A couple of days ago I finished playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and it’s taken me a bit of time to stop and consider what I thought of it, and where I’d place it amongst the other games in the series. You see, I&r...

The first Metal Gear Solid game has a really good ending that concludes much of the story (the "Shadow Moses Incident") nicely, while also setting up a sequel by having some unresolved plotlines and a massive 'WTF!' moment after the main c...

It took me a long time to love Metal Gear Solid. Back when I purchased my first Sony PlayStation I couldn’t really appreciate the slower-paced stealthy gameplay and found the whole thing to be much too difficult for my impatient youn...

I’ve had August off from my themed gaming months of 2015, once I finished The Witcher III: Wild Hunt I’ve had a busy schedule and a trip to Japan, with the only games I’ve squeezed in the meantime being shorter affairs li...

Lately I’ve been in the mood to play a so called “walking simulator”, something like Ether One, but I tried that game and found it to be an ugly and empty experience (I might revisit it again but it’s unlikely). Rec...

After a somewhat stagnant 2014, where much of the games I was looking forward to were pushed back, 2015 has been a killer-year for videogames so far, at least for me.  Behemoths like Bloodborne and The Witcher III: Wild Hunt had been ...

Over the last few years there has been a real backlash over buying videogames at the time of release, as well as a greater and more aggressive movement against pre-ordering games in general, both from local stores and online retailers. I t...

I remember being outraged, back when Never Alone (or Kisima Innitchuna) was originally released, by the review posted on Eurogamer, and not necessarily because they gave the game an unprecedented 10/10 that I just couldn’t believe fo...

Well, it ended up running over a bit, but this post concludes my “Witcher Month” that actually started over a month ago way back in June!! Earlier today I *finally* finished playing The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, which is now an a...

I’m now over 80 hours (EDIT: actually 120 hours now!) into The Witcher III: Wild Hunt and, at a guess, maybe half way through although I’m not sure. When I started my ‘Witcher Month’ over June and July I honestly th...

After the relatively sedate Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt kicks the events of the Witcher Saga up a notch! This second book in the core saga is once again translated by David French, who also translated Sword of Destiny, and who I don&r...

Today I took a break from playing The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, which is a contender for my game of the year so far, and played through one of my favourite games of all time; Journey, lovingly remastered on PS4. This is a straight up 1080p 6...

When I first played CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher roleplaying game I had come straight off the back of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, an open-world behemoth that remains to this day one of the best videogames I’ve ever played. ...

(Presented below is a guest review by my *awesome* wife for Life is Strange that she wrote for her own blog – the original can be found here – which usually focusses on book reviews and the writing process (she is currently writ...

After the initial couple of short story collections (The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny) Blood of Elves marks the first full novel for the Witcher saga of books and a complete change of pace, with the story largely consisting of “set...

My ‘Month of Final Fantasy’ has officially come to an end, and to be honest I didn’t get through as much stuff as I wanted, but I did finish Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call (and reviewed it very highly – it&...

Originally published in 1992, it’s taken until May 2015 (coinciding with the release of The Witcher III: Wild Hunt) for Andrzej Sapkowski’s Sword of Destiny to finally be translated into English, this time by David French. Desp...

I had been adventuring alone for some time across the icy wastes of Skyrim before I stumbled upon the Temple of Mara in Riften, having never even contemplated the idea of marriage before, but now deciding perhaps I should find myself ...

I remember picking up a PS3 the year that they announced The Last Guardian, in eager anticipation of this amazing-looking follow-up to my most cherished videogame of all time, Shadow of the Colossus. It has been absolutely gutting wat...

In The Witcher III: Wild Hunt you can pick up a book called The Last Wish, I found a copy early in the game where you first meet Yennefer, which explains a little about the relationship between Geralt and the sorceress.  This is ...

Across the month(s) of May and June I’ve been playing and writing about videogames in the Final Fantasy series, including new entries such as Final Fantasy Type 0 HD (review coming soon) and also some stuff that’s been sit...

Back in 2012, Square-Enix decided to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Final Fantasy, the long-running videogame series that’s the focus of this month’s themed gaming. As part of this anniversary celebration they created t...

Continuing my series of retrospectives as part of my ‘Final Fantasy Month’ today I’m discussing Bravely Default on the Nintendo 3DS, another of my favourite entries in this long-running videogame series. Now, you mig...

I’ve already written a retrospective blog gushing about my favourite two games in the Final Fantasy series, namely Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X, but my third place deserves a bit more space to talk about. Firstly becaus...

In a previous blog post, at the very start of 2015, I made a list of my most anticipated games for the year. Well, some have already been released and were *incredible* (the sublime Majora’s Mask 3D and mighty Bloodborne), while ...

The picture above is my collection of mainline Final Fantasy games (excluding spin-off titles like Theatrhythm), which should hopefully be a good indicator that I’m a big fan, in fact this videogame series is one of my all-time ...

Something I have been enjoying thus far in 2015 is theming my months of gaming. Already this year I’ve had a Month of Zelda and a Month of ‘Souls, where I have written articles and reviews of videogames in the Legend of Ze...

As someone who considers the ‘Souls games to be some of the very best ever made, I picked up Dark Souls II immediately upon its release in 2014, and although it wasn’t an instant classic like other games in the series, it ...

It’s my “Month of ‘Souls” and I’ve nearly finished my playthrough of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin; the current-gen remaster of From Software’s sequel, with altered enemy and item placemen...

As a *massive* fan of the Demon's Souls and Dark Souls video games, I've always been interested in Berserk. The ‘Souls series creator, Hidetaka Miyazaki, has always stated that the manga and anime has been a huge influence on th...