To better understand Immortals Fenyx Rising – the action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft about a Greek warrior named Fenyx, who is trying to stop a Titan from ruling the world – it’s important to compare it to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This is not because of their many superficial similarities – as it blatantly borrows many ideas, mechanics, and even the general art style from Nintendo’s behemoth – but because of their stark differences in structure. At a first glance, they may appear to be very much alike, but the core of both games couldn’t be more distinct.
Breath of the Wild is all about the exploration of a fully realized post-apocalyptic fantasy world. [...]
The remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, released for the Nintendo Switch, presents an old classic with a new but problematic coat of paint. It still offers the same adventure set in a memorable setting that is both mysterious and tragic, but now with an art style that robs the narrative of some of its impact.
The game opens with Link sailing alone during a fearsome storm. After a shipwreck, he wakes up on Koholint Island, having been found on its shores by a girl named Marin. He is brought to her village and soon discovers that the only way of escaping the island is by waking the Wind Fish, who is sleeping inside a giant egg atop a mountain.
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Battle Chasers: Nightwar, a turn-based RPG based on Joe Madureira’s fantasy comic, boasts a beautiful art style and a serviceable, if repetitive combat system. Unfortunately, its barebones story leaves much to be desired: Nightwar may look and play alright, but the narrative element that could have improved the experience is just not there.
The story follows a group of misfits, led by a girl named Gully, who wears a pair of magical gauntlets from her dead father, who was once a great hero. This puts a target on her back, but fortunately, she has some friends (the swordsman Garrison, the golem Calibretto, the rogue Red Monika, and the wizard Knolan) to protect her. These [...]
Based on a Russian novel of the same name, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033 is a first-person shooter with a focus on atmosphere and worldbuilding. It provides a tense and memorable experience due to its striking setting and quirky details, but its bare-bones story, filled with paper-thin characters and a noble, but naïve anti-war message, ultimately rings hollow.
The world of Metro 2033 is its selling point. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic Russia, where people were driven underground by hordes of devilish monsters and demons. They live in the subway, with scarce resources, and are under constant attack of creatures and other desperate humans. While the [...]
The Forgotten City is a first-person adventure game concerned with the bearing culture and religion have on people’s lives: how they shape their worldview, dictate what is right and wrong, affect everyday decisions, and push them to certain behaviors. It’s also a time loop story and a rare one at that, in the sense that it cares much more about its themes and setting than about the gimmick itself.
The protagonist (we can select their gender and a brief backstory) wakes up on a riverbank one day with no memory of how they got there. Soon they meet a strange woman named Karen, who urges them to go look for a friend, who went to search the nearby ruins and never returned. [...]
On paper, Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is a perfectly competent entry in the series, getting a lot of the basics of a survival horror right, successfully building a tense atmosphere while giving limited ammo to the player. The problem is that, just like its many monsters, the game lacks a soul: its design choices and storyline are so bland and uninspired that, even though Revelations 2 is far from being the worst entry in the series, it’s certainly one of the most forgettable Resident Evil games.
The game opens with an ad about the dangers of bioterrorism, advertising how politicians and big companies should not be trusted. It’s selling a private organization called TerraSave [...]