Tag Archives: Puzzle

Well that was unexpected Sometimes a change of pace is good. We may love a game to pixels and be happy to while away our days in its digital landscape, but once you start hitting 10, 20, 50-hour benchmarks, variety starts to become a necessity. It’s not hard to inject …

Portal has a few fundamental rules, and this is the big one: when you go in one portal, you come out the other. Doesn’t matter how far apart they are. But what happens when you smoosh two portals together like physics-defying bread and stick yourself in the middle like foolhardy …

I don’t get many chances to bust out the phrase mise-en-scene in a video game review without sounding like a pretentious asshole, so I’m going to take the opportunity here. It’s a French term used in film to encompass the art of environmental storytelling – and it’s something Grim Fandango …

Something’s very wrong here For as charming as the Pokmon universe might be, there’s no denying that some things simply don’t add up. There are weird inconsistencies, strange occurrences, and plot holes that haven’t been addressed. Hell, if anything, even more have surfaced: Pokmon X and Y randomly added the …

Starting Off Turning Over Animal Crossing: New Leaf marks the debut of another classic Nintendo franchise on a new handheld. With this new entry come more adorable animals to meet, more bugs to net, more fish to catch, and more memories to create. But what if you’re not sure how …

Despite housing the bulk of the holiday shopping season, December is typically the calm after the storm for game releases–by that point, most notable titles for the year are already out and fending for themselves on store shelves or their digital equivalents. But while the schedule is notably thinner, the …

Sony’s adorable Sackboy is back, bringing the “play, create, share” mantra into LittleBigPlanet PlayStation Vita, the fourth entry in the puzzle-platforming series. The intrepid, happy-go-lucky, walking ball of yarn fits in right at home on the new handheld; taking advantage of the PS Vita’s touch controls in a way that …

Recently Hideki Kamiya, exec at critical darling Platinum Games and director of Okami (opens in new tab), made news when talking about Sony’s PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale (opens in new tab). To quote Kamiya (opens in new tab), “It’s just a rip-off.” And as someone who has given over roughly …

All too often, we as gamers read the cries that too many videogames lack originality. However, even if a game has obvious inspirations, that doesn’t mean it deserves immediate rejection. On Nintendo handhelds worldwide, but particularly in Japan, Professor Layton’s anime-infused, Euro-centric approach to puzzle gaming is exceptionally popular, so …

Winner: Gravity Rush Read the Spelunky review. (opens in new tab) As the initial wave of PlayStation Vita launch titles came to a crawl, two eagerly anticipated games dropped in June. Metal Gear Solid HD Collection revisits not only the PS2 classics, but somewhat functions as a companion to the …