If someone asked me what kind of game Expelled! is, I would say it is a visual novel, or a mystery novel stylized in a video game. Its experience is akin to what many Agatha Christie novels were when I first read them —bleak, and justice served was not always what I would have imagined.…
Monster Hunter franchise had lots on its shoulders —it’s been 21 years since the first title was released in 2004. World, previous title for non-portable devices from 2018, had introduced new set of features to entice new gamers. Wilds, on the other hand, had to compete against plethora of other RPGs that are quite literally…
Atlus does not make an easy game to hop on. The developer is behind one of those franchises that predates modern gaming conventions, ones that are hard sell for new gamers. Not only playing all the previous installments be nearly impossible without getting one’s hands on a retro console, the games are simply too dated…
There is some irony in that a remake of original Dead Space and the alleged spiritual successor Callisto Protocol came out in the same year. Unfortunately, neither games have performed well to carry on the torch that is the horror sci-fi. The latest news I could find on either of the IPs were that neither…
I found out No Umbrellas Allowed after I had short, yet fun, experience with Good Pizza, Great Pizza. I was ready to see more difficult customers in different context, and this being the pawn shop, —or secondhand shop— I was expecting to see some real actions. Not the gun blazing kind, of course. I played…
The Wandering Earth is a trilogy loosely based on a sci-fi novella by the same name, and this is the first installment of the franchise. I won’t be talking about the novella or the author in depth. But I can add a bit of context for anyone who is wondering what it is in the…
Portal is a master piece. Allow me to rephrase that: Portal 2 is the master piece. The influential puzzle platformer only became independent from Half-Life since its sequel, and it set some ground rules for FPS puzzle genre in its age. And the rules still stand firm, as many games since have tried to overthrow…
East Berlin, on the fateful night of the fall of the Berlin Wall, is when Industria is not set. Yes, you read the copy correctly. The game supposedly begins with East Germany, but the game takes place in the city of Hakavik, a place not in East Germany. Its prologue hints the beginning of the…
My first experience with the Dungeons & Dragons IP was actually the movie, Dungeons & Dragons from the year 2000. The film was a failure in both box office figures and critiques. One thing I do know since is that the half-century old TRPG doesn’t have a “main quest” that can be adapted to a…
Poppy Playtime as an indie horror game has a special place in many PC gamers’ heart. There is no doubt it has a special place in my heart as well, only that place doesn’t happen to coincide with “great” in “great-ok-fail” scale. Chapter 1 went viral as a new player in horror game with its…
The high bar set for Roomba’s software can only be resolved by upgrading its hardware. Features such as “linked clean” would have been entirely unnecessary if iRobot pioneered the combo market and concentrated its efforts only on the combo models. In the previous posts, I have discussed about iRobot’s software solutions in part 1 and…
When iRobot launched its gen. 3 navigation system with forward-looking cameras, the robot duos needed a software update to stay competitive. In the previous post, I’ve talked about problems that could have been solved by softwares without significant changes to the hardware. Now we are talking about problems and solutions that sit somewhere in between.…
iRobot, possibly the frontier of consumer robot vacuums, is now just about late in all the robot games imaginable. The company’s lack of direction in developing either hardware or software solution to the average household problems has left the latest iRobot vacuum, Roomba Combo 10 Max, with poorly received reviews. Seeing as iRobot made it…
I personally did not like the first Amnesia game when it came out. The Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a game published in 2010 was most popular on the new platform called “YouTube” and played by the up and coming online stars called “YouTubers”. I recall having a stock YouTube app, a social media app I…
My first Silent Hill was Silent Hill 4: The Room; though I couldn’t push myself through the end. It might come as a surprise, but by the time I was interested in the franchise, I didn’t have the old consoles to play the OG titles. All old franchises suffer from the similar problem; average modern…