Xbox One Reviews

Super Lucky’s Tale caught me by surprise at E3 this year, I was thinking the same thing as everyone else when I saw that tail on the screen; "CONKER!” But no, we were being introduced...

Now I’m often very skeptical when it comes to sequels but even more so when it comes to Monolith sequels. These guys are extremely talented designers and passionate gamers. They have created some of the...

The Evil Within was what you could consider a rough diamond. Meaning that through it's glaring problems, there was a sustainable and engaging game that offered a refreshing experience from old concepts. I remember 2014...

Hey, listen! Did you like Cuphead? Well prepare for Cuphead just with ultraviolence, pretty cyberpunk imagery and plenty of shrugging (it’s in the game). Ruiner is the latest action spectacle from Poland, the same country...

Now I'm going to be honest with you, the last "sim" type game that I played and enjoyed was on my Super Nintendo: a little ditty called Sim City. I loved that game, especially when...

Rarely will you ever play a game so charming, so human, so concise that you're moved by mere paragraphs. Jettomero: Hero of the Universe is a poem straight from the collection of Lord Byron. And despite...

I have been a huge gamer for a large amount of my 38 years on this planet, and as I pass through generation and generation of consoles I have been finding myself more and more...

...Aaaahhh... ...Sorry! I was just thinking of back in 2015. Back when it seemed Telltale had locked down the episodic choose-your-own-adventure genre by riffing off established IPs to tell new tales within the universe. Then...

I personally became a huge fan of Obsidian Entertainment when they brought me the sequel to one of my top games of all time, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I loved being able...

SwapQuest enters console gaming (from its mobile beginnings) and targets exactly who it is for. Swapquest is a tile-swapping puzzle RPG: it's something like an 8-bit Final Fantasy meets a sliding piece puzzle. And it’s every...

I have been privy to many visual or interactive novels in my time and I have to say The Pillars of the Earth is one of the most well done of the genre that I...

I am a huge fan of the game Mirror's Edge; I loved the first-person parkour of the title and was sorely disappointed in the prequel Catalyst. One can only play the first game so many times...

I’ve got a lot of digital blood on my hands. I’ve run down crowds of Liberty City pedestrians, tea-bagged noob corpses and squashed the life out of thousands of hapless, unarmed goombas. In most games,...

As a guy whose life is deeply entrenched in music, I expected AereA to be the perfect melding of my two favorite worlds: RPGs and music. After hours and hours of what feels like wasted...

A few people could describe my approach to Telltale via the reviews of episodes as harsh to the point of taking them to the gallows for their crimes. It isn't as though I didn't have...

We gamers are an emotional bunch, aren’t we? I have found myself tearing up at some of gaming’s most famous polygons dealing with loss and endearing situations. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons had me...

The more I ponder about Telltale's episodes of late, the more I wonder how appropriate it is to measure it how I'd examine, say, a sequel to Life is Strange (which got announced, and I'm...

Arkane studios have great affection for many gaming icons. Their smash hit Dishonored paid tribute to the Thief series and now their attention has turned onto re-imagining a cult classic, with influence from the highly...

Koei Tecmo is a developer that loves to keeps its franchises rolling. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms franchise began in 1985 on several systems, it is loosely based on several novels, Romance of the Three...

In 1989, Westone Bit Entertainment released Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap to the Master System. I never owned a Master System. In fact, when this game was originally released, I wasn’t even alive yet. That...

Well, here we are. The final DLC for the final Dark Souls game, and honestly, they couldn't have gone out any better. Despite it being a DLC, Dark Souls 3: the Ringed City feels more...

I confess I was pretty damn impressed with The Walking Dead: A New Frontier episodes 1 and 2. I had previously written Telltale off as obnoxiously safe until I took a gander at Ties That...

At its core, Crawl is an 8-bit gem--whose music is just as impressive as the art-- in a sea of games striving to capture the feel of the beloved experiences of our past. What Crawl gets right...

Relationships between family, friends, and everyone around us can be difficult to manage with life happening so fast and constantly changing. Things get messy. Things get complicated. Situations don't always go the way that we...

Has-Been Heroes combined action, strategy, and turn-based elements with the fresh but at times unforgiving nature of the roguelike genre. You'll control three characters at a time that will utilize three different combat lanes to...

Ah, fantasy, the juice that just keeps dripping from the taps. Especially the medieval classical fantasy. The ones of wizards, dwarves, and elves. So sweet is the nectar that people are making their own cocktails....