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i there! The name is Barge, but you can call me Adam. I come from the New Forest, which means I was pretty cut off from civilisation as a child, so the options were go outside or stay in the dark and play video games all day… no points for guessing which one I opted for. My love for games grew from Nintendo classics like Pokemon, Zelda and Mario and grew much deeper when I was a teenager and I fell in love with games like Beyond Good & Evil and Knight of the Old Republic. These days I play all variety of games but I do have a particular love of stealth games. I tend to look at a game as a whole piece of media, I like to think about how the pieces interlink and how the experience is developed by singular elements of a game building on top of each other. This mise en scène approach to reviewing comes from by background in theatre which also affords me a strong sense of good acting and dramatization in video games.

Ride 2 Review

When you boot up Ride 2 you are immediately greeted with a sultry voice explaining to you that this is a game made for people who love bikes. A proud people who I can confidently say I have nothing to…

MEIQ: LABYRINTH OF DEATH Review

Mei Q is a game that needed a bit more. In pretty much every category I can think of, it needed just a little more. It needed more exploration of its setting, it needed more fully realised characters, it needed…

UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late Review

Once your eyes and brain have stopped spinning in your skull from the word jumble that ithat title, you can start playing Under Night In-Birth. Once you begin (and battle through more abuse of the English language) you’ll end up…

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven Review

JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOJO! JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is a property I have some history with. I was first introduced waaaaay back when in 2000. My dad got me a second hand Dreamcast from a work friend of his and with it a butt…

Dead Island Definitive Edition Review

Dead Island can be safely described as the wheetabix of video games. Not because of it is a low fat and filling alternative to its more sugary competitors, but more because of how basic and safe it is at its…

Flat Kingdom Review

First impressions with Flat Kingdom were not great. The game felt like it was lacking a certain fluidity to its controls that left me wanting. The style didn’t immediately grab my attention either and it felt a bit sterile in…

Valkyria Chronicles Remastered Review

In an age of hyper realistic graphics I wonder how well a developer could tell a truly gripping tale that explores the brutality and savagery of the Second World War. Then I remember that against the tide of photo-perfect historical…

Valkyria Chronicles Remastered Preview

psIt’s all at once very easy and very hard to write up a preview for Valkyria Chronicles Remastered. Its very easy because this game is absolutely gorgeous and an absolute joy to play, but very difficult because there is so…

The Count Lucanor Review

What makes us scared? Fear is an evolutionary response meant to prolong our survival; because that rustling in the nearby bushes could be a hungry lion as much as it could be a harmless bunny rabbit. Fear initiates an adrenaline…

Good Robot Preview

Roguelike is a sub genre of games that has blown up in popularity in recent years. Success stories like FTL and Rogue Legacy brought a lot of attention to the style and the bandwagon is filling up. I wonder if…