There is something to be said about the Thriller genre of fiction. A thriller, when written correctly, is an edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle ride that either keeps you turning the pages or tuning in to see what happens next. The masters of the craft, from the late messrs Tom Clancy and Vince Flynn to Brad Thor, Howard […]
Good evening, my lovely little slaves to fate. One of the most unexpectedly prolific subgenre of fiction must be the survival game or ‘death game’ subgenre. If my memory serves me correctly, the ‘death game’ subgenre can trace its roots as far back as 1924, when Richard Connell published The Most Dangerous Game. Since then, […]
This…this has been a long time coming. In the opening of my Impulse review last year, I specifically stated that this very title was on track to be the Worst of 2016 until the broken wreckage of that wannabe Scooby-Doo crew landed on my desk. But why? Impulse earned its criticism, yet Lucid9: Inciting Incident […]
One thing I often hear as a critic is that no matter how bad I believe a game is, I need to find something positive about it. I admit that it mostly stems not from what I critique, but rather it comes from how I critique. After five years of this, I’ve never been one […]