Whether you’ve played any of the series’ entries, if you’re a fan of games even on a surface level, it’s highly likely you’ve heard of the Metal Gear series. A series that is still highly regarded all these years after it’s debut, primarily due to the way it helped define the stealth-action genre and how it showed that games could … Read More
With it being the biggest media franchise in the world, we’ve seen our fair share of spin off Pokemon games. Most of them pretty unique and interesting, but none as much as Detective Pikachu that launched on the 3DS back in 2016. It starred the iconic yellow mouse everyone knows but this time around he donned a cute little detective … Read More
Since it’s first entry debuted back in the early days of the PS3/X360 era, the Assassin’s Creed series has become a household franchise and a series we can pretty consistently seegrow every couple of years. While the series has spanned over 30 games so far if including the mainline entries and spin-off titles, not every entry has been consistently great … Read More
It’s no secret that I love a good JRPG. I’ve reviewed plenty right here on the site, and some of my favourites come from a little known series called Dragon Quest. It’s a series that’s been around for close to 40 years now so I hope that last sentence read as a joke. But seriously, if you haven’t picked up … Read More
Very few franchises have the success and the ability to have their games span over multiple decades. It’s surprising of those that do, quite a few are from the fighting genre. But growing up, my go-to fighter was always Mortal Kombat. Sure, I was playing the game at a younger age than I probably should have been, but it’s made … Read More
Role Playing Games have seen a massive increase in numbers, especially in the last couple of gaming generations. You don’t have to look far to see some publishers and developers throwing out the term, interjecting RPG elements into games that otherwise feature no role playing mechanics, just to sell monetised components and capitalise on the RPG craze. Although when we … Read More
The Final Fantasy series is one of gaming’s most long running series and up to this point has already spanned numerous generations and is undoubtedly a bigger franchise right now than its ever been. Amongst the franchises many entries, it’s widely accepted that Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most popular and is definitely the deepest explored, with that … Read More
When I originally previewed Immortals of Aveum, it was a game that really grabbed my interest primarily due to the calibre of the developers bringing it to life, but also because of its very apparent and deep world building and it’s incredibly flashy visuals. I was very curious at the time about how the game would actually play and if … Read More
In the current gaming landscape, FromSoftware are very much a household name, known very much for their critically acclaimed Dark Souls series as well as last year’s Game of the Year winning title Elden Ring. But before they were well known for their triumphs for what is now widely referred to as the SoulsBorne genre, they were known in more … Read More
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been playing games. And a series that’s been a long time staple in my gaming journey is the Mortal Kombat franchise. Admittedly, I’ve been playing them from an age where I was certainly too young to be playing them, but it’s one of my earliest gaming memories and it continues to be … Read More