Glory to the boomer shooter. After a console generation overly worshiping John Soldierman, we then got a resurgence of “old school” shooters, focusing on explosions, mobility and violence. They’re cartoonish, visceral and high-execution: AKA recipes...
Loot games are a hard sell for me. A lot of them put so much focus on the loot aspect that the gameplay itself isn’t usually fun. Even if they ignore the Diablo-cam like Borderlands, jumping around shooting things is only engaging if a shiny orange gun is spat...
Before watching Wicked, I had to ask myself if I was really ready to see another musical adapted to the big screen. The stage and cinema are two very different media, and the explicit charm of something like Cats (musical) translates horribly to anything where you...
Nothing quite gets a pass on derivative storytelling like Secret Society Fantasy. It’s an ever pervasive genre, from Harry Potter to Percy Jackson to hell, even Assassin’s Creed. At the end of the day we all want to get pulled into a magical war happening...
When you announce new content for a game’s re-release, it’s usually safe to assume it’ll feel like some permutation of the base game. Sonic X Shadow Generations is a little of that, bringing the already excellent Sonic Generations and bolting on a...
If you told me “King Kong game” my first instinct would be to assume it was GTA but you were a building sized primate destroying the city. My second instinct would be to assume it’s Kong Survival Instinct: a Monsterverse tie-in game where you play as...
