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ICEY is basically a one hour Strider-like with some meta-commentary on 'the nature of gamedev' stacked on top of it. It's gimmicky nature is ultimately saved by the unique novelty of the 'Chinese gamedev' perspective. I tend to detest games which revel in self-indulgent indie navelgazing but ICEY is ultimately a lot more good-natured than something like The Stanley Parable . ICEY's narrator oscillates between…
Ever since Steam started allowing budget Anime ‘visual novels’ onto their storefront, it’s become about a thousand times more difficult to actually find a video game on there that’s worth playing. Thanks to Carpe Diem, you can now get a crash course in the genre and come away with complete metaphysical certitude that the genre is indeed best avoided at all costs, in about 15 minutes, and all for the low, low price…
I'm as shocked to say this as you probably are reading it: Doom 2016 is an incredibly good game . I personally enjoyed Doom 3 , but many Doom -fans maligned it when it came out, and rightly so, because if we're being honest, it just wasn't a Doom game, and after the debacle that was Rage -- and to a lesser extent, Quake 4 and Wolfenstein 2009 -- I thought Id Software would probably never be involved in making a…
