by envisionmg | May 3, 2021 | Fiction, Staff Reading, Video Game
Next up on Chris’ to be read list: Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders “February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile,...
by envisionmg | Feb 3, 2021 | Staff Review, Video Game
If Tim and Eric made Metroid, you would get Journey to the Savage Planet. You play as a nameless goon sent to explore a thought-to-be-uninhabited planet by the proudly “fourth best” interplanetary exploration company. Surprise, the planet is very much...
by envisionmg | Nov 23, 2020 | Staff Review, Video Game
Kirby games exist at the golden mean of relaxing gameplay for me. Not too violent but not too sedate. Not too daunting but not too simple. You get the sense that even Kirby’s enemies don’t mind getting a bop on the head by a mallet or parasol. It’s...
by envisionmg | Aug 27, 2020 | Staff Picks, Video Game
Moving Out is a moving simulator game where you work against the clock to load a van with boxes and furniture, but please don’t stop reading here. You won’t begin to appreciate its anarchic brand of fun until you realize it’s much faster to chuck...
