Role playing games' puzzle paradox

Modern Japanese RPGs have moved to handheld consoles for a simple reason: the genre, as created, requires both major time commitment and a dedication to the relatively mindless. While big budget JRPG’s have become cinematic experiences, games like Etrian Odyssey

Vampires Just Want To Have Fun: The Adventures Of Shuggy

Some games try too hard. In an effort to please the widest audience and provide the roundest experience, developers cram copious amounts of (often underdeveloped) mechanics into a single project, making for a bloated, unfocused game. It is with this

Fez's shifting genres

There’s a quote from Roger Ebert’s review of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans which goes: “It’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it.” It sums up perfectly how I feel about the alarmingly

Sky Island Review

Warning: This review contains detailed and unrestricted spoilers. Sky Island is a puzzle platformer starring a vaguely humanoid star who collects stars. If your mind isn’t completely blown yet, let me add that you can collect coins for points, Goomba-stomp

Some Good News: Desktop Dungeons

We’ve had a day full of mediocre E3 news, announcements of consoles and not of any particularly thrilling games, so you need some good news. Something to take the pain away. Something mindless, but particularly entertaining. Well, here’s the demo

Catherine has gameplay!

The internet is a funny place. Andriasang has reported that there is in fact gameplay in Catherine, and everyone there seems to be pretty okay about it. The rest of the internet, though, seems to be taking this as some