I wanted to distract myself from things, so I played a game about a lockdown. Go figure. The St Christopher’s School Lockdown is a game that I can’t really tell you how I discovered, because I just don’t know. It’s not from a developer I’d ever heard of before (Classroom Graffiti Productions) it’s not similar … Continue reading Class Division & The St Christopher’s School Lockdown

Outlast is one of my favourite guilty pleasure games – I even wrote an entire big wordy thinky ‘Look Ma, I’m a real journalist!’ piece about Outlast and Ableism – and the reason I call it a guilty pleasure is that it’s not particularly… smart about anything that it does. Artistically, it’s on the same level … Continue reading Outlast 2: What Went Wrong?

I Am Setsuna is one of the most contradictory games I’ve ever played, and with an opening statement like that, it’s really tempting to not explain it at all until the end of the review, but I’ll do it now anyway. I Am Setsuna is a well-made, solidly fun fantasy RPG with a great soundtrack … Continue reading Dopefish Reviews I Am Setsuna

I am writing this article for two reasons. The first reason is because the closest I’ve come to writing about anything remotely serious in a video game in the last few years has been an unhinged 10,000+ word rant about Spec Ops: The Line, and while I tend to enjoy writing about the lighter side … Continue reading Outlast, Mount Massive Asylum & Ableism

If you’re familiar with speedruns, video games, charity events, the Prevent Cancer Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, or the general concept of lots of people getting together to do something really good, then you’ve probably heard of Games Done Quick, a semi-annual week-long event in which a wide variety of video games are played as fast … Continue reading Why Banning Nazis is Good, Actually

It might sound like a shallow and unintelligent thing to say, considering the rich tapestry of culture throughout the ages that we could all stand to learn more about, but it’s amazing how many historical periods make for really great video games. I’m not just talking about the same World War II shooter getting made … Continue reading God of War VS Spartan: Total Warrior

It seems like lately I’ve been dying for the chance to throw my recent gaming history out of a window and scream “Oh screw this, I’ll just talk about an older game I love!” And while one day I will eventually have an hour on Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, and I also have a … Continue reading Dopefish Reviews Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

For full effect, please start playing this video of merry-go-round music to accompany your reading experience. Apparently you call them 'carousels' in the United States. You guys are crazy. https://youtu.be/-tpLgBprqLI Speaking as someone who centuries ago, used to be a child, I can safely say that amongst the things that children love are; sweets, funfairs, … Continue reading RollerCoaster Tycoon VS Theme Park World

When I post a link to this on Twitter, I’ll probably use the tagline ‘Danganronpa; possibly the greatest game I’ve ever not enjoyed’ and that about sums it up really. And this will be the text that gets previewed in that very same post on Twitter, and the few people interested enough in the Danganronpa … Continue reading Dopefish Reviews Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Spec Ops: The Line is, from an artistic point of view, one of the most important games released in the last decade. A brutal no-holds-barred deconstruction of the generic Call of Duty/Medal of Honor style first or third-person shooters in which your average everyman protagonist whose personality – if he has one at all – … Continue reading The Many Pretentious Failings of Spec Ops: The Line