Square Enix have been absolutely knocking it out of the park these last couple of years, churning out top quality titles - Dragon Quest XI, the Final Fantasy remakes, Nier:Automata, etc - like it's going out of style. So when Octopath Traveller hit the scene in 2018, Square Enix's new JRPG with a swanky multi-narrative... Continue Reading →
The Falconeer: another win for solo-developers.
The videogame industry has absolutely exploded in the last fifteen years. There are so many games being developed these days that it would be totally inconceivable to even keep track of them all, never mind to actually play all the newest games on release. In a market this saturated, it has become more difficult than... Continue Reading →
Monster Hunter World heralds a bright new future for the Monster Hunter franchise.
When I think back to my time spent playing Monster Hunter Tri on my 3DS until the small hours of the morning on a school night, never would I have imagined that my favourite franchise in the whole world would one day arrive on my PC. Yet, here we are. There is no greater joy in... Continue Reading →
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen – there’s more to a quality fantasy-RPG than dungeons and dragons.
As a kid, I always considered myself to be a “die-hard fantasy-RPG junkie.” What I meant by that, of course, was that I had pumped an unholy number of hours into Skyrim but had no interest in anything else the fantasy-RPG world had to offer. Tragic. Alas, I regret to say that I spent my... Continue Reading →
Hades is the best thing to come out of 2020.
I think we can all agree that 2020 has been a hellish year. Global pandemics, national lockdowns, political upheaval, civil unrest. It's been truly ungodly. All we need now is for a global famine and we'll have had a visit from all four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the space of twelve months. Aren't we... Continue Reading →
The 3DS era was the Golden Age of Fire Emblem, and you can’t change my mind.
The release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses on the Nintendo Switch was the first time that the Fire Emblem series ever truly went mainstream. Since its release in July 2019, almost three million copies of the game have sold and won multiple awards in the strategy and simulation categories. Despite being such a big hit,... Continue Reading →
Evoland 2 is a deliciously nerdy parody of nearly every videogame ever made.
Evoland 2, another random video game I dredged up from the Humble Bundle “Humble Choice” collection for September. Technically, it’s “Evoland 2: A Slight Case of Spacetime Continuum Disorder” - but this is a relaxed corner of the internet, we don’t use Sunday names here. From the outside, Evoland 2 looks to be another fairly... Continue Reading →
Super Mega Series Review: Monster Hunter on 3DS
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the first ever Super Mega Series Review on this site! This review format is going to be quite different from the others. This time, I'm going to be comparing multiple different titles of the same franchise on the same platform, and seeing how they measure up against each other The... Continue Reading →
Is the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt the Game of the Century?
Let me first address the elephant in the room. I am really late to the Witcher 3 craze. About 5 years late to be exact. And I acknowledge that there is absolutely nothing original or insightful left to say about this game, but damn it, that won’t stop me from trying! The amount of hype... Continue Reading →
Review: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
In August, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, originally released in 2012, is being remastered. I thought now would be a great time to share my thoughts on the title. I found this game in my husbands old PS3 collections, and it caught my attention enough for me to purchase my own copy to play on PC.... Continue Reading →