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What Makes a Good First Person Dungeon Crawler

One of my favourite genres is the First Person Dungeon Crawler*. This, of course, is a sub-category of the RPG genre; a sub-sub-category even, considering that I’m splitting hairs by prefacing the Dungeon Crawler genre with Firs...

 
 
 
 

½ Review: The Messenger

If there was a witty subtitle to this review it would be “A game of two halves…” – BECAUSE THE GAME CHANGES HALF WAY THROUGH. Is that a spoiler? Probably, if you didn’t know that already; if you hadn&rsq...

 
 
 
 

½ Review: Santa Claus Junior (Game Boy Color)

It’s nearly Christmas! Oh god, what a bundle of stress: dealing with family, getting presents ready, cooking, travelling; and finally, worst of all, struggling to find a worthwhile Christmas themed videogame to comment on! Oh dea...

 
 
 

½ Review: Bloodborne (PS4)

The streets are empty, the doors are all locked. But something is at large. Something is running through the alleyways, rummaging through the bins, clawing at the brick work. Close the curtains, check the doors are barred and pray, pra...

 
 
 

½ Review: Hotel Dusk (Nintendo DS)

  Hotel Dusk is simultaneously an effective page-turner-mystery and quite a boring video game; it’s part interactive fiction and part point and click adventure. But a point and click adventure in which you’re looking f...

 
 
 

½ Review: Silent Hill (PS1)

Silent Hill seemed extremely mysterious when I first saw it in a shop catalogue. Resident Evil was zombies, Dino Crisis was dinosaurs (dino-horror… has that already been coined?), but what was Silent Hill? Misty streets and amb...

 
 

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