Saving Chile (and, you know, the world) can be pretty difficult. Especially when you’re frenemies with the source of the impending doom. You deride the Abyss and its both effortless and indiscriminate destruction throughout the 19th-century South American countryside, but…
Reviews
The Wolf Among Us Season 1 Review
The pages of any Raymond Chandler or Chester Himes novel can make almost any reader feel like a hardboiled gumshoe. You can live in the dark, twisted corners of fictionalized versions of real-life locales, dirtied by the urchins who grow…
The Wolf Among Us Episode 5: Cry Wolf Review
Who’ll protect you from the Big Bad Wolf? TellTale puts a big emphasis on choice in their games these days. The Wolf Among Us’s final episode “Cry Wolf,” and really the series as a whole, manages to become a new benchmark…
Shovel Knight Review
The shovel is a really dynamic hero’s weapon: it can dig up treasure, a well-timed scoop can deflect projectiles, and it helps bring courage in spades. Though really, a shovel-wielding knight doesn’t sounds like a too-reliable hero, but Shovel Knight…
Mario Kart 8 Review
Images bend together as you propel yourself past the rest of pack. The roaring hum from the motor drowns out, fading to a white noise. Dilated pupils and a racing pulse are a damn good sign you’ve tapped into adrenaline…
Monster Monpiece Review
Monster Monpiece poses a lot of pretty easy questions to the player: do you like anime? Do you like anime girls? Do you like card games? Do you like viciously rubbing pictures of girls on cards to make those cards…
Always Sometimes Monsters Review
Adventure games have come a long way since Myst and are enjoying a second wind in this new indie renaissance because of their generally low cost to make and lack of pressure to deliver a product of a certain genre…
The Walking Dead: Season 2- In Harm’s Way Review
I was incredibly worried about this episode. Anyone who read my review of Episode One will know that. I wasn’t exactly lenient during my stay on the IP spoiler casts either. I curdled at the thought of sitting through another…
Child of Light Review
I don’t know what to feel. Since it was first revealed earlier this year, I had nothing but great expectations for this game. Storybook RPG built on the UbiArt engine? That’s a great premise on paper. But by the end…
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Review
Blizzard has a knack to knowing how things should work. Across multiple genres, their legacy has been an exercise in distilling a particular type of game down to its core mechanics, and making them front and center, while adding a…
Moebius: Empire Rising Review
Adventure games have seen a resurgence in recent years. Games such as The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Broken Age have provided a breath of fresh air into a so-called obsolete genre. Now thanks to Kickstarter, Jane Jensen,…
The Wolf Among Us: A Crooked Mile Review
Warning: this review contains spoilers for previous episodes of The Wolf Among Us. A Crooked Mile, being the middle-chapter and the third episode, which usually acts as the climax in Telltale-series, definitely serves it’s purpose as the turning point in…