Velocity 2X Review

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By: Omar (@siegarettes)
Second Opinion by RJ (@suppadoopa)

  • Velocity 2X
  • Developer - Futurlab
  • Publisher - Futurlab
  • PlayStation Vita & PlayStation 4 (reviewed on the Vita)
  • Rating - E10

There’s a certain sense of a remix culture taking place in the games space. AAA titles have become a parade of sub-systems and mini-games in polished containers. A simple look at the last generation of games will see a whole lot of derivative titles that can be described as “game X meets game Y” as popular games become continually borrowed from. In another space are the independent developers, remixing genres and styles from titles past to create new takes on them. Velocity 2X would be one of these. The first Velocity mixed the genre up by introducing a short range teleport, changing the focus from shooting to navigation and puzzles. 2X builds on that, introducing sidescrolling sections and story segments.

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Hyperdemension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 Review

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By RJ (@rga_02)

  • Hyperdemension Neptunia Re;Birth 1
  • Developer - Compile Heart
  • Publisher - Idea Factory
  • PlayStation Vita
  • Rating - T

Remember those days back in elementary school? Where you would defend your favorite multinational corporation to the death? Be it either Nintendo, Sony or SEGA you would defend one of those entities like it was your newborn child. Now it’s 2014 and here you are in your twenties. Still bickering at one another about consoles….but instead of throwing generic schoolyard insults at each other, you’re a little girl who on a mission in the magical land of Gamindustri.

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Let’s get transgressive.

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By: Omar (@siegarettes)

Sometimes you don’t want the saccharine candy sweetness of modern music, or the polish of AAA videogames, filed so smoothly no edge is showing. Sometimes you need something more immediate, something raw. With that I bring you this week’s recommendations: psychedelic noise rock recorded in the pit of gods’ stomachs and some fuck you punk deathmatch. 

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DYNASTY WARRIORS: GUNDAM REBORN REVIEW

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By: RJ (@rga_02)

  • Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn
  • Developer - Omega Force
  • Publisher - Bandai Namco
  • PlayStation 3
  • Rating - T

Char is one person my cousin aspires to be. I mean, who doesn’t want to grow up to ride a mech around space and drop an asteroid on a planet? I know I did…..sans the dropping the asteroid part. Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn helps me fulfill my long lived dream of riding a mech in space. Combine that with the tried and true formula of Temco Koei’s Musou franchise, and you have a match made in heaven.

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Always Sometimes Monsters Review

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By Omar (@siegarettes)

  • Always Sometimes Monsters
  • Developer - Vagabond Dog
  • Publisher - Devolver Digital
  • PC (Direct from Developer, Steam)
  • Rating - N/A

I made a decision and a man died. I didn’t have to. I knew that it might happen before I made it, I had the chance to back out but I still went ahead. I did it because I was selfish, because I wanted to get to where I needed to be faster, not because it was the only way. I hovered over the “LOAD GAME” option and realized that I couldn’t do it. It wasn’t fair. I knew what could happen, and now I needed to live with it. 

This was the moment that defined my experience in Vagabond Dog’s Always Sometimes Monsters. Monsters is largely built around giving you choices void of “correct” choices. Even so, in this instance I was wrong. My moral compass told me I had betrayed the vague sense of values I’d lived by. I deserved to live with the consequences. Even then, the game never came out to punish me for it. Somehow, that made it worse.

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Hyperdemension Neptunia Re;Birth first impressions

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By: RJ (@rga_02)

I’ve always been neutral to the Neptunia series. I neither hate it or love it. Prior to this I’ve only dabbled with Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory & Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection and I enjoyed my time with those two titles to an extent. I know what to expect and not to expect out of this franchise. This series is geared towards a niche audience. An audience who loves to devour anime and video game tropes like there’s no tomorrow. Not everyone will appreciate or even understand that. But beneath all that unfamiliarity, there might something special with the Neptunia series that can resonate beyond that niche group of people.

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