Tag: action adventure

UnMetal Review

A Joke 34 Years In The Telling

HIGH The compass gag is an all-time great joke.

LOW A key item disappeared from my inventory and I had to restart the level.

WTF Need Choloroform? Just mix a bottle of Chloro and a bottle of Form!


Seed Of Life Review

Let There Be (Enough) Light

HIGH The environmental graphics aren’t that bad.

LOW The repetitious nature of gameplay.

WTF Being robbed of the “Interact” button because of a bug was… something.


Shadow Man: Remastered Review

The ’90s Are Back, Baby!


HIGH Going back to that comforting oldschool level design…

LOW …Until I found myself lost every five minutes.

WTF Cutscenes and enemies disappearing, for that full ’90s experience.


A Plague Tale: Innocence Preview

A new entry in the ‘dour and grave’ subgenre of action/adventure games, A Plague Tale: Innocence takes players back to medieval France, when everything was filthy, war was an ever-present threat (and perhaps not coincidentally) a horrific disease was killing people by the millions. Whatever else can be said about the game, it comes by its ominous tone honestly — the setting doesn’t really allow for anything else.