Tag: Virtual Bastion

I Can’t Stop Playing Balatro

A few weeks ago, I picked up Balatro on the recommendation of a friend. It looked interesting enough thanks to its throwback visual style and seemingly simplistic gameplay loop. But I still figured that I wouldn’t actually end up spending a ton of time on it. After all, it was just a poker simulator with…

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The Talos Principle 2: Better, Bigger, Brilliant

SPOILERS from the get-go, while my complaints about The Talos Principle 2 are mostly minimal, when I discovered late in the game that I could not return to New Jerusalem, essentially the game’s “home base,” before reaching the endgame, I felt decidedly sour. If something or someone had indicated a point of no return earlier,…

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Silent Hill 2 Art Director Drops Major Piece of Lore

One of the great things about Silent Hill 2 is that just about the entire experience is open to interpretation. You can read almost anything you want into it and can interpret the symbology in almost anyway, allowing everyone to make the story their own in a way. Still, there are interpretations that are more…

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Revisited: There’s Always Time for Animal Crossing

With the holiday season approaching and scehdules getting tighter and more hectic, I thought now would be a good opportunity to take a moment and think about those games that you can always find a little time for, one of those being Animal Crossing!

Dragon Age: The Veilguard First Impressions

While I count the Dragon Age games among my most favorite RPGs of all time now, it wasn’t always like that. My first playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins was distracted, at best. I had a false start with Inquisition, and I held the second game in contempt for far longer than was warranted. While I…

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The Horror that Surrounds: The Dead City Lives

Post-apocalyptic visions are a dime a dozen in games these days. Players regularly travel through forgotten, decrepit scenes that live on in the wake of some terrible disaster. That could be a war, a pandemic, a case of technology gone berserk, or something else entirely. The point is that these spaces are shrouded by more…

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The Horror That Surrounds: All Bets are of in the Bottom of the Well

Well, we’re just about at the end of another Spooktober season, and once again it went all too quickly, don’t you think? I don’t know about you, dear reader, but I rather enjoyed this year’s festivities! So much so that I found myself thinking back a few years to our Zeldaween event and just how…

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