Crimson Moon looks like the kind of action RPG that is going to punish you for every lazy decision. Developed by ProbablyMonsters, the game mixes brutal soulslike combat with gothic high-Renaissance visuals, heavy-metal attitude, and a progression system that refuses to shove players into traditional character classes. You play as a Nephilim, a human-angel hybrid…
If you’re looking at Crimson Moon and already know you’re going to spend a ridiculous number of hours hacking demons apart, there’s one decision you probably can’t avoid: Standard or Deluxe? Normally, this is the kind of pre-release question that makes me roll my eyes because “Deluxe Edition” often means a couple of shiny skins…
There are games you watch for months, and then there are games that suddenly make you check the calendar every five minutes because you just want to get your hands on them. Crimson Moon is firmly in the second category for me. ProbablyMonsters has been steadily building interest around this strange, brutal-looking action RPG, and…
If there is one thing Mortal Shell 2 gets absolutely right, it is the feeling that every new piece of gear might completely change the way you approach a fight. Cold Symmetry and Playstack have taken the brutal Soulslike foundation of the original and expanded it into something much larger, with an interconnected open world,…
Mortal Shell 2 surprised me in a way I did not expect. After spending years playing Soulslikes, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what Cold Symmetry would do with a sequel. I expected tougher bosses, nastier environments, and more complicated builds. What I did not expect was how much the Tarstone system…
There are two kinds of players in a Soulslike: the ones who happily walk through a fog gate with half their resources missing, and the ones who refuse to touch the next boss until every suspicious-looking corner of the map has been checked. I am absolutely the second type. And Mortal Shell 2 feels like…
Mortal Shell 2 is the kind of game that immediately tells you it does not care whether you have played every Soulslike ever made. I went into it expecting something familiar: slow stamina management, careful rolls, predictable openings, and the usual dance around an enemy while watching a green bar. Then the game took the…
If there is one thing Mortal Shell 2 gets right immediately, it is the feeling that Fallgrim is a place rather than a collection of levels. The original game was compact, brutal, and deliberately claustrophobic. Its sequel takes that foundation and stretches it into a much larger interconnected world filled with hidden routes, strange landmarks,…
When I first jumped into Mistfall Hunter, I expected another extraction game with swords instead of rifles. A couple dozen hours later, I realized I had been completely wrong. This game isn’t simply “Escape from Tarkov meets Dark Souls.” It’s far more methodical. Every expedition feels like a calculated gamble where one greedy decision can…
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…
