I’ve put more hours into fighting games than I’d ever admit in a public setting. The kind of hours where you start recognizing frame traps in your sleep and arguing with yourself about whether a jab was actually +2 or just felt like it. So when SEGA and RGG Studio started pulling the curtain back…
The fighting game scene has been loud lately, but not in a generic hype-train way. More like that chaotic arcade energy where someone just slammed a coin into the cabinet and the whole room turns around. That’s exactly what happened after the reveals of Virtua Fighter Crossroads, the first mainline entry in the Virtua Fighter…
Having played a wide range of survival horror and tactical shooters, I can usually tell pretty quickly when a game is trying to be “hardcore” just for effect and when it actually builds its systems around that difficulty. Silver Pines belongs to the second group more often than not, and its manual reload system is…
