September 22, 2018 · Game Reviews, Retro
As the end credits rolled I realised I wasn’t quite sure what a ‘Growlanser’ was or why the subtitle ‘The Sense of Justice’ was chosen. I looked up the game on Wikipedia – which I hadn’t done before this point – and also saw that there were dating sim elements in the game’s final section that I’d completely missed out on because my ‘friendship’ levels with the female characters wasn’t high enough. The list of unsolved mysteries was getting longer...
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January 30, 2018 · Retro
I must admit that at some point during the last couple of years the Nintendo Wii got boxed up and put away in the cupboard. Because of this the first part of this week’s adventure was a search for the Nintendo Wii in which I opened up a lot of old boxes and discovered that I own more Sega Megadrives than I ever remember buying. My mission: to discover how the graphics on the Wii’s Virtual Console compare against the real thing.
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December 14, 2017 · Game Dev
Jethro and friends return for a hypnotic voyage across the Lion Quest universe in LQVE: Lion Quest Versus Expanded – now available on Steam . Push the boundaries of time and space in this meditative platformer and experimental party game for 1–4 players.
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November 23, 2017 · Game Reviews
It’s taken me a lot longer than it should have to get around to this review. The fact that I'm still playing NieR Automata is certainly a positive, and now it's been a few months I can safely say it’s one of the most intriguing and all-round excellent games to come out in a really long time.
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November 13, 2017 · Game Dev
Jethro and friends will be returning for another action-packed adventure. LQVE: Lion Quest Versus Expanded is coming soon to Steam and will launch with support for Windows, Mac and Linux/Steam OS.
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July 3, 2017 · Game Reviews
Wipeout: Omega Collection is the remaster of a remaster, and much of the content goes all the way back to the good ol’ days of the PSP. There’s tracks here I’ve now played through in four different iterations of the franchise, but the fact that there’s now a Wipeout game on PlayStation 4 is certainly nothing to complain about – especially considering that Studio Liverpool closed back in 2012. Although familiar, Wipeout: Omega Collection delivers a further level of refinement to an already masterful series, and that's pretty great.
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May 24, 2017 · Articles
It's been quite the wait, but this week Twin Peaks has returned after a twenty six year break between its second and third season. In that time, Mark Frost and David Lynch's cult classic has been hugely influential, and its ambitious storytelling, eerie atmosphere and memorable characters have had a notable influence on many videogames. Today I've picked out my top five games that embody everything great about Twin Peaks.
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March 4, 2017 · Articles
I realised yesterday that I've been blindly purchasing Nintendo consoles on launch day for sixteen years now. More specifically this has been happening since the Nintendo GameCube came out back in May 2002. However the journey hasn't always been smooth; I was flat-out disappointed with the Wii and the Wii U spend most of day one installing a system update. The newest addition is of course the Nintendo Switch, and the good news is that my initial impressions are really very positive. With that in mind I though I'd take a quick break from playing Zelda to write about why that is.
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February 21, 2017 · Game Dev
Another game? So soon? You'd be forgiven for thinking I've gone mad, but I'm here to tell you about a project that goes much further back than Lion Quest . This is the story of a visual novel I've been making on-and-off (mostly off) for the last six years, and M1: A Death in the Desert is finally available for download.
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February 16, 2017 · Anime Reviews
The Persona 3 movies are collectively a real treat for fans, retelling its engaging story in a compelling new format. Split into four parts, Winter of Rebirth covers the final section of the narrative, and ties up the series with a competent adaptation of the game's most fiddly section.
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