When I first saw the trailer for Stellar Blade, I was intrigued, mostly in spite of myself. Another game featuring an overly sexualized female protagonist catering to a male audience—do we really need yet another one of those? Well, months later, the demo rolled out, and I played it. To my surprise, I immediately loved the Souls-like gameplay (something I usually despise), the world-building, and was incredibly interested in […]
As you’ve probably guessed from my other posts, I’m a pretty big fan of the Horizon series, so getting the latest DLC for Horizon Forbidden West, called Burning Shores, was a need, not a want. When the Burning Shores DLC was first announced, I was pretty excited to return to the world of Horizon Forbidden West, but I didn’t really know what to expect. For $20, I wasn’t expecting […]
Back when the teaser trailer for the game Stray was first released, I thought “oh, this looks cute, but I don’t see any reason why I’d need to play it.” Oh, how utterly wrong I was. Flash forward to release date and my Twitter feed is absolutely jam packed with people playing Stray and rhapsodizing over the “Press O to meow” features, posting hilarious videos of their pets watching them play Stray, and […]
Tales of Arise is the long-awaited seventeenth entry in the Tales of series. The game follows main characters Alphen, a Dahnan, and Shionne, a Renan on their journey to end the centuries long oppression and slavery of Danhans at the hands of Renan. Along the way, they both grow closer, and add other party members from all different backgrounds to aid on their quest. Tales of Arise offers an interesting, […]
I really adore this game. I never expected to like it almost as much as Tomb Raider 2013, but I truly did. It certainly is much better than its predecessor, Rise of the Tomb Raider, in which the strongest part of the game was the DLC, Croft Manor. Lara Croft is more compelling than ever in this entry—facing with her strongest enemy yet—herself. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, […]