Having writing be my current source of income has come with the adverse effect of making me enjoy playing games on keyboard and mouse less. While you can play Rusted Moss with a controller, it recommends playing with keyboard and mouse, and I think it's worthwhile to do so. The combination of your movement tools, alongside a very strong suite of engaging boss fights make Rusted Moss one of the better indie metroidvanias on a gameplay level. Unfortunately, when it comes to atmosphere, progression, and exploration I feel it falls a little flat. I feel like this game could've used one more major upgrade to your toolkit, maybe an alternative grenade or something.

Considering the fact that I played this in a single setting, Citizen Sleeper is an incredibly strong narrative game that I definitely recommend. There are some strange pieces to the writing, such as how it seems that the game is allergic to using any contractions, but the stories that you go through and the prose both enraptured me. I was a little disappointed on the gameplay side however. I would say that the majority of my playthrough was spent without any threat from the different resources. I always had enough money, medicine, or time. A sequel was just announced, and I'm highly anticipating it. I think if both the writing and the gameplay are tightened up and expanded, this could be something really special.

Oh hell yeah!
The movement? Incredible.
The level design? Sublime.
The Combat?

I'm gonna keep coming back to this one every once in a while for a speedrun. Good times all round.

A good game shackled by the reputation of being a masterpiece, or being the profane icon of the medium's worst generation. While the story is simple, I appreciate it most when it focuses on sympathetic characters and their growing relationships. The ending especially works off this; turning what should be an unambiguous turn to evil into something I honestly understood the reasoning for. The gameplay is much the same way, a simple third-person shooter that shines when utilizing its unique mechanics. I only wish I was pushed to scavenge and craft during combat more, because it's really engaging in a firefight.

Also, Resident Evil 4 is just as "cinematic" as this game but people aren't ready for that conversation

I had a feeling that I would enjoy this, and it turns out that I was right! Tunic is a wonderful experience, and its quality seeps into every fiber of the game.

The combat has seen a good deal of criticism, and I honestly didn't really have any issues with it. I really enjoyed how the enemies and bosses pushed me to use all the items that I had access to, and practicing good spacing so that I didn't waste any stamina on blocks and dodges was also fun.

The manual is absolutely the star of the show. It takes a really good adventure game and turns it into something really special. The entire game feels extremely well considered, one discovery I made in the late game made me entirely reconsider the structure of the game, and how linear it actually was.

I'm going to be thinking about this one for a long time.

Sifu definitely has it's issues, but it's a game that I ultimately had a great time with. You can read about most of the common issues in any other review of the game, the progression is underwhelming, the camera has issues, etcetera.

However, one thing that I wanted to highlight that really stood out to me was the games presentation. Sifu is visually gorgeous. I love how the game plays with color, each stage having a very distinct color scheme that it play around with. The stages also have wonderful set design. I think that the museum stage is absolutely the standout.

Just a great time overall.

No More Heroes III is kept on a razor's edge between absurdism and mundanity. There are frequent, extreme tonal shifts and style changes. However, most of the game is spent fighting the same batch of enemies in the same batch of arenas.

Load a fight.
Kill the enemies.
Drive to another fight.
Find a generic collectable along the way for a dopamine hit.
Load a fight.
Kill the enemies.
Enter the boss fight.
Watch a cutscene about the conventions of role playing games.
Serialized TV outro.
Netflix.
Miike.
No More Heroes III.
Is it all worth it?