Reviews

Reviews

Review: Shadowrun Hong Kong

Shadowrun Hong Kong is the third of the flawed but enjoyable trilogy of Shadowrun games by Haredbrained Schemes. Hong Kong is not very different from its predecessors, Dead Man's Switch and Dragonfall. If you liked the previous entries on...

Review: The Park

I've had a long standing love-hate relationship with The Secret World. It was an MMO that tried to innovate and bring new ideas to the RPG arena, and at the same time paradoxically stumbled with attempts to make the game appeal to the...

Review: Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

Recently in Enemy Slime we've begun discussing the impact of having an annual series, and how such games such as Pro Evolution Soccer or Call of Duty end up feeling hollow, dry, and occasionally, even lazy and broken due to their raw...

Review: SOMA

Waking up in the world of Frictional's SOMA I found myself surrounded by the dirtiest bachelor's pad I had ever seen. I knew this guy, Simon Jarrett, had been through some shit. Car crash. Brain injury. But I found the state of his living...

Review: Rebel Galaxy

I first reported on Rebel Galaxy back in May, when studio Double Damage previewed their highly ambitious open world space sim. I say ambitious because the title is a huge undertaking by two-man studio team Travis Baldree and Erich...

Review: Mushroom 11

The indie game developer toolbox isn't always huge. Oftentimes we see genres and patterns appear in these titles, not because they're exceptionally fun but instead because they're easier to make. "Roguelike", "platformer", and...

Review: The Beginner’s Guide

WARNING: I'd rather not spoil The Beginner's Guide in this review, but I feel like there is no way to describe it without giving away at least some of the experience. For those concerned, please read at your own risk. To summarize I would...

Review: Super Mario Maker

If you somehow managed to hunt down my notebooks from the early years of elementary school you would have found many things scrolled in their margins. Among the scribbles sat elaborate and meticulously designed "levels". A series of...

Review: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5

I was initially excited for Tony Hawk's pro Skater 5. Robomodo was making a ton of big but completely achievable promises. Then we got the first videos, then as we got closer to the game's release date and we got a look at the graphics,...

Review: Disgaea 5: Alliance Of Vengeance

When Nippon Ichi first appeared on the scene with Pucelle Tactics, Disgaea and Phantom Brave they seemed like the great hype. They introduced a new type of Japanese strategy RPG that escaped the somber medieval settings and traded it out...