As several moderately innovative and popular intellectual properties wore their welcome (God of War, Uncharted, Batman), the over-extended […]
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As a first foray into the jump button, grappling hook and ‘character action’ side of action RPG video […]
BACKLOG is a “whenever the fuck I feel like it” video game blog feature focusing on how I’m […]
Before I’d compulsively bought the eleventh ‘main’ series game in Ubisoft‘s Assassin’s Creed franchise I took stock, as […]
The hilariously steadfast Dungeons & Dragons aped dice-rolling traditions of Japanese role-playing games in the late 80’s and […]
Well damn, now that I’m sitting here looking back on the year I spent playing video games it […]
Awakening as an unknowing beast, an adept and undying predatory soon-to-be sleuth unleashed within his native London serves […]
The more I rip from the bowels through the crown of the staggered ability loops and exploration-as-a-reward ethos […]
If the genius of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is to be considered as such today, in terms […]
BACKLOG is a “whenever the fuck I feel like it” blog feature focusing on how I’m progressing through […]
BACKLOG is a “whenever the fuck I feel like it” blog feature focusing on how I’m progressing through […]
Taunted by indecision, stymied by mental illness, and in service to a rapidly changing market Owlboy’s quiet ‘old […]
In becoming a fan of anything a crust of blinding idiocy comes with increasing fanaticism. What built from […]
Although never explicitly seen as an overt or cheap also-ran, the ‘bones’ of the Darksiders series’ gameplay have […]
Bloodstained is Koji Igarashi‘s crowd-funded spiritual reclamation of the Castlevania series he helped modernize back in the mid-90’s […]
With my interest in metroidvanias piqued slightly after The Mummy Demastered I began digging through unfinished or overlooked […]
As inalienable as the cartoonish ‘anime villan’ angst of God of War series’ anti-hero Kratos of Sparta seemed […]
If you’ve never played the classics of the ‘metroidvania’ genre of video games The Mummy: Demastered will more […]
Video games can be more than a stupid power fantasy or an escape into an interactive reality but […]
BACKLOG is a bi-weekly (every two weeks) update column on how I’m progressing through “old” games that have […]
