Richard Walker's Reviews
Bearing witness to the recent beat 'em up resurgence has been an unbridled joy. It's brought us a glut of fantastic retro brawlers, from St...
Not all spin-offs are a success. See Mortal Kombat: Special Forces or Umbrella Corps for proof. The Monster Hunter Stories series, the first two in...
For several years now, the WWE 2K series has been churning out reliably good wrestling games, developer Visual Concepts honing its mechanics and syst...
Released in 2023, Planet of Lana is a cinematic side-scrolling puzzle platformer. Planet of Lana 2: Children of the Leaf is, of course, the sequel, ...
For Resident Evil Requiem, it feels like Capcom is hedging its bets. Do you want to play from a first-person or third-person perspective? It's u...
Styx is a little goblin fella. He likes to sneak around with his dagger primed, ready to open the jugular of anyone who gets in his way. He's gre...
Did you enjoy the unhinged toilety humour of the first High on Life? Then, chances are, you'll probably get a kick out of the same brand of madc...
Does Yakuza 3 need a remake? It's already been remastered, and, I'd argue that the game holds up rather well, having originally released fo...
Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past first released back in 2000, and was previously given the remake treatment for the 3DS in 2013. Dra...
For many, no RPG is imbued with as much nostalgia as Final Fantasy VII. One of the original PlayStation's most iconic, beloved, and memorable gam...
Upon its release in cinemas back in 1991, Terminator 2: Judgment Day was huge. Unsurprisingly, the movie's success gave rise to video game adapt...
From the very moment your character wakes up in Routine, confined to a small room with nothing more than a perfunctory bed and shower, you can't...
Marvel Cosmic Invasion is the work of developer Tribute Games, the studio that, in 2022, brought us Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Rev...
The most difficult thing about The Jackbox Party Pack is assembling enough friends and/or family to play the damn thing with you. But with the season...
I've always been a bit of a Call of Duty campaign apologist. Even the ones that have fallen relatively wide of the mark have always seemed to ha...
In Biped 2, you play as an adorable robot that's essentially a head stuck to two wonky little legs. The premise is that each of those limbs is c...
In Monster Hunter Stories, your plucky protagonist is not a Hunter. Instead, they're a burgeoning young Rider, looking to prove their worth in an...
Will 2025 be remembered as the year of the survivors-like auto-shooter? Probably not, but here's another one anyway. This one is called Let Them...
Despite being a 3D fighting game pioneer, Virtua Fighter has always struck me as being the serious big brother of the genre. Or perhaps even the ster...
Mortal Kombat first released when I was the tender age of ten, and, as such, it proved to be utterly fascinating to my young eyes, what with its blood...