Author: Eliot Lefebvre
Review: Exit the Gungeon
Some game concepts do not weather a format shift very well. Enter the Gungeon was something of a darling with reviewers when it arrived; it was a top-down... Read More
Review: Langrisser I & II
Finding old JRPGs that never got released stateside is frequently a wild experience in a lot of ways, not the least of which being that you’ve almost certainly... Read More
Review: Fire Emblem: Three Houses – Cindered Shadows
In one sense, Fire Emblem: Three Houses – Cindered Shadows is really just the last installment of four bits of DLC doled out over a year or so... Read More
Review: Daemon X Machina
Every so often, you find a game that seems so perfectly targeted to your particular flavors of fascination and enjoyment that it seems like it should, nay, must... Read More
Review: Kunai
We honestly seem to be in the middle of something like a Metroidvania renaissance; while there were a few years wherein the genre was fairly quiet, these days... Read More
Review: Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk DX
The overall Atelier franchise is another one of those long-running series that’s always felt a bit difficult to approach for me. It’s very clear at a glance that... Read More
Review: Gensou Skydrift
Gensou Skydrift happily advertises itself on its Steam page with a clear statement: “A Touhou Project racing game is here!” And that is entirely true. This is a... Read More
Preview: Ciel Fledge
One of my favorite games of all time is still Princess Maker 2. I was introduced to it almost by accident during my freshman year of college, when... Read More
Review: EarthNight
I have no idea what about this game prompted this title. While a lot of the game takes place in space, where it is dark like night, there’s... Read More
Preview: The Riftbreaker
The Riftbreaker is a big, sprawling, ambitious, kind of hopeless mess of a game. I sort of love it. Games can have ambition on a lot of levels,... Read More
Preview: Alder’s Blood
It’s really hard to be sure just how much Bloodborne and Darkest Dungeon influenced the collective zeitgeist of gaming. The two games weren’t quite contemporaries, but they both... Read More
Review: Dusk Diver
At first glance, Dusk Diver looks like a pretty decent anime beat-em-up featuring a female protagonist. This is incorrect. It is a beat-em-up, but it actually comes from... Read More
Preview: Spin Rhythm XD
The thing about rhythm games is that from one perspective, they’re really simple to make; they just need a coherent sound and a solid control scheme. What makes... Read More
Review: BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre
Video games have a long history with excess. We’re not talking about games like Grand Theft Auto or Duke Nukem here; we’re talking about titles like Loaded and... Read More