There’s a unique difficulty to reviewing episodic games that differs from episodes of a TV season. As an experience, episodes of video games feel much more like playing hours of a self-contained vignette, rather than one segment of a whole.
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‘Life is Strange 2’ finds humanity in the inhumanity of Trumpian politics
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On very rare occasions, a video game comes along that harnesses the incredible yet too often untapped potential unique to the medium, and speaks to issues in a way no other medium can.
The shorthand used for this unique potential of interactive media is empathy, usually in reference to how players identify with a game’s protagonist. But it’s a word often overused and misused by an industry that does little to earn it. But Life is Strange 2 is that uncommon gift, where it doesn’t just deliver on the promise to inhabit the life of another person as if it were your own.
It goes a step further by using its undeniable humanity to speak to an inhumane moment in our political landscape — all while avoiding the uncomfortable territory of soapboxing or exploiting the pain of the marginalized lives at brunt of those politics. Read more…
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View More ‘Life is Strange 2’ finds humanity in the inhumanity of Trumpian politics‘Shadow of the Tomb Raider’ throws back to that butler you used to lock in the freezer
This story contains light story spoilers, including a description of what happens during a post-credits scene.
Tomb Raider: a gift from the ’90s that just cannot stop giving.
On Sept. 14, Square Enix will release the third and final installment of it…
‘Captain Spirit’ is a flawed, admirable game about escapism and abuse
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This review contains mild spoilers for the ending of the 2-3 hour demo of The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit.
Games that address the hard truths of reality, like child abuse, are a rarity — to say the least.
So it’s truly a shame when games which take this admirable risk often feel this anxiety to suddenly veer into the fantastical. And its a dissonance that almost always comes at the expense of the real-world themes the story sets out to explore.
Perhaps no studio and series encapsulates this more than DONTNOD’s narrative adventure game Life is Strange, and by extension, its free 2-3 hour spinoff The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. A precursor demo to Life is Strange 2, Captain Spirit tells a story set in the same universe but only tangentially related to the sequel. Read more…
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Square Enix didn’t show off much at its E3 2018 showcase
Well, Square Enix just wrapped up a short and uneventful E3 press conference that really seemed to phone it in. No Final Fantasy VII remake details and nothing on The Avengers or Guardians of the Galaxy. The hyped presentation did have plenty to share on a new Tomb Raider title which they devoted about seven […]
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In a rather short showcase at E3 Monday, Square Enix teased a handful of games — mostly ones that have already been announced — to get people excited about what’s in store for the near future.
With new trailers for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Dragon Quest XI, and a promising new intellectual property from Platinum Games called Babylon’s Fall, Square Enix brought a little bit of hype to fans, but not nearly as much as some other publishers did over the weekend.
Without further ado, here are the highlights from Square Enix’s E3 showcase: Read more…
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View More The most exciting games from Square Enix’s E3 showcaseOne of the best RPGs of all time is now on PC
Chrono Trigger has long been regarded as one of the best role-playing games of all time and now it’s finally on PC.
With no warning, 1995’s Chrono Trigger came out on Steam Tuesday. The classic time-bending SNES and PlayStation game has alr…