Asterigos is a soulslike game for beginners, and more or less all aspects of the game follow that formula. While straight forward and with simpler encounter design, it offers a lot for those who want to get into the genre but find it daunting. There are some amateurish design flaws, the flow can be a…
This may well be called a replica, as the term ‘inspired by’ is more than a little tame. If Airoheart were on the SNES, it would be comparable to Link to the Past the same way Secret of Evermore is to Secret of Mana. Capturing the retro feel, this game is pretty much exactly what…
Considering how much of a slob I am in real life, it is really odd how much I enjoy cleaning stuff in video games. Whether it’s tidying up a mountain side in Minecraft, scouring blood and guts off a wall in Viscera Cleanup Detail, or vacuuming up muck in The Gunk, there is something satisfying…
Bright Memory: Infinite is a single player first person shooter with melee combat brought to us by FYQD Personal Studios. Players take the role of Shelia, a special agent from the SRO who is sent to the site of a major incident to save the world. A black hole has appeared in the sky, and…
Lovecraftian horror has been the inspiration for a wide variety of art, its influence seen in every type of gaming from puzzles to walking simulators to action RPGs and shooters. At this point, the chaos of the unfamiliar has started to become familiar, many of his monsters are easy recognizable, so while this roguelike platformer…
As first person shooters continued their ascent to become the most dominate gaming genre in the industry, fans of the shoot em up style had to accept that their golden age was behind them. It’s been a very long time since gamers were provided a full priced AAA entry, instead being forced to rely on…
Ayo the Clown is a platformer built on the stronger foundations of the genre that is both adorable and charming. While it is a very competently built game that aims to send everyone home happy there are a few small instances where it trips itself up over its own ambitions. Graphically the team behind the…
When I first booted up Tunic, I was briefly back in my bedroom in the mid 90s first booting up A Link to the Past on my SNES. The game looks like a classic Zelda game, it moves like a classic Zelda game, and the hero even looks like someone who could not decide between…
Back in 2017, I played the original Elex. Within the first couple of hours, I was exhausted at the learning curve and the difficult combat scenarios the game threw at me left me confused and aggravated. “Who is this game even for?” I would keep asking myself over and over until I just couldn’t handle…
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