The Remnants Of Game Design
HIGH Reflection on the nature of game design.
LOW A corrupted save file.
WTF The random water treatment plant.
Evan’s Remains Review
Author: David Bakker
Spirit Of The North Review
A Lack of Spirit
HIGH Environmentalist themes of natural beauty and peace.
LOW Atrocious movement and platforming. Glitches.
WTF Seeing the beauty of Iceland in heavily downgraded form.
LUNA The Shadow Dust Review
In Love With The Moon
HIGH The gorgeous hand-drawn visual aesthetic.
LOW A melodramatic and cliché finale.
WTF My companion is a Furby?
The Suicide of Rachel Foster Review
What Remains of A Slow Genre
HIGH The suspense and narrative tension.
LOW Slow exploration between plot points.
WTF Playing a quarantine game while actually in quarantine.
Stela Review
Distant Encounter Of A Third Kind
HIGH Great integration of 3D cinematography in a 2D game.
LOW A horrendous final section.
WTF The Dutch translation is horrible.
Self Review
Kafka On The Holodeck
HIGH The branching narrative’s room for speculation.
LOW Being unable to skip through text in replayed sections.
WTF So which character is real here?
The Executioner Review
A Swing And A Miss
HIGH The epic torture techniques.
LOW My save file getting corrupted.
WTF A cutting sound effect kicks in when choosing to mutilate a criminal.
David’s Top 10 of the Decade
It’s the most anticipated time of the decade. As I rank my pics for the top 10 best games of the past 10 years starting in January 2010, there’ll always be too much left unsaid. I’ve seen the rise of superb open-world games, titles with graphical qualities almost equal to reality’s beauty, and several art games pushing the boundaries in storytelling, world-building or other aesthetic aspects.
This Is Not A Review: Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss
general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title
implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick
recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and
gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Final Fantasy VIII
Remastered, developed and published by Square Enix.
Fit For A King Review
Princess By Dawn
HIGH The simulation of absolute monarchy.
LOW Grinding for gold to get to the next highlight.
WTF I just reformed the church so I could marry objects!
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