Gaming Reviews

Creatures of Ava, published by 11bit Studios and developed by Inverge Studios, is a game of inspiration. I don’t just mean that the developers who made it were inspired to create its beautiful world, or that it is the kind…

Growing up, some of my favorite games to play were the Super Mario Bros. games. They were challenging but rewarding platformers, and their simple story and relatively short levels made them easy to just pick up and play. When I…

Sometimes, the most exciting games are the ones you didn’t even know you were waiting for. And while I certainly didn’t have it on my wish list, “first-person Hotline Miami with a focus on kicking doors and enemies” turned out…

I don’t tend to have much trouble generating reviews for this site. I’m an analytical person by nature, and “media analysis” would have to make it into my personal “top 5 things I’m into that my friends and family wish…

I never played Riven. When it came out, I was 1, and by the time I had developed the ability to play video games, I was in it for a lot more bombastic action than Myst, Riven, or any of…

Destiny 2’s new expansion, The Final Shape, has finally released, and with it the end of the Light and Darkness saga. After the raid, Salvation’s Edge, was completed by the first fireteam, players were able to truly finish the story,…

There aren’t a whole lot of free games being released nowadays. And, of those, even fewer are actually free, when you count microtransactions, season passes, and other various moneymaking techniques. And of those that are free, most seem to be…

More than 3 months and 150 hours, I’ve finally come to some conclusions about Helldivers 2. Democracy takes time, alright? For about 2 months, I maintained a (not very outdated) daily Helldivers 2 report. I reached rank 50 (the max…

Dread Delusion is an apt name. In fact, it might be the most apt name of them all. Because every time before I sat down to play Dread Delusion, I dreaded the experience. And every time I sat down to…

Games are, first and foremost, an entertainment medium. In recent years, they’ve even trended towards revenue generation as their primary goal, with publishers worrying less about the entertainment factor and focusing instead on their titles being dopamine drips with microtransactions.…