Layers of Fear (2023) Review Layers of Fear (2023) is both a remake, a refinement and an expansion of the series as a whole. This is not a simple new coat of paint, you can tell a lot of love has gone into this collection. In this package, you get remakes of Layers of Fear, […]
Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook Review Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook plays like a mix between a Mystery Dungeon game, with elements of Disgaea and perhaps a little bit of Dragon Quest Builders. You get to design your own character picking from quite a large cast of class types. The colourful character designs are great
Puzzle Bobble Everybubble! Puzzle Bobble is a series that I have played for years it may just be my favourite puzzler of all time and I’ve played it on numerous systems over the years. So, I was super excited to try out Puzzle Bobble Everybubble! Just in case you are unfamiliar with the series, Puzzle
Hunt the Night The main storyline in Hunt the Night revolves around Vesper, an agent of a group known as the Stalkers. There are some clear Bloodborne inspirations to the story including a strong theme of crows and the fact that all of humanity is trapped in the ‘night’, an eternal nighttime where monsters roam
R-Type Final 3 Evolved R-Type is such a long-running series and was one of my entry points into what I used to call ‘shooters’ but now have to call Shmups, a single ship going it alone against hoards of enemies with tons of bullets, lasers and explosions to watch out for all while trying to
Cannon Dancer / Osman Review Cannon Dancer / Osman was created as a kind of spiritual successor to Strider and there’s definitely a lot of Strider’s DNA present in the game design, but I would say that is low-hanging fruit for comparison and would instead liken the game to the 1993 Super Nintendo game Run
GrimGrimoire OnceMore Review Vanillaware’s classic 2007 PlayStation 2 title GrimGrimoire has finally seen a rerelease for modern consoles. The core game and narrative are the same but there’s been quite a few quality-of-life features added to help modernize the game. At its core GrimGrimoire OnceMore is a 2D real-time strategy game with sections akin to
Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key is the final game in the Ryza (or Secret) trilogy and the 24th overall game in the long-running Atelier series. I’ve played through and reviewed all of the mysterious series before but never played any of the two previous Ryza titles, which are often
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Meg’s Monster Review Meg’s Monster advertises itself as an RPG but in fact, I would say the game plays a little more like an interactive visual novel. You don’t actually play as Meg, the game starts out with a young girl (Meg) being dumped into an underworld full of monsters with many of them wanting
Hitman: Freelancer Review The rebooted series of Hitman games have once again got a slight rebranding. The trilogy which started with Hitman (2016) and ended with Hitman 3 is now sold as one combined package known as Hitman: World of Assassination. Along with the rebrand and repackaging comes an additional mode Hitman: Freelancer which is
