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Monster Hunter Wilds Review

Monster Hunter Wilds Review: Streamlined to Death

For an old-time fan like me, Monster Hunter Wilds is incredibly frustrating because it’s simultaneously one of the best and worst games of the series. On one hand, the monster designs are excellent, the combat is more fluid than ever, the environments are beautiful, and the map feels like a living, breathing ecosystem.

On the other hand, half of those things are held back by extreme contradictions to the game’s design that clearly exist due to an absurd level of streamlining. I hate writing this review because I am absolutely going to be screaming into the void. I’m just an old man yelling at clouds, but I gotta yell just to let the screams out.

Avowed Review

Avowed Review

Avowed is an interesting beast because it’s a game I kind of enjoyed, but I was constantly nagged by how much better it felt like it should have been. That’s a step up from The Outer Worlds, which I thought was a badly designed experience from the ground up, but it’s still disappointing in its own way.

There is a kinship between the two titles, though. Just like in The Outer Worlds, entire mechanics exist in a play pretend kind of way. You can point and say that there is a purple squirrel doing the Macarena in the corner of the room, but it’s not actually there. That works for a child’s imagination, but less so for video games that you actually interact with.

The Genius Design of Oxygen Not Included - A Review

The Genius Design of Oxygen Not Included – A Review

Oxygen Not Included is a survival-focused colony sim where you have to try and help a bunch of hapless fools called dupes (short for duplicates) survive in a pretty unforgiving environment inside different planetoids.

The biggest thing that separates Oxygen Not Included from other games of the genre is its focus on real-world science and physics, or what I assume is a pretty close video game equivalent because what the heck do I know about any of that?

Worms The Board Game Review

Worms: The Board Game Review

Since I cover and review both video games and board games, I tend to take a special interest in board game adaptions of video games. However, I have had pretty poor luck with them, they end up being poor adaptions, have broken mechanics, or end up just being pretty bad games.

Worms, however, seems like it should be a homerun hit, the turn-based nature of the video game is the perfect canvas to transform into a board game.