Review

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8: Final Chapter Prologue, like all Kingdom Hearts games for the past decade and a half, prominently features Utada Hikaru’s pop song ‘Simple and Clean’. Now more than ever, it’s clear that this theme song is not just catchy as hell, it’s also some kind of ongoing …

Westworld has traditionally been a show about questions. Who is Arnold? Is it really ok for humans to treat the Hosts like they do? What’s Ford’s game? Every episode to date has layered question upon question, and for every answer we’ve had, another couple of mysteries seemed to spring up …

Is Makoto Shinkai ‘the new Miyazaki’? Comparisons to Studio Ghibli’s animation master accompanied Shinkai’s previous films: lustrous visions such as Voices of a Distant Star (2003) and The Garden of Words (2013), but Shinkai emerges as his own man with this deeply affecting, richly imagined and lushly gorgeous fantasy. A …

It seems Rick and co need a good long rest to recover from the events of The Walking Dead premiere (opens in new tab) because once again, they’re nowhere to be seen in episode 3, The Cell. Instead we travel into Negan’s world, find out a bit more about the …

“I can make that feeling go away if you like,” Bernard tells Dolores as the fourth episode of Westworld, Dissonance Theory, opens. She recounts her pain at the death of her family and in a truly human moment, asks: “Why would I want that? It’s all I’ve got.”  (Cognitive) Dissonance …

 Fine, I admit it: I’ve been known to show off my Destiny (opens in new tab) Hunter to friends in the pub. I have a folder of pictures of her halfway up Felwinter Peak on Facebook, looking all cloaky and cool. But why does this trivia matter except to put …

“The Guests enjoy power, they cannot indulge it in the outside world so they come here. As for the Hosts, the least we can do is make them forget,” Anthony Hopkins’ Dr Ford explains in the best scene of episode 3 of Westworld. It’s a statement that resonates throughout The …

You know that kid at school who seemed disruptive and lazy, but then a few years later it turned out that s/he was actually some kind of genius, and just wasn’t being well-served by the comparative mundanity of the classes on offer? And was actually capable of brilliant things, given …

Many fans argue that it’s impossible to have a five-star wrestling match; the same could be said of a five-star wrestling game. That’s partly because they want an experience which feels like wrestling, but plays like a competitive fighter – a false hope given that in reality combatants work to …

Ask a Nintendo fan about what makes their games so great and the answer is often “innovation”. And yet, ask a Paper Mario fan what they want from the latest installment, and they’re likely to demand Nintendo JUST MAKES ANOTHER BLOODY THOUSAND YEAR DOOR OH MY GOD STOP TRYING NEW …