Video Game Reviews, Articles
Anime schoolgirls fighting monsters! Yes, it’s a trope that’s been done to death, especially in Japan, but they never stop cropping up every so often. It’s understandable to be skeptical, considering some rely on the trope, alongside blatantly obvious fanservice,…
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In a gaming landscape where ‘games as a service’ is a constant AAA developer mantra and the video games that don’t fall under that umbrella are (more often than not) exhausting open-world time-sinks, Journey to the Savage Planet is a…
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Do you ever feel like games development companies are trying to brainwash the public with their games? Constant wearing us down to spending all of our hard earned cash in their games? Have you ever wanted to infiltrate them, murder…
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The last week or two I’ve been doing one thing in my spare time – I was playing a game called Horace. Initially, I was a little unsure. While it ticks a lot of my boxes – it’s made by…
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What is it? Gato Roboto is an indie, two toned metroidvania game featuring a cat in a mecha suit. You have to try to make your way through a perilous alien underworld in order to help your stranded captain. Platform(s)…
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I missed the golden age of Metroidvania games, and due to that, have never really played too many. It’s not like I’ve avoided them, but I just have other genres that I prefer to play when I’m in my downtime,…
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Don’t let the bad name put you off, this Metroid mimic has more teeth than most.
What is it? Cave Story is a metroidvania style game developed all the way back in 2004. Since then, it’s received a bit of a facelift and been put onto Steam, and it’s just as fantastic as it was the…
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Alien franchise games have something of a chequered history, oscillating between the likes of the amazing (original) Aliens Vs Predator to the awful Aliens: Colonial Marines. It’s with some sense of trepidation, then, that I approach any title in the…
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