Self-purchased. Reviewed on Nintendo Switch. When “Raji: An Ancient Epic” appeared at Nintendo’s recent Indie World Showcase, it left quite the impression. The trailer’s striking visuals and driving music immediately captured attention, and its surprise release as a timed exclusive for Nintendo Switch emerged as one of the event’s highlights. But now that we can […]
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Self-purchased. Reviewed on Switch. Kentucky Route Zero is a fantasia of light and sound, a lucid dream rendered from the Southern subconscious, a distorted fable that mines the core of Kentucky’s folk culture until it’s as strange and alluring as a raw diamond. It feels like Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism transplanted into the U.S.
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Review copy provided by EA. Reviewed on PC. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order reminds me of those Top 40 hit compilations you see advertised on TV. Featuring all of the year’s biggest hits on one disc! But this time they’re performed by a Star Wars themed cover band! They could have called it Now That’s
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Death Stranding is a distorted vision of the open-world genre, pulled apart by its individual threads, deconstructed, and sewn back together in the image of its director, Hideo Kojima. It’s obsessed with religion, with folk religion, with birth, death, the afterlife, social connections, social media, social isolation, social strands (whatever those are), video games, films,
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Review copy provided by 505 Games. Reviewed on PC. Introduction If Remedy Entertainment’s 2010 potboiler Alan Wake is Stephen King, their new game, Control, is Stanley Kubrick. King hated Kubrick’s legendary film adaptation of The Shining, which stripped back much of the novel’s emotional core to a cold, sinister slice of pure anxiety. And fans
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Self-purchased. Reviewed on PC. If we are to judge Nioh by its cover then it may seem like another ARPG shilling on the popularity of Souls games with a protagonist that frankly looks quite an awful lot like Geralt. However, the more hours I invested in Nioh, the more I realised how painfully erroneous that
