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Mini Review Road 96: Mile 0 (PS5) - A Tonal Nightmare with Some Interesting Moments
Talk about whiplash
Road 96, the procedural hitchhiking game, was a title with an interesting presentation and a slew of good ideas. Developer DigixArt took that great foundation and spun things off into Road 96: Mile 0, a narrative-focused prequel that strips away the procedural elements, replacing them with rhythm gameplay. The world presented in...
News Embark on a Surreal Adventure in Kona II: Brume, Coming to PS5, PS4 in 2023
Seek the truth in the frozen north
Kona II: Brume is a chilly, otherworldy narrative adventure in which you play a Canadian detective in the 1970s investigating a surreal disturbance in Northern Québec. We got a brief, tone-setting teaser announcement along with the news that the title will be coming to PS5 and PS4 in 2023. An otherworldly mist...
Mini Review Road 96 (PS5) - Political Trek Gets Our Vote
My way or the highway
At the height of an intense, fictional presidential election, Road 96 is about both escape and discovery. Procedurally generated scenarios dictate your objective to leave the country by crossing its northern border, but the characters you meet along the way make those journeys fruitful ones. While repetition does start to creep...
News Cooking Mama: Cookstar Suddenly Available on US PlayStation Store
Okay then
Man, remember the whole Cooking Mama: Cookstar saga? If you don't, here's the short version. Last year, the latest instalment in the popular cookery series was announced and released on Nintendo Switch, but was quickly pulled from sale due to a dispute between the developer and publisher. It then came to light that the studio had been...
Review Illusion: A Tale of the Mind (PS4)
Lobotomy
Some games, no matter how much work the devs put into them, just never come together. While some elements could be great, the overall experience just doesn’t click in any meaningful way. Illusion: A Tale of the Mind, from Canadian dev Frima, is a title that suffers from this. While its virtual reality title Fated: The Silent Oath is one...
