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Platform(s): PC (version played), Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS5, PS4 Genre: 2D search action title with Dark Souls-like difficulty Even though 2022's gaming circuit is dominated by From Software's hardcore RPG Elden Ring, there are no short supply of games that emulate that feel and formula. While not apparent at first glance, dev...
Platform(s): Xbox Series (version played), Xbox One, PC, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch Genre: 3D platformer with a marsupial mascot You have to hand it to Tate Multimedia, perhaps the only folks with the best of intentions to bring back an obscure 3D platformer mascot title back to the 2022 limelight. Honestly, was there a subsection of gamers who ...
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S Genre: Action Adventure, Action RPG, Soulslike, Sci-Fi Soulslike games are probably one of the most popular genres right now, but From Software titles (like this year's Elden Ring) are clearly still AAA kings. It's not easy to balance a soulslike game, or make it challenging yet fair to play ...
Platform(s): PC Genre: Side-Scrolling Shooter Coming out of China, Soda Crisis is a fast-paced side-scrolling shooter game developed by the aptly named Team Soda, who previously worked on Snake Force and Chinese conglomerate Bilibili. Team Soda is an independent game developer based in Shanghai, China. Soda Crisis stands as a testament to th...
Top Gun was a 1986 film that made joining the US Navy look cool, created a market for fashionable bomber jackets, and featured a ton of quippable 80s lines and scenes that tread the line between machoness and homoeroticism. In all seriousness though, it was a breathtaking action film with a loveable rogue bunch of leads and was a technical filmmaki...
Is it possible for a long-running show to eventually run out of steam? With the 1980s-period drama scifi horror Stranger Things series, anything is possible. Though for a lot of people expecting the show to run out of plot avenues, you won't find anything to grasp onto for your argument against the show. Stranger Things 4 is entertaining and sti...
Platform(s): PC Genre: XCOM-Like, Turn-Based Tactical Strategy, RPG This year seems to be the year of major Warhammer games, what with the release of Total War Warhammer 3 earlier this year, and now, Warhammer 40000 Chaos Gate Daemonhunters (now that's a mouthful!). As someone with more than a hundred hours of experience playing the XCOM game...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch Genre: 2D Platforming Action RPGing Spin-Off Game Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes was a successful Kickstarter project launched by ex-Konami developers who know that the world needs a new Suikoden-like title. But since making these kinds of ambitious games ca...
Adrian Teh has made a name for himself with his action film P.A.S.K.A.L., which I felt a tad ambivalent about. Still, you cannot fault him for his efforts, as his follow-up action film Wira was of higher quality, at least from my point of view. You could say that The Assistant is the next in line for his action film high budget efforts, with the...
Star Wars' The Book Of Boba Fett Season 1 ended earlier this year with its seventh and final episode in February 2022. Several months later, and we're getting a special one-hour documentary, Disney Gallery Star Wars The Book Of Boba Fett, of how the show came to be and showcasing the process of how it was all made. As a longtime Star Wars fan my...
Leave it to director Sam Raimi, the man behind comic book movie gold like Darkman and the Spider-Man trilogy, to teach this generation's movie makers how comic book movies should be done. That's the gist of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (or Doctor Strange 2 because it's shorter for me to type): a comeback tour from one of Hollywood's ...
Platform(s): PC (version played), Xbox Series, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5 Genre: Top-down action RPG roguelike with platform-shifting mechanic If you need a bit more puzzles to deal with in your next roguelike action RPG of choice, you may want to consider Loot River as your next choice. Developer Straka.Studio may have reinvigorated t...
Platform(s): PC Genre: 4X, RTS, Strategy, Sci-Fi Frank Herbert's Dune franchise is arguably at its highest pop culture zenith right now, thanks to the critically-acclaimed epic that was Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part One film (check out my review of that here) in 2021. It's the best time for a Dune video game to arrive and it's even double the au...
Platform: PC Genre: Quiz game with hard moral choices The Trolley Problem is a timeless moral question where you choose to either flip the switch or not to save 5 people while sacrificing just 1. Or vice versa. It's essentially a dilemma where you decide whether the needs of many outweigh the needs of a few, a paraphrased quote from that one sc...
After being sidelined for many years, gamers in Southeast Asia rejoiced last month when Microsoft announced that the Xbox Game Pass, or rather, the Xbox PC Game Pass, is finally coming to the region (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). At the time of writing, it is now officially available (you can subscribe now by heading ove...
Platform(s): PC (version played), Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One Genre: 2D action RPG that pays homage to the 90s Enix Quintet library With the Live A Live remake coming later this month, it's high time Square Enix and other legacy RPG-making game companies start re-releasing blasts from the past. Personally, I would love the Final Fantasy folk...
If there's any time to check out one of this generation's most bizarre tragicomedies, now's a great time as any. HBO's Barry is a lovely if dark comedy about a serial killer (Bill Hader) who wants to go legit with acting. Along the way, he meets up with acting teacher and mentor Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler)who is a washed-up narcissistic star ...
Platform(s): PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch Genre: Metroidvania, Indie, Retro Cathedral is Swedish developer named Eric Lavesson and Decemberborn Interactive's own take on the retro 8-bit Metroidvania (or Search Action) genre of games from yesteryear. What can you expect from this title? Something solid, but standard, assuming that's a bad thing...
It's not hard to improve upon the original Sonic The Hedgehog movie a few years back; you just have to add more from the video games that it was adapting from and then some. Just one look at the Sonic The Hedgehog 2 poster -the one where it's emulating the 1992 game's US box art- and you know it's a film tailor-made for the 30 to 40 year olds who p...
Many critics and Potterheads alike were disappointed with 2018's Fantastic Beasts The Crimes Of Grindelwald, which was messy and diverted too much from franchise lore. After four years, the sequel is finally here in the form of Fantastic Beasts The Secrets Of Dumbledore. Thankfully, it's an improvement over its predecessor in many ways, but ultimat...
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