Bleak. Beautiful. Oppressive. That’s the situation in Metro: Last Light, the latest (read: second) in the Metro series by 4A Games. It is also poignant, resonant, and haunting. It follows the genesis set forth in Metro 2033, allowing the player to once again control Artyom as he sets out to the hostile surface to kill [...]
I don’t remember when I heard it first, but someone at some point years ago made the astute observation that as the video game industry matures, we’ll see more and more genre-bending games come out. It was a salient point that became more pertinent as time went on. Nowadays you see RPG elements like experience [...]
Are you familiar with the saying “it’s not about the destination but the journey”? Of course you are; you’re not an idio—you’re an erudite-lookin’ fellow and it is a rather trite cliché at this point, bordering on a platitude. It is, actually, a bastardization/generalization of a (possible) Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: “life is a journey, [...]
It’s your birthday. It’s your birthday and you’re spending it getting dragged along by your overly eager friend. You know the one: the one that loves to celebrate friendship-a-versaries and the annual return of the McRib. They also have an undying love for surprise parties, so you know that somewhere along the way, you will [...]
This is it. This is the last post of my unofficial BioShock Infinite week. I hope you’ve stuck around for it because I’d like to think that not only does the game warrant such discussion and analysis but so does my writing. Ken Levine and the crew at Irrational Games have crafted a deep, multilayered [...]
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