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Yakuza 5’s dogged earnestness and tender moments ultimately won me over.
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A simple calculus: why would I play a mediocre third-person action-adventure game whose progenitor supports intensely bigoted causes when I can play dozens, hundreds of other things that make me happier and aren’t actively contributing to harm?
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Content warning for discussions of mental health, suicide Goodbye World, by Yo Fujii, first caught my attention during last year’s Day of the Devs press conference. It was one of a handful of games shown off during the conference’s small…
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In a rare bit of candor, a major digital culture website has deigned to pull back the curtain a little bit and show us in the audience the reasoning behind why it writes so many reviews that seem to score…
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I’ll tell you what wasn’t on anyone’s radar: a colorful, cartoonish Shinji Mikami-produced rhythm action game set to a soundtrack of Nine Inch Nails, Number Girl and The Black Keys with obscenely high production and animation values and some really…
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Lost Judgment loses its way by the end of its whodunit mystery, while the Kaito Files burns just a bit too bright for a story relegated to the main game’s DLC.
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It’s good, but maybe not essential.
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Simultaneously a meditation on our own climate future, the deleterious labor we do to maintain society as it is, and a vision of hopefully better things to come, Waste Eater was a surprising experience.
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Navigate the harsh maze of state control in this incredibly affective game from the makers of The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place.
No Escape
Digital Culture and its Discontents