Category Archives: AAA

Nier: Automata — Review

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Games with lightning fast combat are a bit of a vice of mine.  Titles like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and the Devil May Cry franchise may not tell the best stories but the flashy, high octane style always draws me in.  Nier: Automata boasts a similar combat system and is one of the most unique games I’ve ever played mixing genres with ease on its way to 26 different endings.  It’s a hell of a ride.

Fighting machines with a sword as a blindfolded android is one of the least strange things this game has to offer.

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Mass Effect: Andromeda — Review

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The ~150 hours I’ve put into the Mass Effect trilogy are probably on the lower end of the scale but man did I love those games.  My version of Commander Shepard was a renegade to the core with a soft spot for his squad members.  The fact that I couldn’t save both Tali and Legion in Mass Effect 3 because of a single choice I made in Mass Effect 2 still bothers me all these years later.  It’s easy to see why Mass Effect: Andromeda made my most anticipated games of 2017 list.

I’ve poured a little over 40 hours into Bioware’s newest addition to the franchise and I have to agree with Alex’s first impressions.  Mass Effect: Andromeda is a good Mass Effect game that reaches too far at times but still hits enough high notes.

Mass Effect: Andromeda has a lot to see and more to do but not enough polish to put it on a pedestal.

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Horizon Zero Dawn — Review

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Horizon Zero Dawn was touted as the PS4s next big exclusive.  I had it as my most anticipated game of the year.  The descriptors sound like a perfect storm: open world, post apocalypse, robots.  I’ve spent the better part of the last three weeks playing Guerilla Games’s latest release and all the hype is deserved.  Horizon Zero Dawn is the best game I’ve played in a long time and easily my current game of the year.

Horizon Zero Dawn raises the bar for open world games

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For Honor — Review

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Remember when you were a kid and would argue over who would win in a fight between Batman and Superman or cowboys and ninjas?  Ubisoft’s latest game asks you a similar question: knights, vikings, or samurai?  For Honor was on my most anticipated list for 2017 and after almost 20 hours of play, the hype was real.  It’s a simple to learn, hard to master fighting game with some downright brutal combat.

Shield uppercuts are a good way to end a fight.

Shield uppercuts are a good way to end a fight.

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Resident Evil 7 — Review

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The Resident Evil series is one of the biggest names in gaming going all the way back to the original PS1 title in 1996.  I’ll never forget playing the GameCube remake of that game and seeing a crimson head run towards me in a hallway mirror.  Resident Evil 4 is one of my all time favorite games, but 5 and 6 focused too much on action instead of the horror that defined the series.  After watching a friend play the demo for Resident Evil 7 on PSVR, I was ready to give the series another shot.

Many people are asking if Resident Evil 7 brings the series back to its roots.  I can definitively say that it does and I have the increased blood pressure to prove it.

Welcome to a glorious nightmare.

Welcome to a glorious nightmare.

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The Last Guardian — Review

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Duke Nukem Forever.  Final Fantasy XV.  The Last Guardian.  We live in a world where all three of these games, once thought to be myths, actually exist.  I’ve played DNF (which was awful), I’m going to play FF XV soon, and I finished The Last Guardian a few days ago.  I didn’t play Team Ico’s two previous games, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, but I just had to see what a game originally shown of in 2009 turned into.  The final product is an emotional journey of a boy and his companion creature that suffers from some technical mishaps and imperfect mechanics.

Flawed yet emotional, The Last Guardian is worth your time.

Flawed yet emotional, The Last Guardian is worth your time.

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