If someone ever tries to tell you that video games aren’t art, show them ABZÛ. Few games before have so vividly captured an experience. In the case of ABZÛ, Giant Squid Studios masterfully combines a dazzling, cel-shaded aesthetic and a sweeping, orchestral soundtrack to convey the depths and mystery
Picture this: a cat living a wonderful life with a human family of its own. The family goes for a drive with their pet, stopping at the side of the road near a forest. They all get out, but when they get in to leave, the cat is left outside.
Persona 4: Dancing All Night was one of the weirdest rhythm games to come out in the past few years, mostly because the original game was a distinct JRPG with no reason as to why it should be a rhythm game. However, it worked due to its oddly compelling story
I’ve never been quite so conflicted about a game as with World of Final Fantasy. On one hand, collecting and leveling up your Pokemon (dang it, I mean Mirages) is endlessly satisfying. I had a blast seeking out and evolving (Shoot! transfiguring) these monsters into classic Final Fantasy creatures.
Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu is a very curious game. With this new title, Game Freak has spit in the face of their “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mantra, totally restructuring many core tenants of the Pokémon series. While it initially appeared that these shakeups would
It’s been six years since Darksiders II, and I’m as surprised as the next person that we ever got to see this sequel. THQ folded, Vigil Games followed suit, and the rights to Darksiders were scattered to the wind like ash. Against impossible odds, the team from Vigil
When Hitman (2016) was announced as an episodic game developed by a studio I’d never heard of called IO Interactive, I was skeptical, to say the least. To my surprise, that game brought a fresh new take to a franchise that had gotten stale and ended up being one
Cartoons have evolved tremendously over the years, making their way from being simplistic, black and white amusements to complex and colorful creations that grace our screens today. While today’s animation has been streamlined by the advent of CGI, the cartoons of yesteryear were born out of weeks of painstaking
