Tag Archives: Action
Horizon Forbidden West Review
Platforms: PlayStation 4 (reviewed) and PlayStation 5 Horizon Forbidden West picks up six months after the events of Horizon Zero Dawn, and once again, you’ll take control of the red-haired warrior, Aloy. After taking down a rampant AI known as HADES, Aloy is in search of a way to reverse the planet’s degrading biosphere. Finding […]
Battletoads Review
Platforms: Xbox One (reviewed) and Microsoft Windows It’s been over 25 years since the world has been graced with a Battletoads game. My first and only experience with the franchise came with the 1991 NES game. This game is infamous for its punishing difficulty and like a lot of people, I was never able to […]
I Want To Be Human Review
Platforms: PlayStation 4 (reviewed) and Windows I Want To Be Human is a score attack action platformer about a vampire girl and a hat boy. With love being banned and the girl and boy being caught smooching, they are arrested and subjected to genetic manipulation which turns them into the aforementioned vampire and hat. What […]
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Review
Platforms: Playstation 4 (reviewed) and Windows Video games have generally not been the most nuanced vehicles for expressing the effects of mental illness and that’s what makes Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice so much more impressive. Developer Ninja Theory combined it’s knack for cinematic presentaion with a very taboo topic to create an unforgettable, if flawed, game. […]
Mega Coin Squad Review
Platforms: PlayStation 4 (review), Xbox One, Steam What do you do when you’re down on your luck, can’t find a job, trying to return to your former glory, or need to pay off your outlandish medical bills for a surgery that turned you into a robot? Why, join the Mega Coin Squad of course. This […]
Adventures of Pip Review
Platforms: Windows, OS X, Wii U, iOS, PlayStation 4 (reviewed), Xbox One The hallmark of a great platformer is having such tight, precise controls and intuitive level design that when you fail it almost always feels like your fault. On the flip side, the hallmark of a terrible platformer lies in having such shoddy controls […]
SteamWorld Heist Review
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS (reviewed), Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, iOS Image & Form games continues to impress with SteamWorld Heist, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed game SteamWorld Dig. This time around things will be quite different in the SteamWorld galaxy as Heist has traded in the platforming and […]