#Review
#Review
By: RJ (@rga_02)
The future of K-Pop group Girls Generation is bleak with Tiffany, Sooyoung and Seohyun not renewing their contracts last October. For the time being the group is stuck in limbo, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate their last album.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
There seems to be another resurgence on all-in-one devices gaming devices lately. Go to your local store and you will see miniature arcade cabinets that contain five or so games. If you happen to find those a tad bit cumbersome and want something in the shape of a Game Boy you are in luck. The company dreamGEAR came out with a cute little device called the Go Gamer Portable 220. Is it worth your purchase though?
by Amr (@siegarettes)
Sometimes a game can get by on a little bit of charm and simple fun. Dig Dog just about does. It’s a small game from Rusty Moyher and Matt Grimm, who brought us the excellent Retro Game Crunch and Astro Duel. Both of those felt like strong executions on existing concepts, backed by a lot of charm.
by Amr (@siegarettes)
A flashy little rogue-like, Xenon Valkyrie+ feels equal parts cozy and staid. Its art is well detailed, and there’s a number of familiar systems, with RPG stats to level up, new items to unlock, and the usual suite of progression that’s now common for the genre.
Innerspace is beautiful. Soaked in a palette of aqua, burnt sienna, gold and purple, Innerspace feels like a pastel filtered rendition of a sci-fi novel cover. Monuments of a past civilization reach across its landscapes, and waves crash across bodies of water that are both the ocean and the sky. There is no up here–earth and sea wrap around to create a world with no end. There’s no boundaries to reach, only deeper spaces to explore. And here is where both its wonders and frustrations begin.
A storm of pulsing beats and raucous feedback, Rym9000’s psychedelic visage obfuscates what is otherwise a straightforward shooter. Its draw is in the aesthetic exercise. Its unrestrained use of color creates an intense energy that never lets up, and the soundtrack continues that high. The waves of enemies come in familiar patterns, smartly placed to provide a steady rhythm. Each explosion lets off another burst of blown out sound and feedback to complement that rhythm. All of this is covered in severe visual artifacts, distorting the view and giving Rym9000 the look of an image file trying to constantly recover its data from corruption.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
There is a line from my favorite iDOLM@STER song – Jibun REST@RT – that goes, “May this moment when everything is rewarded never end,” and that line has never been so applicable to the series than the latest entry, Stella Stage.
