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
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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 […]
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.
The year in Squareblind: 2019 – part 1
What tenuous lessons were there to take from Tetris, Dark Souls and waggle-y arcade joy sticks in the final year of s sometimes bewildering decade? Click and find out… obvs
Sondheim, Pokemon Shield and the timeless need to get lost in the woods
The first entirely new Pokemon games have arrived on Nintendo Switch with an attempt to offer the series’ own own stylised, approximated take on a lush, steampunk United Kingdom, with its forests, industrial towns and penchant for both good and questionable curry. Moving the games to what is ostensibly a home console has brought with it several changes – both bigger and smaller in scope.
