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Roald Dahl's The Witches is an iconic piece of pop culture, but did it really need another movie adaptation? Sure, director Robert Zemeckis is a legend, with movies like the Back To The Future franchise, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Forrest Gump under his belt. Still, can his version be more than just another unnecessary adaptation of the source mat...
Platforms: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, PC Genre: Action-Adventure RPG Hack And Slash Oh, look, it's another rogue-like action-adventure hack and slash dungeon crawler. We've had Greek mythology with Supergiant Games' Hades and we've had Slavic culture with Breadcrumbs Interactive's Yaga, but now UK-based developer Clever...
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch Genre: 2D Action Platformer From The 80s, With 2021 Sensibilities When you boot up Cyber Shadow, its presentation is sleek yet on a vintage level. This is a throwback when games were short but really punishing. A 2D action platformer that separated the chaff from the wheat. A first...
Platform: PC Genre: 2D Zelda Clone If you need an early 2021 retro gaming fix, you should give the indie title Ocean's Heart a go. This action-adventure title plays like you would a 2D Legend of Zelda title: you explore the islands and continents you're in, solve puzzles, kill bad guys, and gain power-ups that make you progress through dunge...
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC Genre: Rogue-Like Action RPG Hack And Slash The most common and well-known fairy tales come from Western Europe while those from Eastern Europe tend to be overlooked especially in pop culture. However, recent games and other media have started becoming more inspired by Eastern European culture and m...
Review by Frags of War. Per Aspera is unlike any other strategy game I’ve ever played (except just one, which I’ll get into a little later). It has elements that seem familiar, but what the devs, Tion Industries, have done is to put them all up together into one very interesting package. What is Per Aspera? Imagine a city builder...
What is the meaning of life? That's a lot more ambitious than simply toys and teenage emotions coming to life. Pixar's Soul is all about that, and a whole lot of jazz on the side. As a result, Soul is probably Pixar's most mature movie to date. While it's still very much an animated movie that both kids and adults can enjoy, it's definitely a f...
Platforms: Xbox Series, Xbox One, PC Genre: Relaxing management simulation on boat, but... No one lives forever. Unfortunately, that is a fact about life. So we have to make do with what we have and build our legacy as best we can. Or just live carefree; it's really up to a person, anyway. Spiritfarer is an indie game about dying and how to ...
There's a lot to unpack here with the arrival of PlayStation 5 in Southeast Asian doorsteps, less than a month after first-world countries received theirs. Instead of the usual swathes of paragraphs, we're going to do an F.A.Q. from the perspective of someone who bought the machine at around this time. Let's dive right in! Why is this revie...
So, here we are with the only surviving superhero blockbuster movie of 2020. If you don't count Sony Pictures' Bloodshot from earlier this year, there hasn't been any Marvel Studios films in 2020. Wonder Woman 1984 seeks to fill that void. Does it succeed? Is it a worthy sequel to the widely-praised 2017's Wonder Woman? Unfortunately, Wond...
Platform: PC Genre: Adventure game with photography ala Pokemon Snap Ever wonder what it's like to be a photojournalist, taking pictures of seemingly-innocuous events and then thrust into a unique situation? Being an important bystander to chronicle life events for a generation? That's Umuragi Generation's main gameplay in a nutshell: taking aw...
Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo SwitchGenre: Turn-based RPG, Retro, Pixel Art Why is it that no one's ever made a Harry Potter RPG? Sure, that Hogwarts Legacy game is coming next year, but it's taken them all these years to finally make one. Well, indie developer Happy Ray Games has beaten Warner Bros. to the punch with Ikenfell...
Platforms: Xbox Series (version played), PC (also version played), PS5, Xbox One, PS4 Genre: Computer RPG mimicking Asimov, K. Dick, and Gibson's depiction of the future The long-awaited sci-fi video game from Polish publisher/devs CD Projekt, the folks who made The Witcher relevant, is out. For the past few months and even a year or so, people ve...
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch Genre: 2D Platformer Puzzle Do not let Drawn To Life: Two Realms' cutesy art style and saccharine music fool you. It is an insidious and devilish affair meant to lull you into a false sense of security. You're better off playing CD Projekt's upcoming RPG if you want a more mainstream and friendlier title, despite ...
Platform: PS4, Android, iOSGenre: Narrative Adventure, Indie I played a bit of Malaysian indie developer DreamTree Studio's DeLight: The Journey Home at Level Up KL 2019. It turned out to be one of the event's highlights for me, leaving with a memorable experience, and I was excited to see more of the game. Fast-forward a turb...
Platforms: Xbox Series X | S, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Genre: Survival Exploration Chillax Love Story, With Some RPG Combat Thrown In I feel Haven's survival RPG moniker is an exaggeration. True, your main characters Kay and Yu can level up their stats, and there's a nifty partner combat system that runs in real-time. But it's pretty simpl...
Platform(s): Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC, PS5, PS4 Genre: Greek-themed Ubisoft open-world odyssey, Breath of the Wild edition Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In this 2020 and video game culture context, the Nintendo Switch hit Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is beaming with so much joy because there are a couple of titles apein...
Platform(s): Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC Genre: RPG set in fictional cities in Tokyo and Yokohama Yakuza: Like A Dragon may not star series mainstay Kazuma Kiryu since his story arc is already complete, but its new lead Ichiban Kasuga offers a new and fresh perspective. Unlike Kiryu, the brash but well-meaning Ichiban has to start from the...
Platforms: PS4, Xbox Series X, PS5, PC, Xbox One Genre: Next installment in Call of Duty's military first-person shooter Coming off a brilliant year thanks to 2019's version of Modern Warfare, I don't blame the folks at Activision if they faced sleepless nights leading up to the release of their Call of Duty game for 2020, Call of Duty: Black O...
Platforms: PC, PS5, iOS Genre: Indie action-adventure from the folks behind Abzu For all of its expansive maps and lush visuals, action-adventure game The Pathless is really short. Clocking in at about 5 hours or less, you can play through the main story where you're a lone archer trying to rid the giant forest island of the Godslayer's red mia...
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