OK, how to Describe Backbone… It’s 2016, you’re in the cinema with your family. or your bestie, seeing the newest big Disney release. Zootopia. Or Zootroplis if you live in the UK. Something to do with Milkshakes? Anyway, you’re enjoying…
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Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town Review – City Slicker
When I first started Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, I thought to myself that this looks like a Harvest Moon knock off. (I mean more than your typical farming sim) After a little digging, it turns out it is a remake of a Harvest Moon game…
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Seed of Life review – Time to save the world
Games give us so many opportunities to do things that we wouldn’t be able to do in real life, from travelling to different dimensions or having superpowers to destroying or saving the world. Often the best part of these experiences…
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Bloxx, Thekla, Bristol, 28/10/21
Sometimes you see an act and know they are going to be huge. After seeing Bloxx hit the stage aboard Bristol’s Thekla on Thursday, it’s undeniable that (if there is any justice in the world) they will be massive. Proceedings…
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Skindred, Tramshed, Cardiff, 7/10/21
It takes some stones to open your set by playing AC/DC and then stomping onto the stage to the Imperial March. Skindred is the kind of band to do something that audacious and then effortlessly top it. At a packed…
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UnMetal Review – A crime you didn’t commit
“In 1972, a crack commando squad threw you in prison for a crime you did not commit. You promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the underground trying to survive from these soldiers of fortune.” This s the set-up to…
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Residual (Switch) Review – Your stamina is low
Residual is the first Orangepixel title I have had the pleasure of playing. In fact, as a father of two girls, it is the only new game I have played at all in around two years. So my review will focus…
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The Wildhearts, Tramshed, Cardiff, 3/9/21
It’s been about 18 months since I went to a proper gig. Something it seems I have in common with The Wildhearts. Their first gig since the pandemic completely derailed life, the universe and everything; it was clear from the…
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What the Dub (PS4) review- Next Sunday, A.D
Welcome to the not too distant future! If you are the kind of person who can’t help but take the piss when watching an awful movie or have always wanted to be blasted off into space to live with your…
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Hades (Switch) Review – Supergiant must have sold their soul to make this one
Both the title of my review and Nintendo have let the secret out: Hades from Supergiant Games has escaped early access and landed on Nintendo Switch and PC. It’s Rouge-like without equal is easily one of the best games of…
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Silk (Switch) Review: Long and winding road
I’m not entirely sure I know what Silk is trying to be. Its main selling points are having the “biggest hand-crafted world of all time”, and it’s authenticity as a love-letter to the tile-based RPGs of the ’80s. But here’s…
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Northgard (Switch) Review: I Can’t Read These Runs
In an effort to offer another RTS/civ-building game on the Switch (and other consoles) Shiro Games has ported the Viking RTS, Northgard, to the hybrid console. Though the inspirations from other civilization RTS games is clearly visible in its design…
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Headliner:Novinews (Switch) Review: Read All About It
Unbound Creations new game Headliner:Novinews debuted as many indie games do on the Switch these days: with a whisper. It charges players with the role of editor for a news conglomerate and with this title comes great responsibility. With little…
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Masquerada: Song of Shadows (Switch) Review: Nobody cared who I was, till I put on the mask
Masquerada: song of shadows looks enticing at first glance. It’s got a beautiful art style and a wonderful cast of voice actors at its disposal. It’s unfortunate then that a game with so much promise, handcrafted by a team of…
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Home Sweet Home (PS4/VR) review: P.T disorder
Yggdrazil Group’s Home Sweet Home offers gamers a mix of P.T inspired scares and Thai mythology, that hits just as much as it misses. In proper P.T fashion, the game opens with the protagonist waking up in an unknown place,…
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Dave Hause and The Mermaid, Thekla, Bristol, 15/05/19
The first time I saw Dave Hause was at Portsmouth’s Wedgewood Rooms in 2011, he was the opening act of The Revival Tour alongside Chuck Reagan, Dan Andriano and Brian Fallon, a tour he told a packed Thekla on Wednesday…
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