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Bush Hockey League – Review
Bush Hockey League, formerly known as Old School Hockey is an Ice Hockey game developed and published by V7 Entertainment and is set in the 1970s that takes heavy inspiration from the movie “Slap Shot” and ice hockey games of the past. Ice hockey in general has always interested me because of the very nature of the game. Ice Hockey games have interested me more-so. Not to mention the Mighty Ducks cartoon which really got me interested in the sport. After that it was NHL games that came into my life and cemented themselves as one of my favourite sports game ever. NHL Hitz being one of the more played ones. With all of this said, I was quite excited to get my hands on Bush Hockey League to maybe have an experience similar to the ones that I had with the arcade ice hockey games o...
Rad Rodgers – Review
A game heavily inspired by titles like Commander Keen and the original Duke Nukem, Rad Rodgers is an homage to those classic titles and brings games of that style to the modern gaming world. Also taking inspiration from an Amiga 500 title “Ruff’n’Tumble” and Jazz The Jackrabbit, Slipgate Studios has tried to bring back 90’s PC platformers. Published by THQ Nordic and 3D Realms, Rad Rodgers is available on the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. So, is Rad Rodgers a rad game or is it as outdated as using the word Rad in a conversation? Rad Rodgers has you play as Rad, a young boy with a somewhat insatiable hunger for playing video games. One night he dozes off after a long gaming session only to wake up to find that his console has miraculously turned itself on and...
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT – Review
Final Fantasy as a series is very well renowned for being one of the best JRPG series of games that have come out. With a lot of fantastic installments comes a follow up to the strange all-star fighting game featuring Final Fantasy characters. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a fighting game with elements of action roleplaying that’s been developed by Koei Tecmo’s Team Ninja and published by Square Enix. This game is actually a console port of the Arcade game, Dissidia Final Fantasy and is exclusive to the PlayStation 4. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a battle royal fighter where a team of 3 characters face off against a team of 3 enemies. While it is mainly an arena brawler, it also has a tactical element to it. The game features characters from a variety of Final Fantasy games incl...
The Surge – A Walk In The Park DLC Review
The Surge was a great game with a really good premise which was a lot of fun to play. The A Walk In The Park DLC is a new DLC that gives you a great reason to go back into the world of The Surge. While the A Walk In The Park DLC doesn’t add a lot or change a lot of things from the base game, it does provide a really good addition to the main game in the form of an Amusement Park that has come to life in the worst way possible. A Walk In The Park takes places in an Amusement Park that’s not far from where you originally begin the game. Originally made for Creo employees as a place to have fun in, it was aptly named Creo World, which as we all know is one of the staple names for big amusement parks. This once fun and colourful park is now filled with danger around every corner to...
Skyrim VR – Review
Skyrim is a game that like it’s predecessors is known for its fantastic open-world, quests and is remembered as an overall fantastic game. Originally, Skyrim was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC with visuals that when compared to Oblivion seemed so realistic. Players put in a lot of hours playing as the Dragonborn to bring an end to all of Skyrim’s voes by fighting Dragons and ending a Civil War that had caused so much bloodshed. Five years after the release of the original game, they announced that Skyrim would be releasing for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and PC with updated visuals and all the DLC and would be known as Skyrim Special Edition. People now got another excuse to play as the Dovahkiin. This move had a lot of mixed reception as people were really expecting a ...
Vesta – Review
Vesta is a puzzle game where you play as a six-year-old girl and her robot who are uncovering the mystery of the ruins of a great mechanical underground city. Developed and published by FinalBoss Games, Vesta released on 19th January 2018. Vesta is a young six-year-old girl who lives an underground city that is desolate, with her only companion being BOT. BOT gives Vesta some tasks which would’ve been impossible for a human but is possible for her to do as BOT gives her a helper, a robot by the name of DROID. BOT encourages her to complete this tasks with the help of DROID, since the combination of the two can easily overcome the difficulties of the hostile yet passive environment and solve the puzzles. The game features alternating controls between the two protagonists with Vesta be...
Bleed 2 – Review
A fast-paced platformer arcade action game where you can air dodge and deflect bullets with a katana while shooting enemies with your twin pistols, Deadpool style. Bleed 2 is the sequel to the fantastic indie game Bleed developed by BootDisk Revolution where you played as Wryn, a girl who was on the quest to become the best video-game hero by defeating all the heroes on Earth. Bleed 2 picks off with a massive alien armada invading Earth since all the heroes are no more due to the events of the previous game and it is our job to stop them and defend Earth. The game is a platforming shooter very reminiscent of games like Contra and Metal Slug. You have twin pistols that have unlimited ammo and a katana that can reflect back and deflect bullets which is amazing since you’ll be using it ...
Okami HD – Review
Okami HD is a remaster of Okami, a game that has already become a classic must play game because of it’s uniqueness in terms of art-style and gameplay. Okami combines several Japanese mythology and folklore and has you play as a Sun Goddess who is sent back to the world in form of a White Wolf because a warrior that doesn’t believe in legends decided to unleash an ancient demon that was sealed by you ages ago who goes and corrupts the land and it is your job to restore things back to normalcy. It features a very unique Japanese wood print and painting art-style which ties in heavily with one of the most prominent gameplay mechanics of the game where you use a Celestial Ink Brush to draw things into existence or to perform various gameplay maneuvers. This is inter-mingling of ar...
Feral Fury – Review
Panda marines that are out to shoot, kill and blowup everything on a planet they are invading to turn into a bamboo plantation. If that doesn’t interest you then I honestly don’t know what will. Feral Fury is a fast paced 2D roguelite top-down twin-stick shooter action game developed and published by Skandivania Games, a company from Norway that has a two person team both of whom worked on this game. The game is your standard rouguelite game that features three modes to choose from, namely Easy, Normal and,Hard. Easy Mode is very easy and is not much of a challenge, if you do play on this difficult prepare to get mocked by the game with butterflies around your character and birthday parties at the end of each chapter. Normal is a huge step up from easy in terms of difficulty bu...
Mutant Football League – Review
The NFL and American Football in general has never interested me. Neither has the Madden series. The more arcade-y and faster NFL Blitz is something I’ve played and enjoyed and while games like that aren’t really made now, Mutant Football League is a game tha tries to scratch the itch left by those games. Try, being the key word here. A spiritual sequel to the original Mutant Football League that released in 1993 for the Sega Genesis, Mutant Football League is a kickstarted game developed by Digital Dreams Entertainment led by the designer of the original Mutant League Football game, Michael Mendheim. Mutant Football League is a throwback to games like NFL Blitz and it’s own predecessor with a modern touch added to it. It features many different species such as the Aliens...
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter – Review
Dark, ambiguous and HP Lovecraft-like, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a story about a young boy named Ethan and the mystery surrounding his disappearance. A photoreasltic first person exploration simulator, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a horror adventure game developed by The Astronauts and first released in 2014 using Unreal Engine 3 for PC. It was then re-released on PC and on the PS4 with the unofficial suffix of “Redux” added to it since the game was remade on Unreal Engine 4. The game has finally graced the Xbox platform after it was released for the Xbox One in January of 2018. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is first and foremost a story driven game. The story, that starts off with our character, Paul Prospero, a paranormal investigator receiving a letter from a youn...
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 – Review
With the astounding success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the emergence of more obscure and lesser known characters, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 is a game that really capitalizes on this. With the tried and tested LEGO video game formula, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 adds a plethora of new characters, locations and fantastic interaction between characters to continue the story of it’s own LEGO universe where humour and absurdity go hand in hand. A sequel to the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes game that released in 2013, this new game really builds on that while providing an extremely fun experience that doesn’t strive too far from the LEGO games formula while adding its own touch to it. The game takes place after the events of the previous game where the entire cast of heroes from...