There’s no other Godzilla videogame that understands the futility of fighting radioactive beasts better than Godzilla Defense Force. Every run is hopeless; that’s by design. The game exists to suck money and time, but this is a smart, appropriate application of the idle clicker. Tapping the screen sends troops to the shoreline, defending against various… Continue reading Godzilla Defense Force (Android)
Biker culture took form after World War II, but broke open post-Easy Rider, a 1969 film reflecting post-Vietnam’s isolation. Easy Rider used America’s roads as a means of escape from social reality. But imagine if, instead of Easy Rider, social rebellion stemmed from Days Gone. Still an anti-culture influence, but also unhinged, cruel, and without… Continue reading Days Gone (PS4)
Nothing about Axis Football looks, plays, or sounds professional. That’s why it works. The NFL and EA produce a yearly, idealized look at pro football. It’s clean and glossy. Precise and comfortable. That’s the only pro football choice, made under multiple corporate banners. Not Axis Football. This is made by a handful of developers, not… Continue reading Axis Football 18 (PS4)
In a universe of demi-gods, zombies, demons, hell spawns, robot ninjas, and toothy monsters, the US military still puts up a fight. Loaded with assault rifles, they tactically lay out their plan to stop an underworld invasion using battleships and sheer numbers. It’s comical to think bullets still have value; imagine the Biblical rapture, with… Continue reading Mortal Kombat 11 (PS4)
Before the start of chapter three, Dead or Alive 6 already featured a fight in a pterodactyl nest, a brawl on a pirate ship assailed by a kraken, and introduces a demon fighter. That’s before getting to the reanimated robot based on the lineage of Dead or Alive’s main ninja clan. It’s such a bizarre… Continue reading Dead or Alive 6 (PS4)
Ichiro Suzuki, longtime Seattle Mariner and certain Hall of Famer, retired after the Mariner’s Tokyo tour earlier this month. As such, MLB 19 is the first entry in this series without Suzuki on the roster; that’s how long he hung onto his career. It feels weird without him. Suzuki and The Show paired well together.… Continue reading MLB 19: The Show (PS4)
A wealthy and opulent man grows tired of his privilege as Darkest Dungeon opens. Standing in his castle’s bedroom, a nude woman barely covered in his bed and a sizable fireplace crackling, he decides to unleash the spawns of hell to inject excitement into his life. This goes as well as expected. That man, after… Continue reading Darkest Dungeon (Switch)
