Yeah, there was too much of an emphasis at times on “pure” Paragon or Renegade paths (through the fact that only the purest approaches would open up the best dialogue options that could actually bend the story arc in interesting ways), so I definitely found myself choosing “good” options for the sake of collecting Para…

Congratulations, that’s a big one! Dark Souls has been on my backlog for ages (I played as far as those dragons on the bridge a few years back), but I am definitely a bit scared of it. Seems like it will be a huge time investment just getting up to speed with the whole vibe of the game... plus I had to bail on Hollow…

Some of you may remember that I said last week that there were two games tied for first place in this edition of our Game Revue Club in the Gameological group over on Steam. Well, that tie was never broken, so we’ll be discussing both Wolfenstein: The New Order and The Sexy Brutale this time out! Follow those linked…

What Have You Finished This Week?

I have 116 games on my backlog at the moment (some of them were free, but most of them were paid for) and I’d say I literally haven’t even touched at least half of them. I only just recently managed to shake the need to buy all the new things when a new Steam sale comes along. Now I can just wait because they will be…

Yep, that’s what Skylanders is/are, but then of course you need a cartoon (official title: Skylanders Academy) in order to make kids want to buy the damn things. Classic ‘80s marketing strategy.

I think you are maybe thinking of Celeste rather than Florence...?

Hmm, interesting. I did see those at the dev’s website at some point but I wasn’t sure if they’d be any good. I’ll give them a try, thanks!

Cool, as a parent myself (though with much older and more self-sufficient kids, now), I wouldn’t necessarily have guessed that a big game like Assassin’s Creed would work for a parental schedule... but yeah, I could see where that compartmentalized structure could work for self-contained gaming sessions. It gives me…

It’s only recently that I’ve realized how much of a reference point the Spyro games are for a lot of people (I’ve seen games from the series on some “best levels of all times” lists and the like). Personally, the only thing I know about Spyro is that he is the star of the Skylanders cartoon that my son watched for a…

First of all, a reminder that we are now into the final hours of voting for our 63rd Game Revue Club over on Steam:

What Have You Finished This Week?

I found the original No More Heroes to be utterly insufferable— I’m not sure if it was the lawn-mowing minigame or... I want to say, coconut-collecting minigame?... that pushed me over the edge. Very clever satire, I’m sure, but still. I kind of can’t believe they kept making more of them. And more and more. (Note,…

I found a webpage on this:

Aargh, Kinja somehow decided to hide this comment from me until now! (shakes fist) The Banner Saga trilogy is pretty great in my opinion, but of course it is filled start-to-finish with the kind of lose-lose decisions you mentioned there. (For the record, either Rook or Alette is required to die at that point, so it’s…

I really like them. The show is quite faithful to the look of the books, though maybe slightly “cleaner” around the edges than the original art and with a slightly lower proportion of red and yellow (believe it or not). Luke Pearson does a great job with the pacing of the comedy (lots of slow burns etc.) and the sense…

OMG, I almost missed this but you referenced Hilda (and BTW, have you seen the Netflix series? it’s actually pretty great). Now I may actually go back and pay attention to Momodora.

Yeah, as you probably already noticed, the core gameplay is just as tight as ever, plus they have added a few new elements like the mag rope that add even more excitement— leap off the edge of a hundred-foot-wide chasm and then deploy the rope that will get you to the other side. Actually, the one really thrilling…

I’m definitely psyched for TSB, whether it wins in the Revue Club voting or not (you should come over and cast a vote, by the way). Besides all the good stuff I’ve heard about the game itself, part of what has me excited about it is that my brother just bought the game for both himself and our dad at Christmas, so we…

I have a Steam friend who has been massively into this for many years and continues to talk about it all the time. (As with multiple other favorite games of his, he roped me into a match once and that was it for me.) He describes it as a whole bunch of cool game ideas stapled together into a single shambling mound of…