Honestly, I hate platformers. I’ve made my way through a few titles – like Rogue Legacy, Hollow Knight, and the Mirror’s Edge games (which, yes, I am counting as platformers) – but this section will never get very long.
Little Orpheus: On the Side-Scroller
Little Orpheus is a 2D side-scrolling platformer game from The Chinese Room. Released in 2020 as an Apple Arcade exclusive, it was ported to PC and all the normal platforms in September last year. If you’re familiar with The Chinese Room, you’ll know them for their titles Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture,…
Vision Soft Reset: Time and Reality
Back in 2016 I wrote about this specific little detail in a game called Kingdom, a side-scrolling strategy game where you try to build up and sustain an empire in the face of the inevitable ravages of time. In this game, you pay for upgrades and tools and so on with coins, and there’s this…
Rogue Legacy: The Things We Leave Behind
You know, this wasn’t intentional, but I’ve been playing over a lot of old games recently. Stuff I’ve played before, stuff I’ve written about. I don’t know if it’s a feature of moving into this new phase for the blog, but I’ve ended up back in the early 2010s, when roguelikes broke into the mainstream.…
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst: Getting Good
When should you be good at a game? There are a few different traditional kinda arcs here, right. You’ve got games where you expect to be pleasantly challenged but never overwhelmed the whole way through. These are your typical power fantasy games: they’re about making you feel empowered without requiring anything super strenuous. It’s Call…
Downward: A Review
I’ve talked before about how I don’t do reviews. Well, today we’re breaking that rule. I don’t have a general point to draw out of Downward, but it’s such a great game that I wanted to talk about it. Great graphics, great level design – at least in terms of the visuals – and awful, awful…
Hollow Knight: Video Game Genre
I started playing Hollow Knight (2017) with the mistaken belief that it had come out in 2016, around the same time as Hyper Light Drifter. Actually – the story gets worse – I bought Hollow Knight because I’d actually confused it with Dead Cells, which I also thought came out in 2016 alongside HLD. Turns out Hollow Knight and Dead Cells came out at the same…
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Death is a Whale 