Critique – Cyberpunk 2077

After five months of playing it, credits are rolled on Cyberpunk 2077. My feelings on the game are deeply mixed. At one point it was my most anticipated game, then it released in the state it did and I just refused to engage with it. Five years later, and with Phantom Liberty out I finally […]

Critique – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

There is a lot to like about Spider-Man 2. It is wonderful to play, looks visually stunning, and carries on with wonderfully realized versions of Spider-Man and company. Still, there is also something missing at the core of Spider-Man 2 that weakens it on the whole. It is a game bursting with ambition, but without […]

Critique – Starfield

Starfield is the first game in a very long time that has just wholly enraptured me. It is a game defined by contradictions. Full of dated design language that undermines its ambition it still somehow lives up to the promise of a grand space adventure unlike any other. Bethesda just build these simulated worlds that […]

2021 Games of the Year

This list took me two years to write. I don’t even know. I still didn’t find time for everything. As for that list of games that I missed that I might, eventually, get around to trying. maybe: DISHONORABLE MENTIONS Twelve Minutes: I am compelled to write about this game, but I have nothing good to […]

critique – The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Tears of the Kingdom is certainly an achievement. It accomplishes a level of freedom most games can only dream of. The sense of discovery and invention here is wonderful. Truly Tears of the Kingdom feels like the first open world game to properly capture player agency since Breath of the Wild. Still, Tears of the […]

critique – Resident Evil 4 & Redfall

Resident Evil 4 This is going to be a brief one. After years of hearing about Resident Evil 4 as a genre defining title—not simply for survival horror but all third person shooters—expectations were set high for the remake, and it did not disappoint. What more can I really add to twenty years of praise? […]

Critique – Ghostwire: Tokyo

Ghostwire: Tokyo feels like a game without direction. While the reasons for this are not public one might take a few guesses at the departure of game director Ikumi Nakamura and the Bethesda acquisition as playing some part. From start to finish Ghostwire spins its wheels on a broad ghost fighting concept that never truly […]

critique – Atomic Heart

Atomic Heart is not for everyone. The convoluted open world design alone an issue that hampers a good portion of the games pacing and the moment-to-moment fun. Add to that story issues that are difficult to assign to any one point of failure it is difficult to tell someone to just put up with it […]

2020 Games of the Year

A bizarre year for video games, with the pandemic and everything else going on, the video games industry exploded in revenue as people stayed home. Games took on a new life as some embraced a role as a warm security blanket and others doused the blanket in gasoline. Can’t win them all. Still the face […]

2019 Games of the Year

2019 has been a strange year for games on the whole. With the production of the final few blockbusters this generation wrap up and the next generations blockbusters begin 2019 has found itself stuck. Nonetheless, the games that did come out this year offered some promising glimpses of the next generation. Independent studios especially have […]