In this episode, Carlos & Brad cover: StoryBlocks: The King Terra Memoria Yet Another Fantasy Title Stacklands FF16 20 Minutes Till Dawn Broken Roads Fallout 4 …And more! You can also hear the show on iTunes and Spotify! Please send feedback and mailbag questions to SoVideogamesPODCAST (at) gmail (dot) com, or post them in the comments section below. Thanks ..read more

Grand Blue Sky Of Possibilities HIGH Combat, quests and core gameplay. LOW Enemy variety, difficulty, and lack of story co-op. WTF Why can’t I play the campaign with my friends in a co-op focused game? I’ve been anticipating Granblue Fantasy: Relink (Relink for short) since I first got my hands on it for a preview last year. It’s the new realtime Action RPG game by Cygames and it feels like a mix of Final Fantasy XIV and Monster Hunter — yet as much as I want it to, in its current state it doesn’t surpass either. The director, Tetsuya Fukuhara, has worked on seve ..read more

Sail The Boring Seas HIGH This final fight is very different than the one in 1993. LOW Wait, THAT’s the warehouse safe combination? Seriously? WTF Pretty sure that’s Jeremy talking to the game’s developers right there. It’s impossible to overstate Alone in the Dark‘s influence on Survival Horror — it invented that specific mixture of spooky adventure and punishing combat before Resident Evil made the genre’s name famous just a few years later. In fact, the two series are so inextricably linked that as I watched the opening cutscene’s camera fly over a gorgeous rendering of Louisiana swampland ..read more

In this episode, Carlos is away on assignment so Brad’s holding it down on his own. He changes it up a bit this week by answering a TON of listener questions before getting to the usual weekly games coverage, including: Stellar Blade Sandland 20 Minutes Till Dawn OTXO A Void Hope Gord …And more! You can also hear the show on iTunes and Spotify! Please send feedback and mailbag questions to SoVideogamesPODCAST (at) gmail (dot) com, or post them in the comments section below. Thanks ..read more

CHOP TILL YOU DROP HIGH Hitting a huge group of goblins with the wand for the first time. LOW The final third feels like a letdown. WTF The musical mid-game box battle. With a return to their mid-’90s roots, first-person shooters have had something of a renaissance in recent years. These retro-styled titles are a welcome shot of adrenaline for a genre that has long become tired and stale. Chop Goblins is the distillation of this genre down to its most potent elements. With an average playthrough lasting only 30 minutes, there is no room for Chop Goblins to slow down. Upon starting a new game ..read more

After more than two years of development, a demo for the epic new Dark Souls III mod known as Dark Souls: Archthrones has finally been released, causing many Souls fans on PC to rejoice. The development team is an all-star cast of Souls devotees who had the skills, passion and time needed to essentially make their own entry in the series. They made many modifications including improved graphics, different combat mechanics and more options for players to make adjustments to the UI – but the most exciting part about the mod is the new content. There are five new areas, eighteen new bosses, full ..read more

Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z. The subject of this installment: the pinball tables available in the recent release Pinball M, developed and published by Zen Studios. I already reviewed Pinball M as an entire package and highly recommend it. Since then, I have logged nearly ..read more

In this episode, Carlos & Brad cover: Alone in the Dark – Prologue: Grace Stellar Blade (demo) Empty Shell Jak & Daxter Dungeon Drafters Dragons Dogma 2 WH40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters …And more! You can also hear the show on iTunes and Spotify! Please send feedback and mailbag questions to SoVideogamesPODCAST (at) gmail (dot) com, or post them in the comments section below. Thanks ..read more

Two Ears, A Heart, And A Beak For Eating Honey HIGH Holy Hell do I love the potential of the Gold Master Series LOW …Sure feels like we should have a Jeff Minter Story Part II. WTF The Konix Multi-System. I don’t think there’s a franchise that I desperately wish to be successful more than Digital Eclipse’s Gold Master Series. The videogame industry can be criticized for many, many, many things, but one of its most glaring faults is the complete indifference to its own history and preservation. I am legitimately over the moon that a port-based developer as dependable as Digital Eclipse has tea ..read more

Making Friends HIGH Creepy (but beautiful) aesthetic. LOW The physics puzzles. WTF If everyone is dead, why do I need organs for my new friend? TRANSCRIPT: Hi everyone! Eugene Sax here with another review from GameCritics.com. Loneliness can do a lot to a person. Those who are most affected can feel as though everything is a chore, and if it progresses, it can spiral into depression. However, it can also spur someone to do something incredible, that sense willing them forward. In this case, Birth does seem to hint at the latter while guiding the player through relaxing puzzles and soothing m ..read more