Review – Forza Horizon 4 (PC, Xbox One)
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Review – Forza Horizon 4 (PC, Xbox One)

Microsoft - 2018 The Good Stunning VisualsGameplay has a ton of variety and courses and carsThe car Livery system is pretty great The Bad The PC version is a pretty mediocre port of the console versionThere are a lot of bugs.The Online Scene isn't great Racing is a genre of games that I don't really obsess over but I often come back to. It's quite possibly my secret favorite genre. I bought an N64 so I could play Cruisin USA, I played a ton of Gran Turismo 2 on my Playstation, I played a bunch of Need for Speed games.…
Review – The Binding of Isaac (PC)
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Review – The Binding of Isaac (PC)

So, the makers of Super Meat Boy, Team Meat, apparently have an old school Nintendo Fetish of the worst kind.  First you have Super Meat Boy, which has vague connotations of Super Mario Brothers.  Though the reality is the name is all it really has in common with Super Mario Brothers, that and being a side scrolling platform game.  The Binding of Isaac is sort of like this, only with The Legend of Zelda.  It sort of has the same cadence and style in name and shares a lot of game play style. The reality is, other than the basic…
Review – High School Dreams (PC)
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Review – High School Dreams (PC)

April 15, 2010 | DR Studios Back in my college days i played a fair number of Japanese “dating simulators”.  The style pushed by these games tends to be still image graphics with walls and walls of expositional text.  Occasionally you make a choice.  It’s sort of like a Choose your own adventure book.  High School Dreams is sort of an American take on the same basic concept.  This game has a fairly rough development history according to Wikipedia.  Originally developed by Eidos, it was dumped when SquareEnix bought out Eidos.  After being dumped, DR Studios went on to develop…
Review – The Path (PC)
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Review – The Path (PC)

Tale of Tales | March 18th, 2009 Ok, so I did a review a while back of The Graveyard, also by Tale of Tales.  If the graveyard is essentially a pointless tech demo, The Path is the final product.  The Path takes the story of Little red Riding Hood and creeps it out into a spooky horror story.  You must navigate each of 6 sisters through the woods to meet with Grandmother at her house.  The only instructions you get from the game are to “Stay on the Path”.  The path is just that, a path running through the forest…
Review – The Graveyard (PC)
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Review – The Graveyard (PC)

Tale of Tales | March 21, 2008 I’m going to be up front here.  This isn’t much of a “review”.  It is more of a commentary on a “game”.  The graveyard is not a game in any real traditional sense.  Even Universe Sandbox, which is more of a simulator, still has some gamey aspects to it.  The only real gamey aspects here are the fact that it runs on a PC and is a 3D rendering with basic controls. There is no real plot, there is only one character, unless you count the birds in the background.  You play as…