Can we all get a round of applause for getting to the final mission of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt? Except for those who skipped all side quests and only got 30 hours of gameplay instead. No celebration for you. At this point, Geralt has traveled between different regions, visited villages, gone out into the …
There’s something magical about Demon’s Souls: its use of confined game worldbuilding as cold and cruel frames and accentuates its characters’ stories. A boss fight, but more importantly, a narrative that sets Demon’s Souls from both its contemporaries and any later Souls is the encounter with Maiden Astraea. This lady was one of the main …
Ah, the Witcher 3 Blood and Wine. The expansion brought us a colorful, sunny map, new mobs, and a villain that could have been sympathetic but ended up becoming a homicidal bastard last minute. I am talking about Dettlaff, the ladies’ favorite higher vampire. For an expansion named Blood and Wine, and from a franchise …
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the decision-maker game you did not know you had signed up for. Perhaps you were just here to stick your pointy sword at some aghouls and throw a bomb or two at their nest to grab that loot – maybe even get caught in the explosion by accident, who …
Bloodborne’s designer Kazuhiro Hamatani puts players in a difficult strategic position. This time, the challenge does not arise from confronting nearly impossible-to-beat, hugely monstrous bosses. Instead, a decision has been made to design 27 equippable runes with in-game perks while only allowing players to equip four at a time. Thus, a player must choose: do …
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Bloodborne’s Amygdala is one of the Nightmare Frontier’s optional bosses – a name fitting for a place where you can find a creature named after the part of the brain that regulates human fear. Did Miyazaki also get a degree in Neurology? This question remains unanswered. This whole battle is just a test of patience. …
Just as with the Bloodborne main game, the Old Hunters DLC offers us a few final bosses that you will have to defeat to prove that you are really at the height of the Hunter title. Of course, it’s a few enemies compared to all the ones you’ve defeated, but that doesn’t make you feel …
