Category Archives: Video Games

Release Date: 23rd September 2021 Version Played: Xbox Series S Take one look at Sable and the most striking thing about it will be instantly obvious: it has an incredibly unique art style for a video game, inspired by Mœbius. It looks absolutely…

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Release Date: 22nd July 2021 Version Played: Xbox Series S Last Stop is an “interactive film” type game set in London. It follows the daily lives of three characters – John, Meena and Donna – until they end up encountering some supernatural elements.…

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Superliminal has some very interesting mechanics regarding perspective, with a Portal-like “test chamber” setting and a narrative about using dreams to beat depression and the feeling of not being good enough. The main concept is using perspective to alter the size of objects.…

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Version Played: Xbox Series S Release Date: 16th September 2021 SkateBIRD is a Tony Hawk-style skateboarding game featuring birds (including a Tiny Hawk). For a fun premise like that, a game doesn’t have to be astounding to be enjoyable, it just needs to…

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Version played: Xbox Series S Release Date: 16th September 2012 From the creators of Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread comes I Am Fish. It’s a platform game with the “frustrating control” style of gameplay, hiding its difficulty behind an incredibly adorable graphics…

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Release date: 17th September 2020 Version played: Xbox Series S Completion: Beat one run, tried out all weapons. Not too long ago, I played Transistor, which had a gameplay style I didn’t like (pausing to plan combat), but surprised me in how much…

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Platform reviewed: Xbox Series S Platforms available: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Switch Release date: 7th September 2021 This is what I want from Sonic games in terms of structure. I personally don’t like to be forced to go through “padding” just to reach…

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Fifteen years after the first game (with a VR-only short game bridging the gap), Psychonauts 2 picks up the store a few days after the end of the first (it’s about the same gap I had between playing both games), with Raz joining…

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Originally released in 2005, Psychonauts is an action platformer all about people with psychic abilities. Despite it’s cute graphics, the world of Phychonauts is surprisingly dark, but deservingly so because it’s entwined into the game and doesn’t feel like it’s there for shock…

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Everyone’s first “loop” in twelve minutes will be similar: you get home to your small apartment and your wife has prepared a surprise dessert for you (I’m not quite sure what happened to the main meal, I guess he eats at work?), along…

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