I’ve never really done a “Shoutout for the inspiration!” preface to an article before, but I had been thinking about writing about how crap Pokémon Picross is for some time without acting on it because I didn’t think it would be very interesting to anyone. Then in early February, the irreplaceable James Stephanie Sterling posted … Continue reading Pokémon Picross is Freemium Garbage

I have mixed feelings about Sonic Generations. On the one hand, it’s one of the best video games of all-time; a nostalgic trip through the history of a beloved franchise, with 2D and 3D levels set in the most recognizable worlds of previous Sonic games, beautiful graphics, perfectly responsive controls, excellent level design, a soundtrack … Continue reading Sonic Unleashed is Awesome, Actually

… I mean, if you want to. Not to immediately undercut the entire point of this article, but in the modern age of toxic fans and unpleasable fanbases, it feels wrong to write an article saying that the developer of The Binding of Isaac should stop updating it without acknowledging that… it’s your game, Ed. … Continue reading Please Stop Updating The Binding of Isaac

Hey, who here remembers when THQ Nordic held an AMA on a child-porn site? Anyone? THQ Nordic sure have had a colourful and eventful history; publishing well-received series like Painkiller and Book of Unwritten Tales, they’ve just published Biomutant which I’m hearing decent things about, they’ve acquired the distribution rights to some fantastic intellectual property … Continue reading Dopefish Reviews This Is The Police 2

When a franchise strikes gold, and the market is quickly saturated with similar titles seeking to capitalize on their popularity – often with disappointing results – then sometimes it’s easy to forget exactly why the originator was so successful to begin with. The Far Cry series is a great example of this; Far Cry 3 … Continue reading The Pointless Plot of Far Cry 4

Of all the genres out there, I feel like puzzle games often go the most overlooked by design. They tend not to have an overarching storyline that would earn some kind of emotional investment from the player – except for the Professor Layton series, and even then the puzzles and the plot are treated as … Continue reading Dopefish Reviews Deleveled

I first became aware of Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story (according to Google Translate, the Chinese is ‘Ominous Premonition’) in August 2019 when I was playing a bunch of itch.io demos of cyberpunk games for a podcast, and while it was decent enough for me to find the Steam store page for the … Continue reading Sense and Censorship: A Manufactured Outrage?

2020 sucked, and that’s about all the introduction that it deserves. Let’s get straight into ten games I played last year that are worth talking about and may have even been worth celebrating, if perhaps I had only played them during a year that was less notably shitty. Just two quick things to note; firstly, … Continue reading 10 Great Games I Played In 2020

Like most people who were excited about the XIII remake, I do not actually exist. By that, I mean that despite being a huge fan of XIII, I can’t remember if I actually knew that a remake of it was coming out. I think I may have seen a story about it at some point, … Continue reading Dopefish Reviews XIII

It’s time to talk about the hottest cyberpunk game of 2020; Technobabylon, which came out in 2015. Since it’s too big for the home computer I mainly use to play late-90s Sierra city-building games, and it’s not coming to the GameCube any time soon, I haven’t been paying attention at all to Cyberpunk 2077 other … Continue reading Dopefish Reviews Technobabylon