Childhood favorites revisited
If you can't do the time, play this game instead
"Better dead than red, asshole!"
I remember being intrigued by the reveal of the very first Lost Planet game (Lost Planet: Extreme Condition). I eventually got around to borrowing the game from a friend years after its release and playing through the entire thing on the Xbox 360. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is like trying to survive an alien snowstorm while wearing lead boots. The controls feel like Wayne is perpetually walkin...[Read More]
Great game bogged down by a shitty checkpoint system
Team Ico had a solid legacy of critical acclaim with their first two titles. The fittingly named 2001 debut video game ‘Ico’ was a decent success and grew in popularity as the years went on, garnering a cult following. I personally enjoyed Ico and thought it was a charming and unique little game, but like most, the studio earned my fandom after their titanic hit ‘Shadow of the Colossus’. Fans were...[Read More]
Welcome to (BUY HERE) Stray, where you play as a street smart kitty navigating through a post apocalyptic neon lit world. If you’re a cat lover, stray is the ultimate wish-fulfillment game. Feels almost as though they took my own orange cat and put him into the motion-capture suit for a day then made it into a game about a robotic dystopian city with a cat traversing it. The only issue really with...[Read More]
As far as remakes go, (Buy Here –>Resident Evil 4 is the cream of the crop. In the last decade or so, the gaming industry has been swarmed with, Remakes, Remasters, Reboots, Reimaginings, etc. Many gamers have been open to the idea of their favorite games receiving the update treatment. The mainline Resident Evil games seem to all be going through this process with Capcom’s new RE Engine. RE...[Read More]
The gaming industry has been killing it with the remakes lately. Just when we thought that everyone was fatigued by retreading, Capcom showed us that sometimes a remake can even surpass the original. The latest Dead Space does just that. The 2023 remake of Dead Space (<– Buy Here) is a masterclass in modernizing a beloved classic while staying true to its roots. From the moment you step b...[Read More]