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)
Winding through Devil May Cry 5 is a literal root of all evil. Those roots feed a mangled tree that edges Earth’s atmosphere and enters the now corrupted heavens. This, as with its predecessors, is not a subtle videogame. In atmosphere, a family will duel and brawl after dispatching a litany of demons, a scenario… Continue reading Devil May Cry 5 (Xbox One)
Gunfights, fistfights, bar fights. Horses and stables. Bandits, jails, and sheriffs. The flair and mystique of the west. Or, the bastardization of reality. West of Loathing uses it all, but unlike the silent cinema it takes after, there’s no allusion to the romanticized west. Where once the written dialog of say, 1923’s The Covered Wagon… Continue reading West of Loathing (Switch)
The first kill comes quick in Far Cry: New Dawn. As things go in numerous contemporary videogames, it’s a crouch, wait, pounce sequence. Doing so brings up an animation in which the victim is spun around, punched in the stomach, put in a headlock, then stabbed in the eye by scissors. Far Cry: New Dawn… Continue reading Far Cry: New Dawn (PS4)
A radio signal fights through airwave static, calling out for protagonist Artyom. He won’t answer. Artyom doesn’t speak. He grunts and screams, but never engages in conversations. It’s bizarre why anyone asks him to respond over comms. Metro Exodus needs him to speak. The number of awkwardly silent, emotional moments bomb without a reasonable response.… Continue reading Metro Exodus (PS4)
