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Stardew Valley appears at first blush an unlikely candidate to be a smash hit release in 2016 amidst AAA crowd pleaser shooters like The Division and new instalments in stalwart franchises like Street Fighter V and Far Cry Primal. However, this independently developed farming focused life sim, with very little fanfare rocketed to the top ten in both Steam sales and concurrent users within the first fortnight of its…
* I wrote some amount of my thoughts on why Persona 4 is great for Review A Great Game Day . It’s less of a proper review and written more in the style of ‘review a game you love’, which feels more in keeping with the aim of the project and the style of other reviews. Get it on my BLOG as well. * Persona 4 is a JRPG: part Twin Peaks murder mystery, part Stephen King’s IT tale of youths uncertainty in the face of…
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero pushes the boundaries of what has been attempted by downloadable content, attempting to bring dead rising 2 in microcosm to its hoards of hungry moaning fans for a bargain price. The price itself is of note, 400 microsoft points is definitely a tempting proposition and while there is plenty to love about Case Zero, there are a number of small quibbles to deal with and the design itself must…
Facebreaker is a boxing themed fighting game, and to call it a boxing game would be absurd as beyond characters fighting in a boxing ring while wearing boxing gloves, all aspirations to the sport are purely cosmetic. Recharging health bars, a throw button and ranged attacks are just some of the features that place this game firmly in the fighting game genre, and while the aim was to create a lighthearted accessible…
Nelson Tethers is a new IP from Telltale games , a company with a pedigree for developing and reinvigorating adventure game franchises with panache and humor. While Telltale is known as one of the few developers to succeed in producing games episodically, Tethers is a standalone title based upon the unusual comic series Grickle , the brainchild of animator and all around pleasant Canadian Graham Annable . Nelson…
