Video Game, Board Game, Comic Book & Movie Reviews – and more!
Peanut is a cutesy platformer for Steam, which released this week. Though I’d tried an earlier version, I’ve only just managed to give the release build a go. Peanut is the story of the eponymous corgi, whose BAE (yes, repeatedly referred to as Peanut’s BAE in game!) needs rescuing from the villain of the piece, Veronica Vet. There’s a short […]
I spent the best part of 1989 and 1990 being absolutely obsessed with the second Wonder Boy game, Wonder Boy in Monster Land. I’d played it on one of my […]
Imagine my surprise when I got the email. The game name, proudly displayed right there in the subject! So why am I being so coy about it? Why the innocuous screenshot to open the article with? Why use the most clickbaity of clickbait headlines? Well…you’ll soon see why. Ladies and gentlemen, I present: I swear I’m not making this up. […]
Let’s get one thing clear before we go any further: Daggerhood is tough. Brutally so. Even though I admit my reflexes aren’t as quick as they used to be, I […]
Coming across like an interactive version of the disturbing Eastern European cartoons – occasionally glimpsed late at night in the 80s, if you lived in the UK, on BBC 2 or Channel 4 – Vasilis is a point and click adventure set in a monochromatic city where the player, cast in the role of eponymous ex-teacher Vasilis, begins the game […]
The second car-themed game I’m taking a look at this week – following Car Mechanic Manager, and also by Ultimate Games – is Car Trader. In stark contrast to Car […]
Released this week on Switch is a port of mobile and PC game, Car Mechanic Manager. Things start off relatively promisingly with a reasonably amusing, brief cartoon intro; the protagonist, an excellent but unappreciated mechanic, decides to leave her job and set up her own business – fixing cars, fulfilling customer orders and managing your premises is the name of […]
The toys to life phenomenon had already run its course and burned out – leaving huge piles of plastic in its wake – quite some time before UbiSoft decided to […]
There’s nothing quite like Broforce. Sure, there are other run and gun games out there – and there are plenty of heartfelt, nostalgic tributes to the 80s to be found. […]
I recently picked up a copy of Metroid: Other M for Wii; I’d always heard players and critics complaining about it, so I’d deliberately avoided the game altogether. However, when […]
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by the creator of Mr Boom’s Firework Factory with a request for me to take a look at the game. Having been somewhat bogged down with other games to review – which is a somewhat never-ending, but not unwelcome, problem, I’ve not been able to give Mr Boom’s Firework Factory as much of […]
Releasing on the 29th of April in NA, Canada & Mexico and on the 2nd of May in the EU, Australia & New Zealand, Darkest Hunters is an unusual, but compelling hybrid of RPG and puzzle game from Ultimate Games. Players take control of a character – from a pretty generous roster – and make their way through levels by […]
I was enchanted by the magic of video games from an incredibly early age. It’s hard to tell what the first game I saw was, but it was likely Space Invaders or a variation on it; there were always machines in local pubs and social clubs. A social club close to my home had a Phoenix cocktail table, though by […]
Full disclosure: I was contacted by the publisher of Theatre Tales for Switch; they provided me with a review code for the game. Along with this, they very kindly provided […]
