People pay a lot of attention to presentation: across whatever endeavours people wish to compete in in the marketplace, it will most often be in the realms of presentation that products differ. Do you want your breakfast cereal of treated corn to make you feel less ugly than you usually do, or do you want … [Read more…]
The idea of being in a situation where one feels that they are associated with another to be point of feeling their presence even in their absence is one that could fairly be described as bittersweet: knowing that there is another that one cares for in a manner that transcends geography and other constrains should … [Read more…]
When it is 2000, the first computer you have in your house is a 133MHz Pentium with 16MB of RAM with no network connectivity and you enjoy videogames as a hobby, you don’t have a lot to choose from in terms of what your hardware is capable of allowing you to play. With an internet … [Read more…]
Games are ruined. Playing, finishing and replaying Dark Souls has given me nothing more than a pervading sense of ennui around the majority of action games, with action RPGs being particularly affected by the fallout of recovery from throwing myself so completely into the world and mechanics of this wonderful gift of a game from … [Read more…]
Hate Plus is an incredibly well-designed, engrossing, pretty visual novel: this is not all surprising given the high bar set by Christine Love’s previous work. For Hate Plus, however, the standard video game review fluff around mechanics is completely and utterly superfluous: as with the previous games, one could strip away all of the wonderful … [Read more…]