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App Review: All The Fun Of Quick Time Events, Without Those Pesky Events
Everybody loves quick time events, those timed button presses utilized in today’s high-tech interactive entertainment programs to help the user feel a modicum of control over grand cinematic sequences. the problem with quick time events, however, is that the graphical spectacle going on behind the prompts always threatens to steal attention away from important prompts. In John Burton’s QTE: Press X to Not Die there are no annoying cinematics — just 30 seconds of pure, unadulterated button pressing.
App Review: When I Imagine Cyberpunk-Style Hack Battles, This Is What I See
Since the early days of the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper role-playing setting, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of highly skilled computer hackers roaming the plains of cyberspace looking for a fight; digital cowboys with their fingers twitching inches away from their plastic 101-shooters. The realisation that real hackers are just normal people tapping away at standard keyboards was something of a letdown.
App Review: You’re Crazy If You Don’t Get Super Stickman Golf 2 Right Now
As a rule, I like sports in video games better than I do in the real world. For someone like me who’s never been great on the court or field, taking an athletic endeavour and adding a layer of the fantastic to it is one of the best joys that a sports title can offer. It’s a joy that Super Stickman Golf 2 delivers in spades.
App Review: Mother-And-Alien-Child Reunion Is A Few Motions Away
Whenever I feel like the physics puzzle format is completely played out, Fahey slides me another download code, and the thing turns out to be pretty good. Stick To It, ahem, adheres to the basic principles of the genre, but shows there are still clever ways to challenge players to finish a puzzle with an economy of moves.
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