After purchasing the Bioshock Collection for $12 in 2020 and beating Bioshock the same year, then Bioshock 2 last year in 2021, it felt like the perfect time to wrap up the trilogy and get started on Bioshock Infinite in 2022. Rather than another return to the ocean-buried Rapture, Infinite brings us up into a … Continue reading Bioshock Infinite Mini-Review
Sometimes a game comes along that surpasses your expectations in myriad ways. Rather than a bland stealth title, you're gifted a heartfelt adventure sneaking through gorgeous forests, towns, and dilapidated castles. Instead of insufferable characters, you find a group of young adults and a young child that you can't tear yourself away from. The brief … Continue reading A Plague Tale: Innocence Mini-Review
Sometimes a game enters your radar long after its release, even if it's one you've heard about and it continues on a genre you've loved for decades. Yoku's Island Express is one such game for me. This charming little game melds the exploration of a Metroidvania with the precision, accuracy, and stylings of pinball. It … Continue reading Yoku’s Island Express Mini-Review
Tunic is an indie game crafted with love and clearly striving to pay homage to Zelda and Dark Souls. It largely succeeds in this endeavor. However, the game suffers a few weakness that hampered my enjoyment of the good parts and dragged the overall experience down. Tunic Pros:-Beautiful, isometric world with a cute fox protagonist-Players … Continue reading Tunic Mini-Review
Greetings, all! It's been a while! I recently worked my way through Elden Ring and while I had many thoughts that felt worth sharing, I didn't want to commit to writing an enormous review (because this game is absolutely MASSIVE). Enter my Mini-Review! This post is focusing specifically on the things I loved or disliked … Continue reading Elden Ring Mini-Review
Whoa, what?! Surely that can't be right! *rubs eyes and looks again* Good gravy, it's true! The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is 10 YEARS OLD as of today! Where did the time go?! (Hint: a lot of it to playing Skyrim :P) I've long espoused Skyrim as being my favorite game of all time. While … Continue reading Celebrating Skyrim’s 10th Anniversary!
Following my time with Red Dead Redemption II, I planned on moving on to a different genre of game. I have several shorter titles on my backlog and thought they would be a nice palette cleanse after the two and a half weeks I spent in Arthur Morgan’s shoes. But I just couldn’t move on: … Continue reading Review- Red Dead Redemption (Xbox 360)
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