I stopped playing games on my mobile phone a number of years ago now. A mixture of me having to drive to my day job…
Tag: Review
As someone who has been critiquing games in my own little corner of the internet for nearly a decade at this point it’s incredibly crass…
So it’s time for my bi-annual talking about Senran Kagura, I refuse to capitalise the entire name. At some point when I know a new…
Like a lot of people in this bubble of hobbyism for gaming, I also play a lot of board games. Often when playing games I…
No one truly dislikes the entirety of any one genre of anything, with people that say they don’t like Superhero films, perhaps they’ve only seen…
I’ve spoken a number of times about my love of Hotline Miami, the style, the world, the incomprehensible story and the almost puzzle like genre…
Real life Ruaidhri is very different to how I conduct myself in games. I’m not talking about the obvious hyper-violent characters or anything to that…
There’s a few blind spots in the gaming history, certain genres that I never really tried and kind of missed the boat on. Some I’ve…
Single screen local multiplayer games had something of a resurgence over the past 5 years, games like Gang Beasts, Overcooked, Nidhogg and Ultimate Chicken Horse…
At this stage it’s quite apparent that the only times I ever use the NSFW in the title is when I’m talking about the latest…
There’s a weird disconnect when I watch kids adventure films like Goonies or series like Stranger Things. If I was in either of those situations…
It’s wonderfully easy to see the three cultural touch points that inspired Hong Kong Massacre; Hotline Miami, Max Payne and the Hong Kong action films…
It’s probably worth confessing at this point that I have never played XCOM, or rather the modern XCOM, I did dabble with the series back…
Some of my earliest gaming memories include watching my dad play Elite on the BBC Micro. Something about that wire-frame game always stuck with me;…
I’ll start as I always do with a review of something Early Access on Steam, I realise a review of a game that itself acknowledges…
As a rule I try not to say game X is like game Y in my reviews, it always seems reductive and I often have…
I’m not going to lie, my PSVR went from being one of my more used gaming items to being a bit of a dust collector…
It’s often easy to look at the term ‘spiritual successor’ as something that’s just thrown around to avoid legal trouble with a game’s IP holder.…
With Cyberpunk 2077 creeping it’s way into the subconscious of the gaming community, thanks to a break in the dam that was their marketing strategy,…