Life is Strange is all about capturing a specific time, place, and feeling, and bottling it into a decision. The magic of it all is how real it all feels — the people you meet, who trust you, who betray you, who love you. The ramifications of your decisions, no…

I think all of us have, at some point, had an idea for a game concept and searched high and low only to find it had not yet been done. Yes, I know — go make it yourself. I have actually started working on my first ever video game with…

I finished this game in just under 18 hours over 4 days, and I’m still not sure why. I have had what could be called a very strange week with The Letter. After finishing the excellent AI: The Somnium Files, I was searching around for another visual novel with English…

AI: The Somnium Files was created by Kotaro Uchikoshi, the writer and director of the Zero Escape Trilogy. If you haven’t played those games, stop reading this and go play them. Quit your job if you have to. Do it .I …

I come to you, hat in hand, with my Gamer Card on the line — I do not like Final Fantasy, and Final Fantasy VII Remake: Intergrade (hereafter FF VII R) is only the second game in the franchise I’ve played more than an hour of. With a few exceptions…

Since I picked it up (and couldn’t put it down) in 2017, NieR: Automata has remained one of my favorite games of all time. It’s one of those that has stuck with me in a way that I don’t think I’ll ever grow out of, nor do I think I…

At the time of Final Fantasy XV’s release in 2017, it was one of my great gaming shames to have never played a Final Fantasy game. Turn-based RPGs and MMOs had never been my thing, but seeing that XV was a live combat, open world, single player experience — well…

Although it wasn’t until recently that Ghost of Tsushima became a “day one” title for me, I’ve had my eye on it for what feels like four years now. Ah, okay. Looks like it actually was four years. Here’s the headline — worth it. Ghost of Tsushima puts the player…

Before beginning The Last of Us Part II, I jotted down some of my quick thoughts on worries and hopes for what the game would present to me. The meta-narrative surrounding The Last of Us Part II has dominated the internet for months since the story leaked, and I must…