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Masquerada is about as enjoyable as a dictionary
Delivered in the middle of Big Game season, Masquerada looks at first like a welcome relief from war, VR, and Watch Dogs 2’s emoji mask. The masks in its world are a different kind of grotesque. They separate the haves and the have-nots in a rigidly stratified sorta-Venetian society, granting elemental powers to elites who dress like every day is carnival. The conceit feels fresh, and the city… → Read More
Inside the idiot-party bubble of Lucio
“Look at this team! We’re gonna do great,” Lúcio says, before his team gets crushed at the first point for five minutes straight. “This payload is bumpin’!” Lúcio says, before he’s yanked off the payload and mauled by a giant wearing a gas mask. “This is gonna make you feel better,” Lúcio says, adjusting his stereo as his team is annihilated by rockets and bombs. Lúcio, Overwatch’s skating DJ,… → Read More
Necropolis couldn’t entertain the dead
How’d dungeons get so big, anyway? Before fantasy games, dungeons were modest medieval cells or imprisonment-themed sex rooms. But in today’s post-D&D RPGs the dungeon might as well be the cornerstone of the universe. Any tough mazey place becomes a dungeon: labyrinths, catacombs, mines, caves, mansions, factories, and even spaceships are called dungeons if there’s someone with three health bars… → Read More
The immortal weirdness of Shadow Hearts
This article is part of PS2 Week, a full week celebrating the 2000 PlayStation 2 console. To see other articles, go here. This article contains spoilers for Shadow Hearts, Shadow Hearts: Covenant,… → Read More
Dark Souls III: Super Dark Souls World
Spoilers for a few Dark Souls III bosses below. /// The hardest Souls game, people say, is the one you played first. That’s where you learned the language, starting with the common nouns: the grunt… → Read More
Advice from Torment: Tides of Numenera
Torment: Tides of Numenera is, in its own words, “chewy and full of strangeness.” The game’s beta sets players down in the city of Sagus Cliffs, where weird humans and alien “visitants” live in squ… → Read More
Fallout 4: Return to Junktown
For more in-depth game writing, back our Kickstarter! Here comes the trashman! He’s strutting down the highway in his scrap metal suit, tin cans rattling up and down its legs, soda bottles and glue… → Read More
The Witcher 3 is the real deal
The generosity of The Witcher 3. → Read More
Final Fantasy VIII and awkwardness
Revisiting the cringiest Final Fantasy. → Read More
Speaking to inanimate objects in Divinity: Original Sin
An erroneous comedy. → Read More
Dark Souls 2: A review in weapons
Speak, inventory. → Read More