This is the third time I’m starting writing the Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon review anew. While I really want to call it “Polish Skyrim,” it is a lot more than that. It also does so many small things differently that its very easy to get lost in the weeds and balloon the review. But while it took me 67 hours to finish the game, it should take you a lot less to read my review. In short, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a good title already, but if you wait before buying it, it will get even better with patches.
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RuneQuest: Warlords preview in 7 screenshots!
Glorantha is one of those settings that gets the video game treatment infrequently, but it’s always a good time when it does. Everybody has fond memories of King of Dragon Pass. But what about a 3D game set in Glorantha? I played the RuneQuest: Warlords preview version to see how that would look like.
Continue reading “RuneQuest: Warlords preview in 7 screenshots!”Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Demo in 7 Screenshots!
I didn’t know the game was already out when I downloaded the demo. But I don’t own the full game yet, and I have completed the dang thing, so here’s a short review of Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon demo!
Continue reading “Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Demo in 7 Screenshots!”Dagger Directive demo in 7 screenshots!
“I have a confession to make,” I say youtuberishly. I have never really played Delta Force. I played some Land Warrior, the marketing vehicle for OICW, and I don’t think they got any good titles after that. But I believe that Dagger Directive demo is proof of a successor coming, one that doesn’t feature any extraction shooter features.
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Most games won’t tell you this, but military leadership isn’t about your APM and micro skills. In fact, it’s almost completely about other stuff. It’s about inspiring the weary, comforting the dying, sorting out supply and filling paperwork as well as deploying your troops in a sensible manner to defeat the challenge at hand. Burden of Command depicts this struggle in authentic and sensible detail. Take that, Garry Grigsby’s War in the East – nobody ever told me why that game needs to simulate the rate of fire for KV-1’s rearward machinegun.
Continue reading “Burden of Command review | Secret recipes for morale and such”卫国战争 The Patriotic War demo in 7 screenshots
I checked, the translation of the Chinese also means “The Patriotic War” – however, I’m scared and confused, so the title stays. But that doesn’t really matter, as the 卫国战争 The Patriotic War demo shows that we have a neat game to look forward to.
Continue reading “卫国战争 The Patriotic War demo in 7 screenshots”Field of Glory: Kingdoms review | Medieval Better War
It was around turn 360 that my spirit to go on gave out. By that time, I had expanded Scotland to cover, directly or via vassals, the entire British isles. The Kentish kingdom, the sole remnant on England, was holed up in Scandinavia, which I was invading for the third time. Scottish possessions in the Med counted Malta, the Balearics, North Italy, parts of Libya and Egypt. The ride there had been long and fairly fun. Thanks, Field of Glory: Kingdoms.
Continue reading “Field of Glory: Kingdoms review | Medieval Better War”Cyberpunk 2077 review | Blunt-edge
I finally did it! I finished Cyberpunk 2077 (and the Phantom Liberty DLC). I have slain the beast! And now, years and years after the game has been released, patched into playability, memed, dissected, discussed, and modded, I can present my review!
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The urge to not play any of the grog-affirming games that I have is so strong, I took a cutesy lil’ city-builder/puzzle to review. And that’s what Dawnfolk is! Half city-builder, half puzzle, all game!
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Sound of Freedom, the 2023 pedo-hunter movie for QAnon freaks? Bad. Sound of Silence, the 1964 Simon and Garfunkel song? Much better. Songs of Silence, the 2024 fantasy TBS/autobattler? Now we’re cooking with gas!
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