Tag: Video Game
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Hall of Fame Review – Persona 5 (2017)
Release Date: Japan – September 15, 2016, Worldwide – April 4, 2017 Developer: Atlus Publisher: Atlus Rating: M for Mature Genre: Social Simulator, RPG Platforms: Playstation 3, Playstation 4 It’s nearly impossible for me to justify playing a video game expecting to take 100 hours to get through: the side quests there are to explore,…
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TellTale’s The Walking Dead Season 3: Ep. 5 From the Gallows Review
Release Date: May 30, 2017 Developer: TellTale Games Publisher: TellTale Games Rating: M for Mature Genre: Interactive Storytelling, Click and point Platforms: Xbox One, Playstation 4, iOs, Android, Mac, PC/Steam TellTale has always been narratively ambitious with their The Walking Dead series. Each season routinely examines the concepts of family and the human condition through…
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Horizon: Zero Dawn Review
Release Date: February 28, 2017 Developer: Guerilla Games Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Genre: Action, Adventure, Open World System: Playstation 4 Playtime: 45 hours Guerilla Games and I have never gotten along. Their penultimate, Playstation-exclusive franchise Killzone was a massive disappointment to me. Labelling it the Halo killer, this first-person franchise felt more like a graphical…
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Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The Review You Were All Waiting For
by Isaac Smith To be frank, I don’t think anyone was really waiting for reviews of the new Zelda game. To continue being frank, I don’t think most reviewers waited to write them, either. Leave it to Last Token Gaming to take the tortoise approach to hare-brained video game reporting! Now that we’re done breaking…
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TellTale’s The Walking Dead: Season 3: A New Frontier – Episode 2: Ties That Bind, Pt. 2 Review
Release Date: December 20, 2016 Developer: TellTale Games Publisher: TellTale Games Genre: Third Person Perspective, Platformer, Action-Adventure System: Xbox One (Reviewed), Playstation 4, PC, Mac, Android, iPhone *As with any review copy, I want to thank TellTale for providing the review copy for TellTale The Walking Dead: Season 3: Brave New Frontier to Last Token…
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – Review
Release Date: August 23, 2016 Developer: Eidos Montreal Publisher: Square Enix Genre: Action, Stealth, First Person Shooter, Single Player System: Xbox One (Reviewed), Playstation 4, Microsoft Windows Time Played to Completion: 31 hours, 8 minutes (35 hours including reloading game) Transhumanism is the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current…
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Is No Man’s Sky “No Man’s Game”?
No Man’s Sky came out amid an uproar of hype that felt truly astounding. The developers were open-minded, earnest, and proud of their product (not just its revenue). They kept a dialogue going with NMS’ potential players during the development process, and took criticism seriously. The game itself looked gorgeous: beautiful beyond compare, with…
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INSIDE – Review
Release Date: June 29, 2016 Developer: Playdead Games Publisher: Playdead Games Genre: Single Player, Adventure, Platformer System: Xbox One (Reviewed), Playstation 4, Microsoft Windows I remember back when Limbo came out, I was a little hesitant to buy into the intrigue. After all, as evidenced by games like No Man’s Sky, the hype can often…
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What We’re Playing This Week – ‘Murica Edition
Jake Rushing – Muramasa The Demon Blade (Wii) I never got the chance to beat Wario Ware last week, due to my schedule, but I will come back to it later. However, after playing Muramasa for a bit, the art style, cooking mechanics, and the fast paced fluid combat kept drawing me in and kept…
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War Never Changes – FallOut 4 Review
Release Date: November 10, 2015 Rated: T for Teen Publisher: Bethesda Game Studios Developer: Bethesda Softworks Platform: Xbox One, Playstation 4, PC Completion time: 3 days, 5 hours and 20 minutes aka 77 hours and 20 minutes. FallOut 3 had a bevy of expectations lobbied against it before its eventual release. Fans of the franchise had been…