Onimusha: Way of the Sword is the kind of action game that looks familiar for the first few hours and then starts punishing you for playing it like everything else. Yes, there are swords, dodges, parries and demons everywhere, but the combat is built around much more than simply learning attack patterns. One of the…
There are plenty of dark fantasy RPGs that promise brutal combat, but The Blood of Dawnwalker takes a noticeably different approach. After playing games built around parries, stamina management, directional attacks, and supernatural abilities, I went into Rebel Wolves’ RPG expecting something familiar. It isn’t. The first thing that stood out to me is how…
Divinum is the kind of game that makes you question your controller for the first few hours. Not because the controls are bad, but because the game expects a level of discipline that most Metroidvanias never demand. After spending plenty of time with action games, character-action titles, and difficult 2D adventures, I thought I knew…
If you came into Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy expecting another slow-burn survival experience built around hiding in tall grass, sneaking past soldiers, and desperately escaping rats, the combat system is going to catch you off guard. This time, Sophia is not Amicia. She is faster, more aggressive, better equipped, and—most importantly—actually capable of standing…
After spending a lot of time with action-adventure games that try to mix stealth with melee combat, I was genuinely curious about how Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy would handle the transition. The previous A Plague Tale games trained players to think defensively. Amicia survived by staying out of trouble, using her sling, alchemy, distractions,…
There is something I really like about 1666: Amsterdam: it does not treat magic as a simple collection of flashy attacks that you spam whenever an enemy appears. The witchcraft system is tied into almost everything Noa does. Exploration, stealth, combat, resource management, investigation, and even the game’s day-and-night structure all feed into it. And…
After playing a ridiculous number of movement shooters, I’ve developed a pretty good idea of what makes one feel great and what makes another feel like a collection of flashy mechanics looking for a game to live inside. CICADAMATA falls firmly into the first category. It is fast, strange, deliberately minimalistic, and much more interested…
I’ve spent more hours in Where Winds Meet than I’m willing to admit publicly. What started as a “let’s try this new wuxia RPG for a weekend” turned into late-night boss attempts, experimenting with weird weapon combinations, and hunting down hidden oddities across half of ancient China. The biggest mistake I see new players make…
I honestly never expected to write a sentence like this, but here we are. GAME FREAK, the studio almost everyone associates with Pokémon, has thrown away its comfort zone and created something that looks brutal, stylish, and surprisingly ambitious. Beast of Reincarnation isn’t trying to imitate another action RPG—it feels like it’s determined to prove…
When I first jumped into DragonSword: Awakening, I made the same mistake I make in almost every new action RPG—I tried to overpower everything with pure damage. Bigger numbers, stronger weapons, faster combos… that had to be the answer, right? It wasn’t. After dozens of hours fighting elite enemies, clearing multiplayer rifts, and experimenting with…
