While drafting this review I continually hit a wall in the form of the question “How do you review a game that is all about secrets?” Secrets, by their nature, are supposed to be hidden. So by explaining why Secrets of Rætikon is good I could easily ruin it. With that in mind, I have attempted to pen this review in a such a way as to withhold the secrets while also exploring the Secrets of Rætikon. Secrets of Rætikon places you in control of a man-bird-thing. You are...
A few years ago at PAX Prime several, of the LevelSave crew members sat on a couch and played game called Chasing Aurora. We sat there for far too long, passing Wii remotes and the Wii U Tablet to and fro, hooting with dread and joy. My main memory from that couch excursion was playing a modified version of tag with our bird characters. One player would have a lanturn in their talons while the other would try and hunt them down. The Wii Remote players would share a screen...
This is the trailer shown at the end of the most recent Nintendo Direct. It shows off and reveals the new characters Charizard and Geninja for Super Smash Brothers. Super Smash Brothers for 3DS will be released Summer 2014. The Wii U version will be released shortly after in Winter of 2014. The video itself is in Japanese, but you can probably suss it out. More detailed information and screenshots can be found here.
Today Nintendo hosted a Nintendo Direct that was all about Super Smash Brothers Wii U and 3DS. Everyone was expecting to see new characters announced but none seemingly were. Then, in typical Nintendo tomfoolery, the screen faded up and hundreds of Pokemon rained from the sky like meteorites. Charizard faced against the sky and was confirmed with a “Charizard Fires It Up!” He ascended to the sky and came crashing down inches from Mario. During the fight a shadow...
When the original Hotline Miami was released it snuck right past me. The talk of egregious violence surrounding the game pushed me further away from it still. Through a Humble Bundle it ended up in my Steam library and got itself a pensive click. I immediately understood the error of my ways and proceeded to fall deep into a psychedelic killing haze. Bragging time: I actually Platinumed the game on Vita. With the ferocious love I hold for Hotline Miami, it is safe to assume...
The past couple years have been slick with irony. Everywhere you look people are doing things they do not really enjoy for indecipherable reasons. Over time this has slowly evolved into an unironic appreciation of the ironic; this may or may not itself be ironic. In more succinct terms, the irony has backfired and made me personally, enjoy what are objectively the dumbest things. That is why, when I received an email informing me of the existence of a game called Broforce I...
Hohokum! It’s that time yet again; time for another episode of This Game is Broken. In this week’s episode Kenny Rioux joins the regular crew of Barry, Matt, and Chris to talk about stuff. That stuff includes but is not limited to, Luftrausers, Candy Crush, Tiny Death Star, Disco Zoo, Blimps, Dirigibles, Lighter-than-air craft, Final Fantasy X, Amnesia, Silent Hill 2, Amy Henning, Dead Space, Metal Gear Solid, The Last of Us, The Hindenburg, Kissing Matt’s...
In spite of April tomfoolery, Activision steamed forward and stealth released a new DLC pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts. The DLC, named Actual Ghosts, does not have a price but rather runic symbols that feel familiar despite being untranslatable. We can expect to see a patch soon though as we are hearing cases of a glitch that causes your system to scream ceaselessly upon downloading Actual Ghosts. It contains 666 new maps, 664 of them being a single cell that your character...
Before we begin let us get my personal bias out of the way. I loved Batman: Arkham Asylum, loathed Arkham City, and did not even bother to play Batman: Arkham Origins. With that in mind, Batman: Arkham Knight has me hopeful. Current-Gen hardware is still something of a mystery in terms of what is possible. Rocksteady could create a living world, full of secrets and joy. They could also create a stark wasteland, full of meaningless collectables and even more meaningless fetch...
Hohokum! Hey guys and gals and robots and space aliens! We’re back with another episode all about games. In this episode Barry eats and entire cheesecake steak, we discuss how crazy Metal Gear is, talk about Final Fantasy 6, Ratchet & Clank, Candy Crush, Persona 4, Titanfall, Lizards, doggy love, Infamous: Second Son, destroying Pokemon, and much, much more! We’re now on iTunes! This Game is Broken 15 Intro music is 8-bit Introduction by EliteFerrex Metal Gear...
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