All Reviews
During yesterday’s Nintendo Direct, the creators of Octopath Traveler revealed the next game in their HD-2D series, Project Triangle Strategy (it’s a mouthful but a working title) for the Swi...
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier began with a bold mission statement of probing into issues of race and nationalism within the framework of a grounded superhero drama. Marvel Studios has a hab...
Our world is dying. Sometimes, we try to forget that to soothe the pain of an almost inevitable loss, but we know it’s happening. It’s frustrating how hopeless living with that knowledge feels — like...
I was skeptical of Monster Hunter Rise at first. I think most of my Monster Hunter obsessive friends were, too. It’s easy to overanalyze a game meant to “replace” one you’ve spent hu...
Reflections in Crystal is, in many ways, a glimpse into the future of FFXIV as a whole. A.k.a. Patch 5.3, the update doesn’t just conclude one of the best-received Final Fantasy
I’ve been describing Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia to my friends as “What if someone made Fire Emblem, but with six houses.” Throw in a dash of grand strategy (e.g. Crusader...
After three episodes that held to a rigid but intriguing formula, WandaVision’s fourth chapter is a dramatic departure from what we’ve seen so far, a more conventional drama that investigates t...
The universe of Dyson Sphere Program is vast and empty. There are tons of little ways the sci-fi automation game, out now in early access, separates itself from its titanic predeces...
Games that play with physics are often much funnier than games that have actual written jokes. I don’t mean to downplay character-driven, witty writing in games, but the fact of the matter is that a m...
In Other Waters is, at its heart, a simple science fiction story. A scientist follows another scientist to the oceanic depths of Gliese 667Cc: an exoplanet well outside our star s...
One of the few things we all have in common, despite our identities and backgrounds, is being extremely good at collecting regrets — both big and small. You might think that playing almost 1000 hours...
You’re crossing some sort of frozen expanse, guns strapped to your back, clothing a mess of misappropriated enemy armor and what looks like faux fur. Half your squadmates were brutally massacred...
Ride Your Wave continues a trend in recent anime films that explore the beautiful grandeur of water — flowing along with the story itself. It follows on the heels of Makoto S...
The end of the year was a time for nerdy live-action television. The Mandalorian pleased the eternally furious Star Wars fandom before The Rise of Skywalker undid Jon Favrea...
“Do you want to be like me?” asks a man who will be dead in minutes, burned alive in his brother’s arms. His expression, forever twisted by the melted-wax burn scars that cover half his face, is tende...
Death Stranding is in love with the beauty of the natural world. Venture up any of its challenging mountaintops and you’re greeted with a gob-smacking look at the forests and plai...
As a prequel chapter, Episode Ardyn, the concluding piece of Final Fantasy XV DLC, tells the earliest part of a story that already has an ending. The episode starts with th...
2019 is a great time to revive The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, the series’ quirky 1993 Game Boy game. In its day, the handheld entry sported some odd deviations for the ser...
In 1999, Square was in the middle of having its most prolific and celebrated run of mainstream RPGs to date. Final Fantasy VII changed the landscape for everything that would come after....
