
It's cool that Lilith is back but where's my loot?

Last reviewed: Zero Parades: For Dead Spies · 2 months ago

It's cool that Lilith is back but where's my loot?

A gripping finale can’t save a bland cast and shallow writing


And if you’re one of those people, welcome

Seven years in the making, this one-person passion project is unlike any other… if you have the willpower to see it through

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is the best video game adventure I’ve experienced since Elden Ring, a far more approachable open-world game that has no doubt colored how players perceive this year’s big fantasy RPG. (It certainly did for me.) But like another FromSoftware game, the original Demon’s Souls, I found that once I had accepted Dragon’s Dogma 2’s peculiarities and deciphered what it was asking of me, I fell deeply in love. Dragon’s Dogma 2 awakens those old feelings of learning to overcome my expectations of what a game should be, then discovering new types of experiences along the way. That’s the best kind of journey.


It doesn’t change the game, but it shows why Stardew Valley was a game changer

In the early ’80s, this man was making up to 12 unhinged games a year

This is a grim RPG set in an alternate 1905 Warsaw that’ll force you to make some tough choices

Did it really need a mushroom-picking minigame, though

Bandle Tale is the final — and the coziest — game from Riot Forge

Donkey Kong ’94 is the really good stuff

It’s a whole game made of Witcher 3 contracts that will make you cry

In an era of phenomenal fighting games, Tekken 8 may eventually recede into the background

I already consider it a modern horror classic, one that opens up a veritable ocean of possibilities for Remedy’s future. If it takes another 13 years for a game of Alan Wake 2’s caliber to come along again, it will have been well worth the wait.

The game did manage to answer one of my questions, though: Hercule Poirot does not charge his phone at night, and this, mon ami, might be the greatest modern crime of all.