SPOOKWARE from Adam Pype and Viktor Kraus is a gift to a broken world. Easily gaining Halloween Classic status, SPOOKWARE imagines if WarioWare’s namesake was less of a stinky capitalist and more of a Jigsaw. It’s one game of WarioWare with a high score of twenty, with one speed up at halfway. It’s tough! The …
No, the virus didn’t get me just yet. Yes, I’m behind and the stress of the world falling apart around me maybe contributed to the lateness of this post. Remember the first thing I posted this year? About how this is gonna be such a fun year for new creative projects and shit? Well, hindsight’s … Continue reading
Half-Life: Alyx’s slow start doesn’t do it a ton of favors. I’ll admit, I’m over a decade out since my last Half-Life 2 playthrough (I’m due, I know.) but I remembered Half-Life being fucking awesome right? Thankfully, after a couple hours(!!) of VR tutorializing, Valve stops playing their hand so close to their chest. Tech … Continue reading
So uh, the last month has been… a lot! Between the plague and the politics, it’s not looking great out there folks. But instead of turning into absolute despair hour (for that, check my Twitter), what if we talked about some video games for a second? Doom Eternal is mere hours away at this point … Continue reading
It’s back! I’ve been looking forward to hopping back on this wagon for a while. First things first: I haven’t played the final episode of Kentucky Route Zero yet. I’ve been playing the game on and off with chapter releases since 2013, but I’m due for a full replay before hopping into the ending. I’m … Continue reading
Being a Zelda-like in 2020 means that you’re facing a ton of comparisons to other games right out the gate. The actual Zelda games, pseudo-Zelda games like Anodyne and 3D Dot Game Heroes, and departures that still retain a lot of Zelda DNA like Hyper Light Drifter. Do I think Lenna’s Inception stands up to … Continue reading
This was the first video game I finished in 2020 because it was only ten minutes long! More people make ten minute games please. If you played Baba is You, this is like that but without the programming languages rearing their indecipherable heads. Developer Jon Topielski sticks you in a big Sokoban grid and has … Continue reading
