Game Reviews

I confess to feeling a bit of envy for my friends who seem to be able to focus on a single game and then finish them within a reasonable timeframe. Some of them can plow through a 100 hour RPG in a month and then move on to the next game and finish it just as consistently. When I ask them how they c...

The basic conceit of an open-world game is that it gives you a world that you can freely explore, without the more common rail-roading from Level A to Level B. What this really means can differ from people to people.

For me personally, it's an escape from my own body: my chronic migraines and f...

Eid Mubarak! Though by the time this blog post is up it'll probably already be a few days since Eid, haha! I've been looking forward to this; not the Eid day specifically, but the one-week holiday that came legally mandated with it where I live. I need this holiday so bad, man. Not necessarily bec...

I know I'm ace as hell because I'll look up smut expecting, wanting, to be aroused and end up feeling nothing much. I'll be reading about two guys (guys being used in a gender-neutral way here) really going at it, all the balls and holes and wet mess and at best I'll be like, huh that's a really cre...

I used to write a "Now Playing" list like these in my old WordPress blog about twice a year or so. It's a way to exercise my writing muscle: I write a mini-review of what I've been playing during those half-year in a no-pressure environment. It... usually ends up being a pressure, though. Easier t...

You started out playing as the extremely cool antagonist ("antagonist"?) and within moments are allowed to jump into the combat. Quickly: here is how the combat works, here are the basic mechanics, here are how the different "elements" matter. Then you transition diagetically to choosing your protag...

Ex Astris is a new game by Hypergryph that—unlike their previous game which I also have not shut up about, Arknights—is a normal game. It's not gacha, it's not live-service. It asks for $10 up front then lets you play the entire thing. It is released on mobile, though, which might be a bit puzzli...

This is a spoiler-free rambling, up until the spoiler tag.

What a game! I cannot say I liked it! But what a game, though! FMV metroidvania, with a merciless prickly little shit of an RNG. Who would've thought such a game can exist!

Do I recommend this game? Answer these for me.

1. Are you inter...

We beat AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative yesterday and oh boy oh boy oh boy. What a game. What an incredible follow-up to AI: The Somnium Files! And I don't even mean that entirely positively! I just want to note down my thoughts. Think of this is a less-organized review.

It's definite...

I've been playing Reverse: 1999 again in an attempt to pinpoint what exactly is bad about the game, why it pushes me away so easily, despite myself being interested in it! It's "style with no substance" sure, but in what way is it style and in what way does it have no substance?

Part of it...