hunters, a team-based hero fighter from the company Zynga. Fast forward to 2022 as the company announces the delay of the game. Now, in 2024, the game is released for free on

The Kingdom Hearts series has been on PC for a few years now through the Epic Games Store. You can read that review here, but the gist is that they’re great ports. They look good, there’s full keyboard and mouse support for every game, and they run pretty

While most of the world hunts monsters for protection and use in daily life, in a corner of the wilderness lies a settlement of people who live in harmony with monsters. These Riders work together with their Monsties in tasks big and small. Both walks of life lived apart, yet

Sitting atop the throne of God, you wonder how your journey here could have gone differently. Who’s lives could you have saved or ended? Could new powers have allowed you to further assert your will? Or would share the burden with others? Such musings can be dangerous for a

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is one of those games I’ve always meant to play. It’s an artsy action game that’s a loose adaptation of the book of Enoch from Judaism, which sounds exactly up my alley. It was on the PS3 and 360 back in

Long ago, in a small part of the Mushroom Kingdom, there was a beautiful city, made of stone and marble. However, a terrible calamity struck the town, and it sank beneath the waves. One thousand years later, a hive of scum and villainy has risen in its place: Rogueport. Princess