SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI V
In Shin Megami Tensei V, things move fast. Here we are sitting in a lesson in a Japanese school, and after a few minutes we find ourselves in an alternative,…

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EPIC CHEF
Cursed old house A guy with a speaking name Smak arrives by ship in the port of the city of Ambrosia. The captain throws him overboard without saying goodbye and…

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RUIN RAIDERS
My kingdom for entium! The formula here is really classic - having recruited three tailed fighters from the available menagerie, we set off to clear the ruins and dungeons, where,…

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WOLFSTRIDE
Still, finding real diamonds in a pile ... in the basements of Steam is already akin to a drug for me. The next dose was Wolfstride - a game that…

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LOVECHOICE
It seems to me that the fact that you need to work on the relationship between lovers (especially after the candy-bouquet period ends and the first, blind love goes away),…

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SHERLOCK HOLMES: CHAPTER ONE

Brilliant, eccentric and extraordinarily charismatic, Sherlock Holmes is rightfully considered one of the greatest literary heroes of all times and peoples – it is not without reason that every new fictional detective sooner or later begins to be compared with the legendary occupant of 221 Baker Street.

But here’s the paradox: although the character has been with us for more than a hundred years, and even schoolchildren know his adventures by heart, the detective’s early life is still shrouded in a veil of secrecy. What events shaped the image of Holmes? Continue reading

CONWAY: DISAPPEARANCE AT DAHLIA VIEW

Connoisseurs of good English detectives, the gaming industry, to put it mildly, does not indulge. But in November, they were rewarded in many ways for their expectations. This is not only about Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, but also about Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View, a new game from the British studio White Paper Games – the authors of The Occupation (also a detective, but political) and puzzle Ether One. The main character here, of course, is not Sherlock, but he is also an excellent detective, and the game itself turned out to be quite good. Continue reading

WHITE SHADOWS

We are not welcome here
The game immediately warns about the topics that will be raised in it. Here and racism, and xenophobia, and violence with forced labor. There is also cruelty to animals: all the characters here are representatives of the fauna. Wolves, pigs, rats – “all animals are equal,” as posters and neon signs say. Everyone except birds: they are considered carriers of all kinds of infection and seek to either destroy or “remake”. Although some other animals in this universe clearly do not belong to the top of the social pyramid. Continue reading

SAM & MAX: BEYOND TIME AND SPACE REMASTERED
The Sam & Max Save the World remaster came out last December. Then the developers from the Skunkape team assured us that the rest of the seasons would sooner or…

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LOVECHOICE
It seems to me that the fact that you need to work on the relationship between lovers (especially after the candy-bouquet period ends and the first, blind love goes away),…

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THIS IS THE PRESIDENT
Political satire arose, perhaps, simultaneously with the advent of this very policy - anecdotes, jokes and ridicule of the highest leaders of the state have always been popular among the…

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