Dodge This
HIGH Taking someone out with the ball they threw at me.
LOW Microtransactions in a paid release.
WTF Having a dedicated button for the phrase, “Throw me!”
Knockout City Review
Author: Mike Suskie
Griftlands Review
Card For Hire
HIGH Reducing a character’s morale via negotiation, then going in for the kill.
LOW The cluttered interface, especially on Switch.
WTF The alien dialect is actionably similar to Twi’leki.
Necromunda: Hired Gun Review
Shooting Almost Straight
HIGH Getting a grappling hook during a train level.
LOW A big emphasis on unnecessary RPG elements.
WTF Seeing trash mobs materialize right before my eyes.
This Is Not A Review: Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, developed by Snoozy Kazoo and published by Graffiti Games.
Red Ronin Review
Kill Bill(ions Of Fools)
HIGH The first half.
LOW The timed levels.
WTF A confusing subplot involving another assassin.
The original Everspace — which I Did Not Review back when it came out — was something of an oddity. A space combat roguelike, it inserted some pretty stunning production values into a subgenre that, at the time, was largely confined to low-budget indie projects. We got the gorgeous vistas and exciting dogfights of a modern Freespace successor, but folded and fitted into a digestible run-based structure. HIGH The protagonist is thoroughly believable. LOW An unsatisfying ending. WTF The horse gulping down apples in a single bite. HIGH The Rider skull. LOW The “normal” difficulty is ludicrously harsh. WTF Anything to do with the plot. My time with The Medium has convinced me that if videogames ever hope to be held in the same regard as literature and cinema on the storytelling front, they need editors — someone whose entire job is to determine what stays and what goes, and to arrange the remaining pieces into something focused and coherent. Eugh. I shouldn’t have waited to do this.Everspace 2 Preview
Adios Review
Interview With The Assassin
Skul: The Hero Slayer Review
No Bones To Pick
The Middling Medium
Suskie’s Top Ten
