by Bella Lara | Apr 4, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
Brooklyn Vice Cop shows in the 80s were pretty nasty, weren’t they? Not necessarily because of the content, mind you – although some of the subject matter could be a bit gnarly. No, they were nasty because of their sardonic, cynical take on humanity. To the writers of...
by Bella Lara | Mar 25, 2017 | 70s, Full Reviews, Reviews
A Lilly Short “The walking simulator” – the most dreaded of pejoratives in the sphere of indie games. It’s often used to disparage low-key narrative experiences like Dear Esther and Gone Home, and to delegitimize anything that doesn’t prescribe to pre-established...
by Bella Lara | Jan 22, 2017 | Reviews, Steam Pile
Plague is Putting It Lightly Diablo II was a pretty good game. A classic, I’d say. But it’s not the early 2000’s anymore, and aping a game almost two decades old isn’t the best foot to put forward. It’s especially not great when your game can’t even emulate everything...
by Bella Lara | Jan 20, 2017 | 70s, Full Reviews, Reviews
Watch This, You’re Gonna Love My Nuts It’s become an increasingly common practice for mobile games to get ported over to Steam. Hell, even Square Enix is doing it with their Go games and Deus Ex: The Fall. Thing is, these ports are very rarely good – almost as...
by Bella Lara | Jan 15, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
What’s Cooler Than Being Cool? Cold Vengeance is a game that knows exactly what it wants to be and has no pretenses of trying to win favors outside of its intended demographic. If you’re a child of the ’90s and have a great deal of nostalgia for N64 games,...
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