“Is the dark side stronger?” Luke Skywalker’s famous question is so much more than a mere enquiry as to the metric strength of one mystical power against another; it is a universal philosophical question that has haunted humanity since we could first articulate ourselves. Are artists who push themselves into madness and despair greater than…
Let me start by admitting I’m a great lover of turn-based strategy games. From Final Fantasy, Lord of the Rings: The Third Age right through to the recent epically punishing Darkest Dungeon. There’s something satisfying about making tactical choices in a controlled planning stage and then watching those decisions enacted out, witnessing either the success…
“There is a theory which states that the closer one comes to reaching the limits of spiritual power, the more unstable they become.” This quote by Weiss, one of the angels in Arcana Heart, tells you everything you need to know about this game and goes some way to explaining its madness. As if God-level…
The Binding of Isaac is one of those games you wish you could stop playing. It’s one of those games you play in a dream state and when you wake up you take a step back from it to start desperately applying your critical faculties. Even then, you cannot understand why this game is so…
“And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot” – Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe’s famously ominous quote from his poem Ligeia might be the best description possible for the new roguelike out on the block. Darkest Dungeon is a game that on the one hand, uses many of…
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