Taking care of Wormy: Risk of Rain 2 and the real-time perils of online gaming
An online playthrough of Risk of Rain 2 is really about throwing yourself onto the mercy of friends or strangers, committing yourself to a shared world and sense of time
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics – the ongoing 20 year search to relive Vandal Hearts
Compared to other turn-based strategy games such as Vandal Hearts, Dark Crystal is a much messier and complex game to play through.
Goat Simulator and the limits of digital anarchy
At its best, Goat Simulator’s loose sense of rules exist to be reshaped, or rather headbutted to your whims. It is less a simulation, more a dreamlike experience akin to being an indestructible new-born child let free in a playground
Monster Slayers on Nintendo Switch – aka being a slave to the digital cards
If a player is to be a slave to a digital card deck, there is some comfort in being able to at least try to stack it in your favour.
A one man super Mario Party AKA – being a slave to the digital dice
By Neil Merrett Super Mario Party, released on Nintendo Switch in 2018, developed by NDcube Games can be as meaningful or throwaway an experience as we choose for them to […]
Fuller House vs The Witcher – the world of Netflix videogame adaptations
Toss a coin to your Netflix – the moral ambiguity of the Witcher was not the only video game adaptation attempted by the streaming giant over Christmas, with saccharine sit-com Fuller House offering some useful insight on Rocket League and its role as a communications tool
The year in Squareblind: 2019 – part 2
Deciphering why not falling on your bottom in Death Standing is so satisfying, while also looking at the appeal of diamond gym bras in Ring Fit and the appeal of a shared zombie apocalypse were among Squareblind’s highlights for the second part of 2019.
