Category: Review
Review: Akiba’s Beat
To the City Streets The fantasy genre is a favorite of many RPGs, both Japanese and Western. Fantastical realms full of odd creatures, wild and intriguing environments to... Read More
Review: Yooka-Laylee
A Blast to the Past Back in the late 90s, the N64 and PlayStation brought unprecedented processing power to the console market, and with it a leap into... Read More
Review: The Caligula Effect
On the Way Out The PlayStation Vita – the little system that could…but never really did. The Vita was a system that I was quite excited for on... Read More
Review: Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
Through the Fourth Wall Virtual reality (should it ever catch on in the mainstream) promises to bring new life and methods to the way we play video games.... Read More
Review: Aaero
A Bit of Panache When you get down to basics, the rhythm game genre is a very simple one. Most of the time, you’re doing nothing more than... Read More
Review: Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
Bro’s Day Out I hate to beat a dead horse here, but it’s pretty obvious how saturated the FPS market was in 2011. That same saturation hasn’t changed... Read More
Review: Toukiden 2
Kill ’em All Video games tend to revolve around the slaughter of monsters or various enemies much of the time. For one reason or another, gamers have come... Read More
Review: Project Lux
Making the Jump It is always a risk for a franchise or genre to make the jump to a new technology. Look no further than the 2D/3D shift... Read More
Review: Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs
Trying Something New When jumping between different games within the same genre, most gamers have come to expect similar mechanics to be used between them. Most popular FPS... Read More
Review: Senran Kagura: Estival Versus [PC]
[Note: Due to the fanservice-heavy nature of this game, some of the images in this article may be considered NSFW.] For the Many or the Few Nearly every... Read More
Review: ChronoClock
Let’s Get Cute Like pretty much every genre of every medium, the gaming genre of the visual novel has a number of subgenres to help further classify the... Read More
Review: NieR: Automata
Foreword You should know that I took my time with this review, and not just because it’s my first “real” review for Gamer Escape, or because we’re comfortably... Read More
Review: Stage Presence
Future Goggles We are just about a year into the so-called VR revolution. Both the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift have been on the market for nearly... Read More
Review: Berserk and the Band of the Hawk
Forcing a Fit When it comes to licensing a property to create a video game, there’s one important question the game developer should ask themselves: “Would this property... Read More
Review: Atelier Shallie Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea
Mixing Things Up Gamers of a certain age place console RPGs in a certain bubble. In early generations, console games were the way to go, due mostly due... Read More
Review: Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers
Spicing Up the Past Human history is full of fascinating subjects and epic stories. Wars that tear countries asunder, struggles of entire nations of people, the rise and... Read More
Review: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Ever since the game’s official reveal at last year’s E3, I’ve been incredibly unsure of how Resident Evil 7: Biohazard would stack up to the other games in... Read More
Review: Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star
Never the First Thanks to companies like Atlus and XSeed, the west has been seeing a major increase in localizations of somewhat niche Japanese games and franchises. Over... Read More
