Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways Review
If you haven’t gotten around to playing this year’s remake of Resident Evil 4 (hereafter called REmake 4 to avoid confusion) you’ve been missing out. Fortunately, Capcom has put out some DLC to remind you of the game’s existence, and just before award season too! How thoughtful of them. The DLC covers the Resident Evil 4 bonus campaign Separate Ways, an Ada-focused narrative that tries to bridge some of the gaps in the RE4 story and theoretically sets events in motion for Resident Evil 5. Fun fact for everyone that didn’t play the original: this is actually the second Ada “side story” in Resident Evil 4, with the first being “Assignment Ada” that was included originally on the GameCube release. Everyone basically ignored it after Separate Ways was included on the PS2 and all subsequent releases of RE4 but still, it does exist! Separate Ways has the exact same gameplay…
Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon Review
I’ve always liked mechs but I’ve never been able to get into their games. My brain is obsessed with min/maxing to an almost painful degree, so most of the time I just get overwhelmed by opening the mech builder screen in these games and seeing “this generator gives you a +5% energy increase for a -3.5% speed penalty when going around corners on Wednesdays.” That being said, since I am a modern From Software fan now and it’s been a long time since they put out an Armored Core game, I thought I’d try the genre out again. The above is just a disclaimer that I’ve never put much time, if any, into the previous Armored Core titles, so when I attribute long-standing Armored Core traditions to other games it’s entirely due to ignorance rather than forgetfulness. The main thing that stuck with me as I was playing Armored Core…
Baldur’s Gate 3 Review
Well here we are after five weeks and 127 hours: Baldur’s Gate 3. I don’t have an intro other than a promise there won’t be any real spoilers and I will be occasionally and perhaps unfairly picking on other developers like Bioware and Bethesda in here. Baldur’s Gate 3 is a CRPG which, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, is a turn-based RPG generally viewed from an isometric or top-down perspective, though if you’re using a controller in Baldur’s Gate 3 you’ll have a more Bioware-style third person camera. You play as one of several preset characters or a custom one (with the preset characters coming along as party members) in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dragons. Regardless of your character choices you’ll end up captured by a marauding mind flayer (squid-faced psionic monsters) airship and infected with a parasite that threatens to turn you into a mind…