Watchdogs Legion is based around the battle for the soul of near future London. But too often its politics are decided in binary ways that prove unsatisfying when compared to the more open ended, well designed methods of waging guerrilla warfare in the capital
What is a fair price to play for a couple of hours of mindless or not-so-mindless video game escapism? For the price of less than a pound during one recent sale, Skull Rogue potentially offers hours of escalating dungeon battles and literal bang for a literal buck.
The latest in a series of remastered classic videogames looking to build on the appeal of ‘Battle Royale’ titles such as Fortnite and PUBG has led to the emergence of the MMOMCVG (massively multiplayer online maze chase ghost game).
When considering the success that Nintendo has had with the Legend of Zelda series dating back to the 1980s, it is not surprising that developers will have been influenced by the action adventure classic.
However, it is testament to the flexibility of the series that developers are continuing to this day to try and take bold, and not so bold approaches to recreate the earliest Zelda games with some interesting tweaks to gameplay, story and tone.
Amidst a range of recent titles seeking to update the classic videogame brawler, Squareblind.co.uk looks at how the simple mechanics of kicks, punches, parries and special moves that are essential to the genre are being subverted to incorporate more nuanced narrative themes and concepts such as unreliable narrators.
There can be real joy in plugging in some beloved old controller or joystick into a modern platformer. But trying to give a modern game with its multiple input and control options a retro, tactile feel is not always easy when you have just six buttons to do so.
JJ Robinson braves the zombified cornfields of digital small-town Americana. Along the way, he finds the experience of going through an 8 year-old game – and especially its sequel – may tell a player way more than is comfortable about who we are in times of strife and trouble, as well as what matters most when the chips are down… Yeehaarrrrgh.
Our final retrospective of gaming in 2020 looked at the concept of anti-football games, online competitive Super Mario and what makes a good videogame forward roll.
Squareblind.co.uk looks at the game that have defined its 2020 with co-op titles such as Risk of Rain 2 sitting alongside more cutthroat distractions such as Monopoly and Mario Party.
For better or worse, we all have to do the best we can in life to get by with what we’re given. Both Dead Cells and Slay the Spire perfectly encapsulate this school of thought with very different styles of gameplay.
