No sense beating around the bush—I’m shutting down this website and moving on to do other things. I’ve been weighing moving on since December 2019 when some family emergency stuff made running a site like this seem kind of small, but I’m too stubborn for my own good. It’s the sunk cost fallacy; once you …
Final Fantasy VIII has always been an odd game to try and review. Despite being massively popular when it first released, it later became a popular target for criticism (some of which is rightly deserved). It’s also been one of my favorite games since I first played it in the mid-2000s. For something like 8-9 …
I was asked to review OneShot by someone a while ago, and since I already owned it and all of my key requests had fallen through, I decided to give it a spin. There’s no denying that this is a weird game, pairing the meta-story stuff of games like Undertale (which an early free version …
Right after I reviewed the Ace Attorney Trilogy, I found myself hungry for more Phoenix Wright goodness. I remembered playing through the next game, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, in the distant past, but that’s always where I would stop playing through the series. For whatever reason, Apollo Justice has always been a tire-destroying pothole on …
It’s been two years since I first got my hands on Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG. Back then, the adventure began in the game’s largest area and it was difficult to tell what direction the story was going to go in, but the underlying promise was immediately apparent and I rightfully compared Encased to the …
Lake is a peaceful, relaxing game where you drive around delivering mail in the Oregon town of Providence Oaks in 1986. It’s basically the amalgamation of Endless Ocean and Life is Strange (sans superpowers or villains), a kind of remarkable normalcy that’s comfortable to settle into now that the concept of “normal” no longer exists …
My original plan for the end of August 2021 was to cover the original Psychonauts, then jump into the sequel armed with the knowledge required to meaningfully compare/contrast. I didn’t expect to loathe Psychonauts 1 too much to finish it. Little glimmers of potential would sometimes shine through its remarkably clumsy design, though, suggesting a …
I hated the original Psychonauts when I played through a large part of it for the first time a week or so ago. The humor was inconsistent, the visuals were largely bland, the story spent too much time treading water and doing nothing with its characters, and the gameplay was terrible beyond description. I had …
A couple of days ago, I received an email announcing the release of Speed Limit‘s “Penny & Dime” update and a 50% off sale. I’ve had almost zero free time this past week, but I greatly enjoyed Speed Limit, and it felt only fair that I reinstalled it and figured out what’s been added post-release …
Welcome to yet another entry in the long-running, largely inexplicable series that is “that guy from killapenguin.com hates everything that is or ever was popular.” Of course, that’s not even remotely true, and there are plenty of old and new games that I’ve really liked, but I’ve given only one game a score higher than …