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Medievil Review

  Sir Daniel Fortesque, the greatest hero Gallowmere has ever known* A true standout on the original Playstation. Medievil is a lighthearted gothic adventure starring the infamous, and still delightfully well remembered, Sir Daniel Fortesque. A skeleton who's charming, jawless smile is as iconic to the console as Crash Bandicoots goofy dances or Spyro's flightless romps. Medievil itself is not a particularly complex game, in fact on the base level it's extremely straightforward. You play as the resurrected Daniel in his quest to defeat the evil wizard Zarok, saving the land of Gallowmere from an endless, haunting night. It fits very much in the role of hack and slash platformer. Giving you a wide array of fun to use, if samey weapons to beat up all the zombies, ghouls, ghosts, and/or goblins that may stand in your way. Dan himself has some heft to his movements, as well as a noticeable turning circle and momentum that reminds me of a slightly less fluid Mario 64. But in thi...

Orcs Must Die 3 Review

  I'm tired of being afraid. I have feelings world! For Traps, and Tower Defense! A whole 10 years and a failed MOBA later. The indie hit tower defense Orcs Must Die finally got another sequel. A co-op venture featuring some of the younger war mages trained by our old protagonists to defense their realm from the neverending army of orcs... Not that story matters, I mean there's a villain and protagonists but this is a goofy game about flinging orcs into a meat grinder. It's like going to Dynasty Warriors for story, maybe it's there but it's the wrong place. Gameplay for Orcs Must Die is now pretty standard for action tower defense, though it gets some slack for that given the original was an early entry in the shooter style. You defend a variety of keeps using traps on the walls, ceilings, and floors. Featuring physics based flinging, multiple damage types, mild mazing, slowdowns, hypnosis, aoe, summons, sappers, runners, tanks, pilotable war machines and- well you ...

Blood Bowl 2 "Review"

  The fans are looking hungry Blood Bowl is a game about a bunch of fantasy races who just accept injury and death as making life more exciting. Murdering the shit out of each other with some vain scoring system thrown in, so the elves don't get all uppity about murder for murders sake. Really it's all about beating the everloving shit out of the enemy team and having a fun time doing it. Huh, gameplay, reviews, design? What are you on about Jim. I just told the fans at home everything they need to know about the sport. So lets dive right in, I heard the dwarves brought a steamroller to this match, should be exciting.