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Attack on Titan 2 Review – Big Naked Ladies…..

27Mar

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Attack on Titan 2 Review – Big Naked Ladies…..

There is a point when you start playing a new game when everything falls into place and you accept whatever powers, abilities or back story your character has as your new reality. With Attack on Titan 2 that moment came when I found myself tethered to a 50 foot tall naked giant woman, angrily swinging blades that wouldn’t look out of place in a piece of industrial machinery. Full disclosure here, I haven’t played the original game, or seen the Anime or read the Manga. I know what these things are and can appreciate them for their style and artwork, but I honestly didn’t know what this was all about until I started playing Attack on Titan 2. The game does a very good job of bringing you up to speed on what has happened. Attack on Titan 2 is made by Koei Tecmo and is released on March 20...

The Council, Episode 1 Review – How To Make Friends and Influence People

15Mar

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The Council, Episode 1 Review – How To Make Friends and Influence People

The Council is a wonderful episodic game like no other I’ve played, at least not for a long time. It’s brought to us by Big Bad Wolf Studios who developed the game, Focus Home Interactive who published it and with some help from Cyanide Studio also. The Council is available on PS4, Xone and PC so, you shouldn’t have too much of an excuse not to buy it but, of course, let me tell you why you should. Gameplay The Council is an adventure game that tells the story of Louis de Richet’s search for his missing mother, the leader of a secret society called the Golden Order. It’s 1793 so everyone talks like they actually have an education and wear very tight garments (No pants hanging around the buttocks here, oh no ) Louis’s search brings him to the private and grand island of Lord Mortimer wher...

The Final Station Switch Review – All Aboard!

14Mar

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The Final Station Switch Review – All Aboard!

The Final Station is a single player side-scrolling shooter with train simulator and exploration elements. It was developed by Do My Best Games and published by tinyBuild. It was released in August 30, 2016 for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Xbox One, and September 2, 2016 for PlayStation 4 but, now we have it for the Nintendo Switch so let’s see how it fairs out on the must-have device at the moment, shall we? Gameplay A 2D shooter/survival horror experience, The Final Station has you play a train driver on a journey from being a “mundane conductor” to “zombie apocalypse destroyer” …what a leap! Set in a world whose history is hinted at but not really explained, your job is to travel to many train stations. At each one you need to get off the train, explore an area on foot, rescue some surv...

12Mar

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Cold Iron Review – Tumbleweed or Triumph?

I always wondered what Jamiroquai were going on about when they sang about the return of the Space Cowboy (I’m showing my age) and now I may finally have my answer! New to PSVR comes Developer’s Catch & Release’s genre bending ‘Cold Iron’ billed as the world’s first puzzle shooter. The game invites you to don your VR headset and channel your inner cowboy to shoot it out against a host of weird and wonderful opponents from the Wild West and beyond. Gameplay The game starts off as a classic western, with even the central game hub being set in an old time saloon. The titular Cold Iron turns out to be your father’s trusty magnum which ends up in your hands when he is gunned down by a posse of outlaws. You start the game looking to avenge your father’s death by duelling his three ki...

Where The Water Tastes Like Wine Review – A Mesmerising Folklore Adventure

1Mar

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Where The Water Tastes Like Wine Review – A Mesmerising Folklore Adventure

This gritty and dark American Folklore tale is by Dim Bulb Games and Serenity Forge. It was also founded by Johnnemann Nordhagen, co-founder of Fullbright and programmer on Gone Home and BioShock 2. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a surreal, poetic journey through American legend and fantasy, featuring delicious art and toe tapping original folk music. It spans a century of US history in the depression era, introducing players to a vast cast of drifters, fortune tellers, and magical creatures – and there’s Sting, yes the musician Sting. https://youtu.be/fnznWYE_wxc Gameplay Having lived for a while in the south, I loved hearing all the old stories, getting lost in the music and visiting vast places of cultural interest on my journeys around Mississippi, Tennessee and New Orleans, ...

RiftStar Raiders Review – Loot Your Way To Greatness

26Feb

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RiftStar Raiders Review – Loot Your Way To Greatness

Space shoot-em ups were pretty much the first style of computer game I ever played as a kid and wow they have certainly come a long way from the days of Asteroids on the Atari ST! RiftStar Raiders by independent developer Climax Studios based in sunny Portsmouth alongside Vision Games Publishing is a top down space shooter that brings the genre to the modern era with 2.5D graphics. Gameplay The story behind RiftStar Raiders is that an alien AI known as Warswarm have waged war on humanity and are attacking the Federation. It is up to you and your team of Raiders to basically shoot all the Warswarm baddies while scavenging and collecting loot to better your weapons, shields and engines. Based on the orbital sin city of Arcadia in the centre of the Far Reachspace, it is down to you ...

Typoman: Revised Review – A Play On Words At Its Finest

22Feb

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Typoman: Revised Review – A Play On Words At Its Finest

Typoman Revised is an independent video game developed by Brainseed Factory for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC and Nintendo Switch. This game follows a hero named Typoman who crafts words to alter the environment around him. The revised version implements several design and graphical improvements so, without further ado, let’s jump into this review with as little typos as possible! https://youtu.be/nfRK-3PpF5A Gameplay Typoman Revised is a 2D puzzle platformer. Players take on the role of a character made of letters, struggling to make his way through a dark and hostile world. What makes Typoman stand out, however, is his ability to craft words that can alter the environment. For example, crafting the word RAIN can bring about a storm or crafting COVER will protect you from ene...

Rad Rogers Review – Shoot Em Up Brilliance

20Feb

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Rad Rogers Review – Shoot Em Up Brilliance

Rad Rogers published by THQ Nordic, is a new take on an old classic. The side scrolling platformer! You take the controls of Rad Rogers, a rambunctious but spirited young boy who maybe plays too many video games. After dozing off at the tail end of a long night of gaming, Rad awakens to find his dusty old console has turned itself back on. Suddenly a vortex emerges and he's sucked into his TV, where he finds himself the star in his very own video game adventure. Dusty is Rad's good-hearted but foul-mouthed, now-sentient game console. His clock speed isn't what it used to be, but what he lacks for in megahertz he makes up for with experience and attitude! Rad & Dusty's adventure begins in the First World, taking them through seven dangerous stages of action-packed, humor-filled, h...

Fe Review – A Magically Captivating Journey

20Feb

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Fe Review – A Magically Captivating Journey

Fe is an action-adventure video game developed by Zoink and published by Electronic Arts under its EA Originals program. Zoink AB is a Swedish video game developer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company was founded in 2001 by Klaus Lyngeled, after he quit his job at Shiny Entertainment to start his own studio. You’ll be able to play it on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One but, for this review I played Fe on the Nintendo Switch. https://youtu.be/rYX3CjSgE4c Gameplay From the moment I loaded Fe and listened to the hypnotic beauty of the start menu, I knew that I was going to be taken on an emotional voyage of the soul. Fe is a delicate fox like creature who’s on a mysterious journey through a dark Nordic forest, filled with strange and wonderful creat...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Review in Progress – Bohemian Rhapsody

13Feb

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance Review in Progress – Bohemian Rhapsody

Ever since Kingdom Come: Deliverance by Warhorse Studios had been announced it was well and truly on the radar here at Thumb Culture, and after finally getting our hands on this ultra-realistic medieval RPG we are happy to report that overall its a great game with a few frustrations. Read on to find out... Gameplay So the gameplay element is where it all is on show, being an RPG if you don't get those gameplay elements right, Kingdom Come: Deliverance will fail even before its begun to canter. So the RPG elements of the game work pretty well, essentially the more you practice a particular skill the better you get at it. So if you want to be better at sword play, then head down to battle arena and get practicing. Having a focus on realism in Kingdom Come: Deliverance gives it a few ...