Tag: Opinion
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Five of the Best Critically Misunderstood Games
Relying on aggregate review scores to give you the what’s good on the best of the best video games is, and always will be, a mistake. Generally, sites like Metacritic and OpenCritic are only useful for those who aren’t particularly fussed with the details; gamers who want a general overview of whether a title is…
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Infinite Weekends: In Search of the Perfect Video Game Length
Elden Ring made me incredibly sick. Ever since I managed to finish up the game at exactly 8:15 AM on March 11th, I have had a sore throat, blocked nose and thumping headache. Now, this may be due to the fact that on the previous Friday I went out and drank far too much (and…
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10 Hours with Elden Ring
After three years of anticipation, FromSoft’s Elden Ring was finally released last Friday to universal critical acclaim. Eager to enter the Lands Between, I booted up the game that morning and proceeded to spend about five hours exploring, fighting and dying. Almost everyone else I know (even those with only a passing interest in video games) did…
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Waiting to Die (Consumerism, Hype and Elden Ring)
My brain has an unfortunate habit of fixating on a game I’m excited about, so much so that it actively lessens my enjoyment of anything I’m attempting to play in the meantime. I’ll be the first to admit that this kind of reaction is a little childish, akin to a five-year-old unable to sleep the…
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Bully Review – The Broadest Possible Strokes
To label something as a product of its time can feel like a non-statement, but for both better and worse, that is exactly what Rockstar’s open-world juvenile delinquent simulator Bully (or Canis Canem Edit in PAL territories) is. Released worldwide in 2006, players take control of fifteen-year-old troublemaker, James ‘Jimmy’ Hopkins, as he navigates the cliquey social strata…
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An Overwatch Player’s Lament
Let’s be honest, 2021 was a strange year to start playing Overwatch again. After spending about one hundred hours with Blizzard’s multiplayer team-based FPS at launch (on Playstation 4, no less), I swiftly moved back to less stressful, less demanding games. Overwatch could only keep its hooks in me and my duo queue partner for so long and the entire…
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The Unspoken Melancholy of Terranigma
Quintet’s ‘Soul Blazer Trilogy’, as it is dubbed by fans, contains some of the best-loved, niche JRPGs on the Super Nintendo. While both Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia have their die-hard admirers (if anyone can find someone that feels the same way about PlayStation 1 spiritual successor The Granstream Saga, hit me up, that’s a rarity), Terranigma has always stood as the…
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Weekend at Puggsy’s
Recently, I had the chance to sit down and work my way through Puggsy, a Mega Drive game, near and dear to my heart. I have no plan to talk about the gameplay in detail, but I wanted to write a short piece exploring my personal relationship with the title. As part of my research for…
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Sin and Punishment Review – At the Top of the Treasure Chest
Due to my recent acquisition of an RGB modded Nintendo 64 and an EverDrive-64 X7, I was able to indulge in something I’ve wanted to do for a long time — play Sin and Punishment on original hardware. Often considered the ‘one that got away’, Treasure’s rollercoaster third-person rail shooter was a popular choice for import gamers…
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The Gamer! Beware! Very Official 2021 Game Awards (Part 3)
The final stint for the Gamer! Beware! 2021 awards and the crowning of, in my opinion, this year’s best Best Multiplayer Game of 2021 — Valheim 2021, functioning as 2020’s less than stellar expansion pack, was the year of multiplayer. With weekends relegated to the act of sitting indoors, many people flooded to the internet…
Gamer! Beware! 