The Heart of Rage. Embers. Scars. The Monitor. Javelins. Anthem is the new online third-person shooter-slash-Iron Man simulator from Bioware due out next month, and the opening hours are a deluge of proper nouns. It sometimes feels like these early scenes were written by a sentient word processor with unlimited […]
Author: Andrew King
Pode Review
Catch A Rising Star
HIGH Strong, iterative puzzle design.
LOW The pulled-back perspective frequently leads to missed jumps.
WTF The Rock can teleport by swallowing the Star.
Interview With… Long Hat House
According to their website, Joao Brant and Lucas Mattos—the pair of programmers at the center of Brazilian dev team Long Hat House— “make games that you would maybe make your granny play someday.”
They say that Brant wrote that slogan while grasping for something random — something that would suggest that anything could come from this then-unknown indie team — and then promptly forgot about it while caught up in creating their debut mobile shooter Magenta Arcade. But, there’s some truth to it.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Switch) Review
A Staggering (and Staggered) Achievement
HIGH The best writing in the triple-A space by a Mesquite mile.
LOW Playing on Switch is suboptimal in a few important ways.
WTF Look, Giant Bomb created an entire award category to talk about all the bonkers moments in this game.
Inside (Switch) Review
Portable Nightmares
HIGH One of this gen’s best indies, now on the go.
LOW Nothing new here for returning players.
WTF The ending is still one of the wildest moments in all of gaming.
Lode Runner Legacy Review
Hitting The Motherlode
HIGH More than 300 levels, and it’s rare to find one that isn’t engaging.
LOW The enemy AI is, at times, very dumb.
WTF This game is 12 bucks?!?
Urban Trial Playground Review
One Wobbly Wheel
HIGH Strong level design encourages maximum air.
LOW No Freestyle multiplayer.
WTF The whole game feels like an artifact from the early 2000s.
The Challenging (But Not Frustrating) Bosses Of Celeste
A heavy, wrought iron gate slams shut behind as you enter an empty, circular arena. Control is wrested from you as an unskippable cutscene introduces an unspeakable, screen-filling horror. Its name slowly scrolls out along the bottom of your TV, a chyron forecasting your death. You’ve done this enough times to know that the only way out is through.
Strikers Edge Review
If You Can Dodge Shuriken, You Can Dodge a Ball
HIGH Headshot!
LOW Online multiplayer is a ghost town.
WTF The Windjammers-as-a-fantasy-RPG structure.
Typoman: Revised Review
Scrabble In Limbo
HIGH The ESCAPE puzzle.
LOW Often difficult to parse whether I was trying the wrong solution, or unsuccessfully attempting the right one.
WTF The MacGuffin is the title character’s left arm.
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