The Lost Bear – PSVR / PS4 Review
I often talk about the idea of mixing established genres of games and mechanics. It’s an incredible gamble for a developer as they need to break the players perceptions of how something works on its...
View ArticleSenko no Ronde 2 – PS4 Review
I’ve always liked Street Fighter and other 1 on 1 fighting games, there’s a standard there that you can understand. In my youth characters like E Honda, Blanka and Chun Li always stood out to me...
View ArticleSenran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash – PS4 Review
Almost exactly two years ago I reviewed Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson for the 3DS. At the time I skirted around the most obviously selling point of the now 6 year old series, the incredibly well...
View ArticletheHunter: Call of the Wild – PS4 Review
“Choose your battles”… It’s an interesting concept. You need to know where your lines are and in a modern context when to voice concern and when to just keep shut. When starting theHunter: Call of the...
View ArticlePhantom Breaker Battle Grounds Overdrive – Nintendo Switch Review
Serendipity, or coincidence; I don’t usually talk behind the curtain stuff when doing my reviews on Pixelbedlam, however sometimes an odd thing happens that needs mentioning. For the past couple of...
View ArticleHuman Fall Flat – Nintendo Switch Review
I have many mental ticks that mess me up on a day to day basis. One of them is that when I’m walking I become obsessed with how weird walking is, it’s unsettling when you see a dog walk on it’s hind...
View ArticleBrawlout – Nintendo Switch Review
I’ve always had an interest in fighting games, since the first time I played Street Fighter 2 on my brothers’ Amiga at the age of 6 they’ve held a special place in my heart. About 8 years ago, my...
View ArticleMurderous Pursuits – PC Review
It’s weird to look at games out of context of style or presentation. On the face of it Murderous Pursuits is a multiplayer game where you must kill a target assigned to you, controlled by another...
View ArticleDeath Road to Canada – Switch Review
Setting can justify a lot with a game’s potential flaws. Crippling random number generators and games of ‘what am I thinking of?’ can be infuriating and the death of many games, but give context to the...
View ArticleThe Fall – Nintendo Switch Review
There’s few genres of game that have, in my humble opinion, aged as badly as point and click games. In the 90’s, and even today, if you asked me for some of my favourite games I would list the Monkey...
View ArticleRunner3 Review – Nintendo Switch
Certain genre’s feel like they’re of their time. There are fewer and fewer point and click games for example and the myriad of MOBA’s have thankfully fallen by the wayside too. When most people think...
View ArticleSuper Sportmatchen – Nintendo Switch Review
About 10 years ago I started building my own arcade machine, a large thrust of doing this was down to a summer where I became obsessed with Track and Field. My friends and I played hundreds of games of...
View ArticlePode – Nintendo Switch Review
The launch trailers for many consoles in retrospect look more than a little bit silly. The Nintendo Switch reveal trailer especially is all kinds of aspirational cringe worthy material, with its cool...
View ArticleDead Cells – PC / PS4 / Xbox One / Switch Review
Metroidvania was one of those terms in gaming that just had no effect on me, that is until about a year ago. I knew what it meant but outside of that I just had no interest. Then I realised that I...
View ArticleGuacamelee 2 – PC / PS4 Review
Starting something is hard, I’ve written 3 different introductions to this review already. With games it’s especially hard to find that balance between introduction and teasing what’s to come. When a...
View ArticleVroom Kaboom – PC / PS4 / PSVR Review
I feel like I’ve spoken a hundred times about genre mash-ups recently here on Pixelbedlam, usually it’s just a couple of game styles that are brought in together, but Vroom Kaboom smashes together so...
View ArticleGreen Hell – PC Review (Early Access)
Before I start this proper it’s worth noting that Green Hell is in Early Access on Steam currently, each publication is going to decide whether that denotes a game getting a review or a preview but I...
View ArticleUNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[st] – PC Review
This site is a self indulgence for me, it’s a creative outlet where I can talk about what I love. But there’s a certain genre that I don’t really talk about on here despite it being my favourite,...
View ArticleSenran Kagura Reflexions – Nintendo Switch Review (NSFW)
Up front I’m going to say that this review is potentially Not Safe For Work! Images whilst not offensive to most will at the very least make your boss question what you’re looking at on your work...
View ArticleThe Swindle – Nintendo Switch Review
With Cyberpunk 2077 creeping it’s way into the subconscious of the gaming community, thanks to a break in the dam that was their marketing strategy, it’s easy to forget that there’s the other awesome...
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