Gamers have strong opinions on French game maker David Cage, but his film noir game Heavy Rain is undoubtbly his best, offering an engaging narrative about the lengths that a father, Ethan Mars, will go to find a kidnapped son. The game first appeared on the PlayStation 3 and while the narrative was what made […]
Read more "Heavy Rain Remastered reviewed"Meet Yarny. He’s the lead character in Unravel (EA, multi-platform), a side-scrolling, 2.5D platforming game. He’s made of wool – or yarn – and must use his yarn to help him solve puzzles, traverse the game world and avoid dangers.He’s small, too, so the game world looks massive around him. To help him traverse the […]
Read more "Unravel review: The journey of a character made from wool"Gravity Rush first appeared on Sony’s PS Vita handheld console and it made great use of the handheld’s touch screen and tilt capabilities to guide the game’s heroine Kat around a city called Hekseville, under siege by an alien race called the Nevi. Central to the game is Kat’s ability to manipulate gravity – a […]
Read more "Gravity Rush Remastered: When going upside down helps a lot"Note: I‘ve tried my best not to include images that may spoil The Witness for people. I think I’ve succeeded. The picture on the right shows what I like to call my “toolkit” for whenever I played The Witness, the long-awaited new game from Jonathan Blow, the game designer behind platformer Braid. There’s my smart […]
Read more "The Witness review: When yelling at your TV is perfectly acceptable"Fourteen days into 2016 and reckon I’ve already played my PS Vita more this year than I did for much of last year. I put that down to two things: a) Going on holiday, so my Vita was a nice portable way to replay some of my favourites like Gravity Rush and TxK and b) […]
Read more "How Mike Bithell’s Volume has made me play my PS Vita more"When I wrote for a metropolitan newspaper, I did the obligatory “Games of the Year” write-up, which culminated in my best pick as Game of the Year. I’m not going to do that anymore. I’m not going to decide from the games I’ve played this year (which hasn’t been as many in past years) which […]
Read more "My most loved games of 2015"According to Tauranga, New Zealand game developer Flightless, Element is a real-time strategy game set in space “for people who don’t have time to play realtime strategy space games”. The game is currently on Steam Early Access for PC, Mac and Linux, and over the years, I’ve covered games made by Flightless (most notably its […]
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