GosuNoob Video Game Reviews
Far Cry 6 Review – Nueva Canción
Blockbuster franchises are notoriously resistant to change. And yet, they must evolve or project the impression of evolving, lest people get bored. There is also a small matter of progressively rising development costs that can lead to serious streamlining and pulling on the opposite side of innovation. Massive publishers, such as Ubisoft, with several blockbuster…
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Gas Station Simulator Review – Outselling Deathloop
I was in the mood for the lightweight, stupid simulated labor, and Gas Station Simulator delivered it in spades. Or gallons. Why did I single…
Sable Review – Boredom and Plagiarism
After a long and arduous search, I had managed to find a high-profile game more dull and pointless than Death Stranding. There needs to be…
Deathloop Review – No One Lives Forever
Even the authors renowned for genre-bending and experimentation can be super cautious when explaining the nature of their games. Ken Levine famously insisted that the…
Life is Strange: True Colors Review – Teenage Melodrama
It seems that the Life is Strange series is destined to forever waddle in its puddle of mediocrity. What started as an interesting take on…
King’s Bounty 2 Review – Unwieldy & Nerdy
The evolution of ACDsee, a popular image viewer from the nineties, should serve as a clear warning for the dangers of excessive inflating. Early versions…
Humankind Review – Numbers Game, Flawed
If you come for the king, you best not miss, said the charismatic, shotgun-wielding, drug-dealer-robbin’ Omar Little from The Wire, paraphrasing American essayist Ralph Waldo…
Psychonauts 2 Review – Livin’ La Vida Loca
It has been an excellent year for cute blockbusters. It Takes Two, a supremely brilliant co-op adventure that is still our most serious GOTY candidate,…
Aliens: Fireteam Elite Review – A Stand-Up Fight or Another Bug Hunt?
The sheer power and artistic quality of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) are carrying the rest of the mediocre Xenomorph movie franchise on their mighty…
Back 4 Blood Preview – Invoking the Old Glory
Marvel’s lawyers tried to copyright the term “zombie” back in the late seventies, but their dick move was not successful (you can read about it…
Jupiter Hell Review – Think and Tear
The latest Doom games went overboard with comically complicated lore that put the unnecessary spin on a legacy concept, perfect in its simplicity. Lone soldier…
Warhammer 40K: Battlesector Review – There Will be Blood
I don’t know the details of Warhammer 40K licensing agreements, but Games Workshop presumably offers a very sweet deal to every prospective developer keen to…
The Ascent Review – Blade Bummer
Neon, rain, noodle stands, and advertising holograms shining through the permanent night. Environmental aesthetics of The Ascent ticks all the cyberpunk boxes, invoking the crushing…
HighFleet Review – Brilliant but Frustrating
Back in the day, when the world was young, maidens fair and Cold War between USA and USSR was still going strong, there was a…
The Witcher: Monster Slayer Review – Walk like an Temerian
I am a novice witcher without the silver sword. I know that Kaer Morhen graduates are supposed to be poor, but this is ridiculous on…
In Sound Mind Preview – Promises of Creep
More than a decade ago, We Create Stuff development team gained significant respect with a Source engine modification called Nightmare House 2. The small disturbing…
Old World Review – OutMeiering Sid
A long time ago, Sid Meier was a creative Jupiter in the solar system of the innovative game design, and Brian Reynolds and Soren Johnson…
Encased Preview – Fallout Meets S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Among a certain subset of fans and game developers, the first two Fallout games are revered as the pinnacle of the computer role-playing game genre….
Phantom Abyss Preview – Whip-Smart
Until there is some radical technology shift regarding how we control or consume games, innovation will mostly manifest itself as a clever combination of established…
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance Review – Roll for Avoidance
American writer Danielle Steel is one of the bestselling modern authors of romantic novels. She has written 179 books and sold 800 million copies of…