My Reviews

Tightly-balanced and expertly-crafted, this is an often stressful and sometimes terrifying experience that will leave you breathless, white-knuckled, and hungry for more. RE4 Remake is unmissable.

A reinvention and evolution both, Street Fighter 6 is a triumph of beatdown, breakneck fun in a world you'll actively want to spend time in.

Somewhere between the highs of Blood Money/Contracts and the lows of Silent Assassin/Absolution, it reuses a lot of levels and ideas from previous games, but Hitman 3 is the sharpest it's ever been.

Elden Ring is a highly flawed but deeply remarkable achievement. It's a masterpiece, and an essential game for any adventurer's library.

DOOM Eternal builds on the success of DOOM (2016) and propels it to exhilarating new heights. It’s a breathtaking and immensely rewarding experience and perhaps the best first-person-shooter ever.

Pumpkin Jack is a spoopy holiday platformer featuring an imaginative art style, a memorable soundtrack, fun boss fights, and linear level design that's solid from start to finish.

Ghost of Tsushima is fun, but it gets repetitive over time due to its nature as an open-world checklist. While better than any Assassin's Creed in recent memory, this game deserved to be remembered as so much more.

One of the most engaging and funnest games ever made, Helldivers 2 is an upgrade to the first game in every way. Highly recommended for friends looking to exercise their democratic rights.

An A-Tier game from a B-Movie concept, Maneater is an open-world feeding frenzy of mindless fun.

RUINER is an excellent exercise in violence and style. Locales can be a bit repetitive, but the murderball and cyber-dystopia are the stars here. Get 'em, Puppy!

A beautiful game with a concise length and fun gameplay. It's a good game to grab on sale for a few hours of mindless but precise fun.

A throwback and a leap forward all-in-one, MK11 is one of the best fighting games ever made. While MK10 might remain the favourite due to mechanics, MK11 has the most interesting story in the series.

An excellent follow-up to Shadow of Mordor, Shadow of War expands on the original game in every way and in every direction, culminating in a fun and addictive experience.

A revenge story instead of the rags-to-slightly-better-rags stories of the previous games, Mafia 3 lets you play the Black American Lincoln Clay in an excellent rendition of 1960s New Orleans.

Assassin's Creed: Hogwarts, this was made with lots of love and attention to detail, but the open world is a pretty basic Ubi-esque checklist of world and activity design. Terrible, but great.

Call of the Sea is a deeply beautiful game with sky-high production values, an engaging narrative, and a captivating premise. It's clear that this was made with an abundance of love and care.

A classic of the hack-and-slash genre, Bloodrayne is a fantastic romp through an alt-history WWII in which you play half-vampire, full-badass Rayne in one of Laura Bailey's first voice-acting roles.

A comprehensive remake of the original Half Life, there are some design features that show their age (notably the shooting mechanics) but the level design and world-building throughout are top-notch.

Mad Max is thus far the best video game interpretation of the hugely popular film series and features a near-future Earth left desolate by human civilization and a brutal journey of survival and the futility of hope in a world gone mad.

Doom (2016) is brutal, white-knuckle action that only rewards you with time to breathe once you've slaughtered the legion of demons between you and your latest objective. I loved every minute of it.