Poor Captain Olimar can’t catch a break. Seemingly on the same planet as before, the protagonist of the Pikmin series has lost his way yet again in Hey Pikmin. As the series’ debut on the 2DS/3DS, it’s significantly different than the GameCube and [...]
The primary purpose of background art in adventure games is to be part of the gameplay. It’s where the locked doors, the mazes, the inventory items appear; it’s where the characters have to walk around, jump across, and swim through. Beyond [...]
Accel World VS Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight (PS4 [reviewed], PS Vita) Developer: ArtDink Publisher: Bandai Namco Games Released: July 7, 2017 (NA/EU/SEA), March 16, 2017 (JP) MSRP: $59.99 (PS4) $39.99 (Vita) Accel World VS Sword Art Online: [...]
Nioh: Defiant Honor (PS4) Developer: Team Ninja Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment (Worldwide) / Koei Tecmo (Japan) Released: July 25, 2017 MSRP: $9.99 (DLC), $24.99 (Season Pass) This time you’ll visit Osaka Castle, a neon showy temple and a [...]
Pyre (PS4 [reviewed], PC) Developer: Supergiant Games Publisher: Supergiant Games Released: July 25, 2017 MSRP: $19.99 In Pyre you play an unnamed outcast exiled to the Downside, a desolate and dangerous land inhabited by others who have at some point [...]
The real world and magical realm interact with each other in a way that makes it difficult to discern how much of it is really intended as metaphor, and Rakuen doesn’t exactly strain to define that boundary. The question of whether or not this magic [...]
There was a long slog between A Realm Reborn and Heavensward that was the bane of every player who joined late in the game. Notably, there was a lot of grumbling about the fact that Heavensward’s new classes were locked behind a wall of Main Story [...]
You are minding your own business, cruising through the Caribbean, when you hear a scratchy distress call over the radio. A young girl is begging you to come to the rescue of her family, part of a scientific expedition now trapped by treasure-seeking [...]
