Reviews - Game Or Die (Page 5)

Miles & Kilo (2017)

A young boy and his dog, is there nothing more pure in gaming than a story of a kid and his faithful companion? Runner games are usually not my favorite genre, and mostly because the majority of them are fairly shallow and seem to be destined for the mobile free

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Carrion (2020)

Carrion, which is defined as “Dead or putrefying flesh” is a game about exactly that… well, kinda. The character you actually play as, is a massive monster with tendrils and many mouths. It’s immediately interesting in the way it looks and moves. It is a dripping bloody mass of

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Sludge Life (2020)

Gaming is so vast now, that there is basically a genre or type of game for pretty much anything and everything now. Sludge Life is a game that can be described as “Grimmy” and that fits the actual style extremely well. Taking pieces of those hazy smoggy summer days in

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SuperHot: Mind, Control, Delete (2020)

Let’s get this out of the way first, Mind, Control, Delete is basically SuperHot 2, it is more SuperHot with a bit of a twist on it. Team SuperHot announced and threw Mind Control Delete into Early Access back in 2017 and I did what I normally do with

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Devolverland Expo (2020)

E3 never came this year, which is a bummer, I’ve gone through my thoughts on this in a separate article and also multiple times on the podcast, so I won’t be going into that here. Publisher Devolver Digital, has a reputation for doing something weird and strange the

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SkaterXL (2020)

SkaterXL is barely a game. As someone who purchased it long ago in early access at $10 on sale, and seeing the price jump to $40 on release date, it came with the hope that it would have flourished into the next Skate or Tony Hawk franchise, I was sorely

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Assemble With Care (2020)

Games that can be completed in a single sitting are usually fairly pretty personal stories, and you can get the sense that Assemble With Care is one of those types. While it is a very sweet story of a repair woman who is alone in a new small village, you

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Old Gods Rising (2020)

Over the last few years, there has been a genre defined by the main type of mechanic in the game, which is movement, or exploring… more commonly referred to as walking. This type of game arose in popularity due to games like Gone Home, or Dear Esther. These games are

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Gato Roboto (2019)

Metroid was never really appealing to me, I tried to get into the series so many times, and I usually give up an hour or two in. One of the reasons is because of the backtracking, and also the unenjoyable atmosphere of it. So when I loaded up Gato Roboto

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Minecraft Dungeons (2020)

I never have played more than about an hour or two of a dungeon crawler… I know, I know… but they never interested me, and the control scheme of just clicking on the area you want to go to was always off putting to me. Minecraft Dungeons serves as a

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (2001)

The first time I saw Tony Hawk 3, it was the original playstation version, which didn’t look all that impressive, but a few months later I owned a Playstation 2 and got my hands on what a lot of people consider the best in the series… and I don’

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Deliver Us The Moon (2018)

What should have been a small game that was to pass some time became so much more to me in the course of playing it. Deliver Us the Moon is a story about how the Earth receives energy from harvested resources on the moon. Suddenly and without warning, that power

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x (2001)

I remember when Tony Hawk 2 came out. I got it on the playstation, and was blown away by it, adding so many more new levels, new skaters, and the addition of the Manual, linking combos together in a much more satisfying way. I tried going back to the playstation

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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (2004)

Warrior Within, the second in the newly founded “Modern” Prince of Persia series, is a direct sequel to the fantastic reboot The Sands of Time. The Prince, now troubled by releasing the Sands of Time in the first game has become war torn, grizzled and all around more unpleasant as

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Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (2005)

Coming to The Two Thrones 15 years later and finally getting a chance to see what all the fuss was about, well I can honestly say this is the best Prince of Persia game they made. It really has everything you’d want, not just from a Prince of Persia

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003)

It’s been over 17 years since I played Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. In the years since, I’ve always had fond memories of it and it was always a good example of gameplay that was not just fun, but also exciting. Blending exploration, traversal, combat and

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Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018)

Editor’s Note: There is an additional edit at the bottom of the original review, after I finished the game. I am writing this without finishing the game… because I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever finish this game. It is such a love letter to Ubisoft of

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Streets Of Rage 4 (2020)

Over twenty five years later, we finally have a fourth game in the Streets of Rage series, and in one of those rare occasions, the game turned out absolutely fantastic. The brawler genre has been lacking lately, especially in the “retro reboot” department. And when Streets of Rage 4 was

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Super Mario 64 - PC Port/120 Stars (2020)

There have been many “Gamer Bucket Lists” people have created over the years, and I’ve read a ton of them. One common checklist item is getting all 120 Stars in Super Mario 64. Something I sadly never have done. I always lost track at the end after getting all

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Hollow Knight (2017)

Map based exploration and platforming games instantly make me not want to play them, maybe because of it’s more common title, Metroidvania. Maybe it’s because I absolutely despise backtracking in games, and it makes the game have an artificial buffer of time added to it that serves no

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Resident Evil 3: REmake (2020)

Hot on the heels of last year’s amazing remake of Resident Evil 2, in Capcom’s own brand new RE Engine, they went ahead and remade the next game in the series, Resident Evil 3. As one who never really has liked the Resident Evil series, and only game

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Black Mesa (2020)

Half-Life has always been a blind spot in my gaming record. I remember when it came out and my friend Andrew loving it, I remember bits and pieces of it when I would go over his house and watch him play it. I wanted to get into it so badly

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Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2020)

Ori and the Will of the Wisps does what all good sequels do and takes everything I loved about The Blind Forest, and changes just enough to make it still feel familiar, while changing it up quite a bit. With this still being my initial foray into Metroidvania style games,

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A Short Hike (2019)

You play as Claire, a young Penguin who has been taken by her Aunt May to a vacation weekend on a small island. The island's main tourist spot is at the very top called “Hawk Peak”. Since there is no cell phone service on the island except for the top

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Ori and the Blind Forest (2015)

A couple years after Ori came out, I finally loaded it up and got about 20 minutes into it. Then I just dropped it. Why? I honestly don’t know. Maybe because back in 2017 I didn’t really like Metroidvanias that much, maybe because I wasn’t really in