I can't begin to tell you how much I've had just playing through a solid, well made and paced platformer. Sure, it's only three or four hours, but those hours are phenomenal.
It's a perfect excuse both to bask in some good ol' PlayStation nostalgia and talk about old gaming...
Not that we've spent confronting eldritch and other horrors out to kill us that it's about time we deserve some time in peace. And that's why I've chosen to play this little game: Astro's Playroom. It comes pre-installed on every PS5, ostensible as a tech demo for the features on the new...
Obviously, this year has been defined by the outbreak of a deadly disease which keeps many of us quarantined and many more terrified that we're going to kill our loved ones by going to work and contracting something that'll spread to them.
So what better way to deal with our fears than by facing...
It is often lamented that the state of the game industry at large tends to crowd out the kind of low-budget, mid-tier platformers that were commonplace in the PlayStation 1 era. For every Crash Bandicoot or Spyro the Dragon, there was a Jersey Devil or some other such game that, while not the...
(Spoiler Alert for the entire Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time trilogy)And so we have reached the end of this little series. The Two Thrones, released in 2005, had a major problem from the get go. While most fans of the franchise vastly preferred The Sands of Time, there was enough of a positive...
Last week, I began a series of retrospectives on the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time trilogy. Starting with the original Sands of Time, I mostly praised the game for the many, many things it did correctly, including its gameplay, narrative, and setting. However, despite the great reception of the...
(This article is spoiler-free, for those of you who, like myself until recently, have yet to play a game from 10 years ago.)As a child gamer, I was told of the greatness of the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time trilogy. Despite the praise, I had never played the games because I had somehow convinced...