All My Best Friends Are Digital

Whether The Lost Crown is your first Prince of Persia (as it is for Caitlin) or not (as it is for Mark), it's undeniably an influential series of platformers with combat sequences. We'll see how well this latest offering fares. Plus, Mark kind of sort of not really tries Final Fantasy XIV! Maybe. Almost. What We're Playing 01:21 Caitlin: Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (Square Enix, 2024) 09:02 Mark:...

Survival game Pacific Drive has crafting and personality, but we'll see whether that's a marriage that works, especially given the scant guidance you receive in navigating its world. Conversely, Pokémon Ranger offers far too much guidance for its own good. What We're Playing 01:02 Mark: Fight'n Rage (sebagamesdev, 2017) 08:09 Caitlin: Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (Square Enix, 2024) 19:23 GOOF: Po...

It is pretty depressing that Tango Gameworks' reward for the ebullient and excellent Hi-Fi Rush was closure, but we get our own closure by eulogizing their work. There's also much discussion of action RPGs this week, assuming a broad enough definition. What We're Playing 01:02 Mark: Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco, 2021) 08:09 Caitlin: Diablo IV (Blizzard, 2023) 12:54 GOOF: Legacy of the Wizard (Niho...

We shot them up last week, and this week we are beating them up. One wonders what them did to deserve all this violence, but we move on to more pressing questions--such as, what ground food is best? And, how many mechanisms is too much, and how many light years past that is Astral Ascent?  NB: The name of that weird creature in Golden Axe and Altered Beast is a "chicken leg."  What We're Playing 0...

Mark is some sort of degenerate killjoy who doesn't like Tolkien much, but can Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor win him over regardless? Caitlin's death-march through all the Final Fantasy games continues, as does the mining of classic titles from the NES to fuel GOOF. What We're Playing 01:04 Caitlin: Final Fantasy II (Square) 07:26 Mark: Have a Nice Death (Magic Design Studios) 12 :17 GOOF: Dragon...

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice tackles the issue of having a mentally ill protagonist head-on. How successful is the portrayal? And how good is the game itself? And perhaps most importantly, can we all get on the same page and acknowledge that Cain from Final Fantasy II (or IV, for you purists) was a massive douche? What We're Playing 01:12 Caitlin: Hellcard (Thing Trunk, 2024) 05:14 Mark: Cult of t...