Tag: books
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CONTROL Resonant Mega Review — A Love Letter to Remedy’s Beautifully Broken Reality
We’ve been fans of Remedy Entertainment ever since their first games. Max Payne and Max Payne 2 hold a special place in our hearts and, to this day, we still find time to come back and play the second one. The Alan Wake games, especially the first one, were equally amazing, particularly because we were…
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BLACKSHARD Review – Getting Lost in a Senseless World
From the first few steps into Blackshard’s Labyrinth, we found ourselves staring at things that seemed impossible to explain. Enormous structures rise from empty spaces, walls lead nowhere, and strange combinations of geometric shapes create places that feel more like someone’s impossible dream than somewhere people were ever meant to live. BLACKSHARD is a beautiful…
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Graveyard Keeper 2: Managing the Management of the Undead
Graveyard Keeper came at a time when we were absolutely fed up with farming games and their same old, rather worn-out gameplay mechanics. It caught us completely by surprise. We didn’t expect to be dealing with corpses, digging graves, removing organs and finding increasingly questionable ways to make money from the dead. Did we find…
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Onimusha: Way of the Sword Review – A Sword Worth Waiting 20 Years For
Onimusha is a well-known series, and if you were a PS2 gamer back in the day, you were blessed with not one, but five main games and two spin-offs. Those games were praised for their unique setting and insane amount of action, but what we loved most was that Capcom wasn’t afraid to experiment. The…
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Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth PS5 Review – A Winter Adventure Full of Heart
Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth is a game that is like a fairytale, and the opening reminded us of children’s books that we used to stare at in awe as kids. Everything is wonderfully drawn and subtly animated, which, in combination with the atmospheric soundtrack, really pulls us into the world. We started playing the game with…
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Agent 64 Interview: Bringing Back the Old-School FPS
Agent 64: Spies Never Die is like the FPS games we played on the N64. In our review, we saw that it keeps the things that made them fun, and bring them into a modern game. However, getting the balance right between old-school design and modern expectations isn’t always easy. We spoke with Replicant D6…
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The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410 – Building Our Medieval Dynasty
The Guild games always escaped us, and even though they’ve been sitting in our library for years, we never got around to playing them. The series started with Europa 1400: The Guild in 2002, followed by The Guild 2 in 2006 and The Guild 3 in 2022. We remember people speaking fondly about the series,…
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Kernel Hearts Review – Making Every Second Count
With Kernel Hearts you go into the Tower of Babel, beat up angels, collect everything that isn’t nailed down, become stronger, and try to get as far as you can before things go horribly wrong. Then you return to Babel, take a breather, get to know the people around you, grow closer to your allies…
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BLACKWOOD Review: A DVD Store Owner With a Very Different Night Job
There is no question that BLACKWOOD is heavily inspired by the John Wick movies. From the way Anton checks his weapon to how he moves, takes cover and deals with enemies, the influence is there from the first few minutes. Far from us minding it. There aren’t many games that let us play out this…
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Interview about Sushi On Wheels: Taking a Food Truck Around Izu
For Neil, Sushi On Wheels started with a place rather than a game mechanic. After spending time living in Japan and travelling outside Tokyo, he found himself drawn to the smaller towns and communities that don’t get nearly as much attention in games. The Izu Peninsula was one of those places. It became the setting…
