Game Reviews

The poorly lit catacomb walls leave little room for escape. The narrow corridors come alive as spectral skeletons rise from the floor, their swords and shields at the ready. Bloated bodies are scattered everywhere, surrounding a fresh wave of enemies shambling towards me, their outstretched hands clawing the air. Unfortunately

Remastered games typically get a fresh look and an express ticket to the shelf with little else to show for their new clothes. Square Enix has a tradition of adding extra things to each of theirs, adding a little bit each time to Final Fantasy remasters, but this time around

I thought pretty much knew what I was getting into when I popped my copy of Ever Oasis into my 3DS. Cute sim games are fairly common now, and while I do enjoy them, they are generally unremarkable, though the addition of a battle system, reminiscent of Final Fantasy: Crystal

“Save the girl.” This is your only instruction when Get Even begins. You play as Cole Black, an amnesiac who wakes up in an abandoned warehouse with no memory of who he is or why he’s trying to “save the girl” — it’s up to the player to piece

Games have been relying on user-created content for years now with games like LittleBigPlanet and Super Mario Maker making a killing off the concept. When The Golf Club released in 2014, its unique means of generating created courses made it clear that the franchise was heading in a different direction

It is rare for a modern JRPG to stray too far from the formula, and the result is a stagnation that is staining the formerly rich and deep genre. Many point to content shifts away from “legendary adventures” towards a more comical style, but a more powerful detriment to the

I’m a big animation fan, and I hold a very unpopular opinion: I really like the Cars franchise, and I enjoy Cars 2 more than Pixar’s less adored fare, like Monster’s University or The Good Dinosaur. Given the source material, it’s a given that the Cars

I feel like there are two types of sports games out in the market today: those that aim for the most realism in mechanics (like the Forza series), and those that focus on goofy fun. NBA Jam was one such title, bringing over-the-top basketball gameplay to arcades, with realistic physics