Game Reviews

I’m captivated by games which features roguelike elements and dynamically generated content. Pokemon? Admittedly, I’m ambivalent. But when I heard that Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon was out on the 3DS, I had to give it a shot. I was hoping for a decent roguelike title in convenient portable

For those who might be unfamiliar with it, Sword Art Online is a popular manga and anime series which has been taking the genre by storm for the better part of the last two years. The focus of the plot shifts around quite a bit over course of the franchise’

Choices. Action RPGs are always about choices, but King’s Quest’s second chapter carries with it a little more gravity than usual. My review of the first chapter (link here) was spoiler-free but much of what occurs in Chapter 2 hinges directly on the decisions and outcomes of Graham’

Before Guitar Hero or Rock Band broke the rhythm game genre wide-open, Harmonix was already laying the groundwork with Amplitude. A rhythmic shooter where you blast notes to keep the music playing, it was a major step forward in showing that you didn’t need a dance pad peripheral to

[The following is part four of our ongoing Minecraft: Story Mode review. Check out part three here.] With “A Block and a Hard Place,” Minecraft: Story Mode begins a likely too late road to redemption, as Telltale manages to turn what has been mostly a childish series into something with

Though enjoying it greatly, Elite Dangerous has sat in my backlog for some time. A mixture of work and school have kept me from exploring its vast expanses of space any more, but with the release of the Horizons expansion, I found the perfect excuse to get down and actually

Josh’s Opinion Helldivers doesn’t quite capture the intensity and brutality of the many galactic battles we see in films like Starship Troopers or Aliens, but it makes a decent effort. From Arrowhead Game Studios (the makers of Magicka) comes a bread-and-butter top-down shooter that has a few kinks

Hatoful Boyfriend was one of the stranger games I played this year. Both a silly tale of a human girl going to school with, and consequently falling in love with, pigeons, and a striking commentary on visual novels as a whole, it managed to parody many aspects of the genre