Video Game Review: Bound

Presentation is where Bound does its best work, creating a truly surreal world that shifts and undulates as you dance across it. We’ve reviewed hundreds of games, and we can’t think of one that comes all that close to matching what’s offered up here — Bound is modern art mixed with ballet. Screenshots can’t really do it justice because you have to see the ground pulse and watch as countless tiny shapes pursue and engulf you. It’s a sight to behold.

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Video Game Review: Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book

Navigating the menus is an easy feat, as the inventory and character management screens have received a bit of fine tuning. You don’t really ever have to worry about inputs not triggering correctly or registering at all because of the deliberate combat system that is turn-based and generally clearly labeled.

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Video Game Review: I Am Setsuna

In typical JRPG fashion, up to three characters can actively take part in battles (inactive members still earn half the experience). Each carries a class-specific weapon and can equip talismans that provide unique buffs and additional slots for “Spritnite,” which is the game’s version of magic — Spritnite recipes are assembled from the materials dropped by defeated monsters.

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Video Game Review: Ghostbusters

Actually playing the game, however, ends up being an exercise in repetition. So much so, in fact, that we were able to accurately call out when things — like checkpoints and brief cut scenes that introduce larger battles — were going to appear with incredible accuracy. Ghostbusters never throws a curveball, and you end up more or less doing the same thing the same way across the game’s 10 levels.

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Video Game Review: Trials of the Blood Dragon

Trials of The Blood Dragon is quite fun to watch. The explosive neon theme from Far Cry: Blood Dragon makes the transition in both good and bad ways. Starting with the good, the game looks splendid. It doesn’t quite pack the levels with high-poly models or anything like that, but the sweet and sharp colouring of any given stage creates quite the sight.

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