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All reviewsShadow Complex2009
5 out of 5 starsWhen it comes to side-scrolling games, I don't really know anything, as the closest I've ever come to one is Metroid Prime. But I still enjoyed Shadow Complex immensely due to the exploration, experience system, and leaderboards. You start the game off with a total bad*ss, who has practically every upgrade and weapon. After you complete an objective, the story is revealed to you. Sort of. You then cut to Jason, a…
The Conduit2009
3 out of 5 starsThe Conduit is a first person shooter that caught me with promises of having the most customizable and fuctional control scheme on the Wii, and the new technical engine made to take full advantage of the Wii's hardware. The game did deliver those things for me, and the gameplay was great fun. But the actual desgin of the game is bland, unispired, and dull. The story of the game revolves around Mr. Ford, a Secret…
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All articlesReturnal Eight Months Later
Dec 28, 2021
When Returnal first came out in April this year -- and what a year -- I knew I was going to absolutely adore it. Everything about the look and sound, cribbing from such distinct sci-fi horror sources as Edge of Tomorrow , Prometheus , and Annihilation , just worked for me, in a way that made me rather annoyed that I didn't have a Playstation 5 to actually play it on. And yet, the initial reacti...
Resident Evil Village: 7 Was Not a Fluke
May 10, 2021
Can we take a moment and admire the total renaissance Resident Evil is experiencing right now? From about 2012 ( Resident Evil 6 ) to 2016, the series felt, for all intents and purposes, dead. The action slant that had begun with the brilliant Resident Evil 4 —its innovative over the shoulder camera (something something Killswitch did it first something) combined with its taut pacing creating a...
Hunt: Showdown and Encouraging Design
Apr 13, 2021
“Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game.” –Soren Johnson A while ago, I posted a lengthy diatribe against Cyberpunk 2077 . I had plenty of issues with it: the story didn’t resonate with me, the gameplay wore out its welcome before I had finished all of its quests, and I left feeling that the experience was empty—not just in the lack of thematic follow-through, but in...
Tenet is Nolan's Most Interesting Misfire [OPEN SPOILERS]
Dec 20, 2020
Warning: SPOILERS for pretty much every Christopher Nolan movie. Including Tenet . Let no one say that Christopher Nolan is devoid of ambition. A man who loses his memory every few minutes, his story told in reverse. A professional thief who not only breaks into his target's dreams, but creates those dreams for them to inhabit as well. An astronaut who saves the Earth by communicating with his...
Crysis Remastered is... Fine. Initial Impressions.
Sep 19, 2020
The distant future of 2020 is here! We don't have nanosuits, as Crytek predicted, but we do have Crysis Remastered , 13 years after the original release in 2007. Unfortunately, as a big fan of the original game on PC... this is at best, a flawed representation of Crysis , and at worst, straight-up unfaithful to the original. Story time! Crysis for the PC was the game that got me into custom bui...
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