Author: AndresPlays

AndresPlays is a professional video game journalist and a passionate gamer.

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Tokyo Scramble is a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive that mixes camp and stealth with dinosaurs to various degrees of success. I want to start this review by taking you back to a scene. A spine-chilling moment, so unforgettable, that you will instantly remember it if you have watched that movie. A velociraptor instinctively opens the door to a kitchen, and it signals to its fellow carnivores with a hair-raising screech: their prey is close. Two kids hiding for their lives, their extreme fear palpable in their breath, chose the wrong shelter. What ensues is one of the most iconic chase…

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Orcs Must Die: By The Blade is a brand new entry in the third-person tower defense series, now built from the ground up for virtual reality. The adaptation feels natural. The Orcs Must Die series has existed for 15 years now, if you can believe it. Rooted in silly antics, this ingenious third-person tower defense action game captured the hearts and minds of medieval enthusiasts thanks to its unique spin on the genre. When most tower defense games were played from a top-down perspective, this orc killer franchise opted for a new kind of gameplay. Several games later, Orcs Must…

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Life Is Strange: Reunion is one of the most anticipated games in the franchise, in no small part due to Chloe Price’s return. A new video from the official LiS channel explains how it was possible. Spoilers for Life is Strange and Life Is Strange: Double Exposure follow. Life Is Strange: Reunion, set to release on March 26, turned many heads with its big announcement reveal. After more than 10 years of devoted fans anxiously waiting for it, Max Caulfield and Chloe Price would finally be reunited again. But now that the dust has settled and the excitement has tempered…

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Solateria is a brand-new, hand-drawn Metroidvania aiming for a March 12 release on Steam. A future Nintendo Switch launch is also in the works. Heavily focused on parrying mechanics, hand-drawn Metroidvania Solateria is set to launch on March 12 for Steam. Developer Studio Doodal and publisher SHINSEGAE I&C have worked on this experience since 2024, aiming for a difficult yet balanced approach to combat and exploration. Evoking a mix of Ori and the Will of the Wisps due to its whimsical look and Hollow Knight thanks to its desolate environment, the goal is to eventually launch on the Nintendo Switch…

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Nioh 3 is the latest entry in the Samurai Action series and Team Ninja’s magnum opus. Here is our comprehensive guide. Nioh 3 has finally been released after almost a year-long announcement and a sweet try of its alpha demo. Many of its mechanics, either carried over from its previous games or entirely new to this entry, are baffling to wrap your head around in the beginning. Because, unlike the previous entries, this is a seamless open world, or Team Ninja’s Elden Ring, it can be difficult to choose which way to go or what to do. It is at…

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Neverness to Everness is currently undergoing its latest beta test called the Co-Ex Test that players can try right now. From Hotta Studio and Perfect World Games, Neverness to Everness, or NTE, is currently welcoming players to its most recent beta test: the Co-Ex Test. This urban open-world RPG caught the attention of anime fans due to its striking art style that breaks away from the usual fantasy stylings for a more modern approach. While registrations for the current test are closed, there is still a chance to be picked for test access by linking your Perfect World Games account…

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Crossings is a Norse-inspired first-person VR soulslike set in the afterlife. Here’s my review. You have fought this boss before. They obliterated you last time. You dodged their heavy attacks, parried the light ones, and physically inflicted a flurry of swings with your fire-imbued axe when stunned. And yet, it was not enough. They disappeared at the last strike, only to reappear behind you and deal a final blow. But you are back and stronger than ever. This will be their end. It’s the afterlife, and with a single drip of sweat scurrying through your temple, you are the one…

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Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass is a postmodern JRPG that makes its way to consoles with a new enhanced edition. Player expectations are built over time, markedly so with a nascent medium such as video games. The JRPG genre, for example, was founded on the tropes first seen in Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Grinding to level up, stocking up on items at each quaint little town, and difficulty spikes found on major bosses. Once the democratization of game development started, we started seeing a fatigue from those patterns to the point where a new subgenre arose: the postmodern JRPG.…

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A new Dragon Quest Wiki has just launched, with its editors committed to becoming the go-to site for fans of the series. When a video game speaks to your soul, it feels like a higher calling. There could never be any other reason, in my mind, as to how someone would dedicate a substantial amount of their lives to being a part of a fandom. And not only that, but to lend their time to write article upon article for a fan-made Wikipedia page. I am, of course, talking in this case about Dragon Quest, the legendary Japanese role-playing franchise…

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Prison Boss Prohibition is a business simulator with a hectic energy only selling contraband and avoiding the law can give. Add a lighthearted tone to a serious subject, and you have a whole new taste for it. Hazbin Hotel introduces a starry-eyed main character to save condemned souls in Hell. Forrest Gump’s premise of an autistic man who apparently was behind every major pivotal moment in the 20th century. Prison Boss Prohibition puts you in a pun-filled backdrop when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited with a twist. Living in New Yolk City, every character is either a chicken…

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