Talking to anyone about The Persistence is sure to almost always include comparisons to games like Resident Evil 7 and Dead Space, though it’s easy to see how these comparisons exist The Persistence is really doing something completely different. With Sci-Fi. Horror and Rogue-Like characteristics all rolled into one neat little package it’s hard to make any real direct comparisons to any of these games.
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit opens with a shot of a snow filled yard and a lonely house. As the opening bars of Sufjan Steven’s song Death With Dignity begin to play, you immediately get the feeling that even though you haven’t been here before – something is familiar. This is Life is Strange.
Like the previous seasons, Captain Spirit captures the essence of what makes a Life is Strange game unique and then takes that formula and makes it feel fresh again. While the marketing for the game has been a little misleading, make no mistake, this is the prologue to Life is Strange 2.
It takes a lot of balls to show a game three E3’s in a row and keep so much a secret. Each showing pulls back the curtain just a little bit more. This is a guy asking for our trust, and there is no reason not to give it. The Metal Gear series has pushed the medium forward in so many ways.
Killing Floor: Incursion is one of the most immersive games to date on Sony’s young VR platform. An impressive feet for a franchise that started as nothing more than a mod of Unreal Tournament over a decade ago. At first glance it looks like an easy game to pigeon hole, but the deeper you dive into Killing Floor: Incursion the more you find exactly how much is below the surface. The best way to describe the game is by starting off with the obvious – Resident Evil. Stopping there though wouldn’t do it justice at all. If it’s one part Resident Evil you could also say that Incursion is equal parts Unreal Tournament, Assassin’s Creed, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter all rolled into a nice and neat, functioning, VR package.
YIIK: A Post Modern RPG might possibly have the most interestingly strange plot since Oxenfree. Set in 1999, YIIK is a turn-based Japanese style RPG that sends you on a quest in search of a woman who mysteriously vanished from your presence while you were taking an unexpectedly life-changing ride on an elevator. Yeah. It’s a…
“To go it alone or to go with a partner? When you choose a partner, you have to have compromises and sacrifices, but it’s a price you pay. Do I want to follow my every whim and desire as I make my way through time and space? Absolutely. But at the end of the day,…
Goldeneye changed video games forever. With the game’s release on the Nintendo 64, the competitive multiplayer first person shooter was born. Rare gave us the granddaddy of them all when they released this gem back in 1997. Like any grandfather, Goldeneye would go on to have multiple children and grandchildren – two of which we’ll…
“Mother. Father. Always you wrestle inside me.” This quote from Terrence Malick’s 2011 film The Tree of Life came to mind quite often during my play through of InnerSpace.
Life is Strange isn’t it? Imagine that you’ve set up a studio to focus on story driven games and you’re shopping some ideas around to publishers. Then imagine that one of these publishers, oh say SquareEnix for instance, says “how would you like to work on a follow-up to Life is Strange instead?” Almost sounds…
