If I were to talk about Papo & Yo in only adjectives, we’d be here a while. The game is beautiful, frustrating, sad, whimsical, painful, colorful, frightening, and even awe-inspiring. Within the first ten minutes of the game, in which the world-morphing powers of the protagonist’s imagination are demonstrated several times, my jaw dropped twice. Read More »
Star Trek betrayed the benefit of the doubt I extended to it by getting worse level by level, which in itself is a marvel. After each introduction to every inane segment, my initial thought was “This just has to be the worst part of this game. There’s no way it can go downhill from here.” Read More »
Evoland is one big meta-joke, and it manages to pull off its gags most of the time. It’s also kind of fun to play but, let’s go ahead and get this out of the way: if you’re here for deep, tactical gameplay that will keep you staring at your computer screen into the early hours of the morning, or if you want an enthralling story, just leave. Read More »
Part of me really, really wants to love Bientôt l’été. It’s a game that displays an anarchic disregard for traditional ideas of what a game should be. There aren’t objectives beyond exploration and experimentation, and there doesn’t seem to be any set victory conditions. Read More »
To be fair, The Arrival, much like its predecessor Slender: The Eight Pages is initially very, very frightening. The game managed to terrify the bejeezus out of me during my initial playthrough because of the game’s effective minimalist design, which emphasized on creating an atmosphere of uneasiness and terror through sound effects and the antagonist’s unpredictable movements. Read More »
Oh, April Fools’. You come, you go. You leave us with mostly lame, forgettable jokes that elicit emoticoned eyerolls throughout various forums and comment sections. To honour the most devious and hilarious gags, here are 5 memorable gaming-related April Fools pranks. Read More »
In need of some good ol’ fashioned scares? The sequel to the independent horror sensation, Slender arrives in less than two weeks. Those who preordered the game received access to a beta version of the game. Three of our bravest (or most foolhardy) writers descended into Slenderman’s territory to discover whether or not Slender: The Arrival is a worthy successor. Read More »
A lot of people won’t like Citadel, Mass Effect 3’s final bit of DLC, because they’re under the impression that the DLC “adds nothing” to the conclusion of the game. Fair enough. Mass Effect 3 wrapped up back in March, after all. Why should anyone want to pay for and play an additional chapter in game that they’ve already finished? Well, sit back and give me a couple of minutes: I’ll tell you why this episode warrants a revisit of the game if you’re a fan. Read More »
