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Avowed (Series X): RPG Comfort Food with Flashes of Genius

Avowed (Series X): RPG Comfort Food with Flashes of Genius

This latest RPG from Obsidian feels very familiar. In reductive terms, it's an amalgamation of a lot of popular, modern Western RPGS. The first person perspective, with a focus on combat and exploration, brings Elder Scrolls to mind (a breezy, colourful fantasy world that's more Oblivion

A Game About Digging a Hole (PC): A Review About a Video Game

A Game About Digging a Hole (PC): A Review About a Video Game

You can just dig. Forget the sandbox, this is a mudbox: a limited environment but one that offers impressive freedom in specific restraints. It is an exercise in pure game mechanics where you have one key verb and you execute it.

Monster Hunter Wilds (Series X): Refining the Kill at the Expense of the Hunt

Monster Hunter Wilds (Series X): Refining the Kill at the Expense of the Hunt

2018's Monster Hunter: World felt like a realisation moment for the franchise. Though it streamlined certain elements, and while I'd personally still take the Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate over it, the execution cemented it as a real step forwards. The base structure of Monster Hunter, still