Reviews

The battle royale space has been crying out for a little bit of innovation. This absurdly popular and, in turn, overcrowded genre has seen a deluge of wannabe titles in recent years that riff on the same formula with little to no variation…

Tribute Games has taken on a mission of revitalizing game styles from previous generations, and Panzer Paladin is a laudable success in that effort. The side-scrolling futuristic action game borrows most prominently from the Mega Man series…

The first-person shooter genre is well-worn territory, but 2016’s Superhot effectively innovated by creating a unique scenario where the action only unfolds when you move. The result was a more strategic, almost puzzle-like shooter, giving…

Right off the bat, Creaks is pretty unassuming. Controlling an unnamed everyman in his average bedroom, you fix a shaky lightbulb and a peeling piece of wallpaper. But after the wallpaper peels one too many times, you take a look behind it…

Arena shooters are a dime a dozen these days. Ever since Overwatch, you can hardly turn around without seeing team-based shooters with a colorful cast of characters. It’s a crowded field. So how does Rocket Arena, the newest of these games,…

In recent years, the successful revivals of Crash and Spyro have proven that older, beloved franchises that were thought to be dead still have a lot of cache in the market. Destroy All Humans! was never as huge as those…

All great works are products of their particular era. However, some pieces of art reach beyond those bounds; it’s why literature students still read Shakespeare, and why Citizen Kane is still considered one of the best films ever made.…

Last year’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was a loving tribute to the PSone classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and its beloved successors, which were developed by Koji Igarashi. However, a year before the release of Ritual of…

It’s not unfair to say that Paper Mario: The Origami King faced the initial hurdle of a lot of skepticism from players leading into its release. While in its heyday, the Paper Mario series delivered some of the most beloved games ever, such…

Deep within an underground laboratory, tests are being conducted on an amorphous alien that, depending on how it is positioned, appears to be either all tentacles or teeth. This creature doesn’t want to be contained, and would like nothing…