As a new entry to the life sim genre, The Last Alchemist has a fairly simple crafting game structure with complex mechanics.
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Cult of the Lamb is a cup of Binding of Isaac mixed with a dollop of Stardew Valley, combined to form a cult of fun.
Silent Hope combines the farm sim and dungeon crawler with a CRPG cast under a JRPG aesthetic, a change of pace from Marvelous’ Rune Factory.
A monthly writeup of the games enjoyed by the writers of The Pixels.
A weekly writeup of the games enjoyed by the writers of The Pixels.
Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town has a 3D remake for modern consoles but does it need to be exactly as you remembered?
A weekly writeup of the games played by the writers of The Pixels.
Red recalls his heart-raciest, pulse-punchiest, pupil-dilatiest, responsibility-shirkiest, insomnia-induciest gaming addiction games!
Super Star Wars was widely praised in its time and has since developed a reputation for brutality, but what makes it so hard?
Are we living in the golden age of gaming right now? The Infernal Accountant Mage makes a point via Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen.
How does the Super Mario franchise handle a mash-up between traditional RPG elements and golfing sports game? How does Arcade Mage remember it?
“Taking it all in all, with the walk and the evening, and the blessed sense…
Can you believe it? We’re coming to the end of a literal era. The 2010s…
“This time, The Warrior of Light must become The Warrior of Darkness.”
Can Super Lucky’s Tale capture all the color, the energy, and the spunk of the 3D platformers of days gone by?
The Reader’s Choice Game of the Year event is back and better than ever!
“Elysium is a perfect world, created by the Ancients thousands of years ago. A world of eternal youth… a world without disease, hunger or war.” -Yuna, Mega Man Legends 2
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
-Nikola Tesla, Problem of Increasing Human Energy
Welcome to #TWRMGOTY1997, our 2nd Reader’s Choice Game of the Year event! Voting is open until Friday (4/26)!
Serialized specially for The Well-Red Mage, based on the podcast by Wesley Schantz
Learn this well, the last ride is never the last ride.
And the end is not the end.
-Richard Rowland
Don’t be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
-Akio Morito, founder of Sony
“Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?”
-Isaiah 10:15 [ESV]
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
-Ayn Rand
In this Vagrant Story critique, we revisit one of the more challenging and inaccessible offerings from Square right at the tail end of the 90s.
Ready to get addicted? Today we’re talking about massively-multiplayer online experiences, or MMOs. More…
“To be a butterfly, a caterpillar has to become a chrysalis first, even if it never for a moment wanted to become one.”
-Taeko Okajima
“I’ve been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We’d be writing blog entries like, ‘The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'”
-Neil Gaiman
