Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Review
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is not the most action packed Monsterverse entry, but it’s probably the most interesting overall. Hell, it’s easily the best written and does a great job of intertwining with the films in the franchise.
Little Nightmares 2 Is More Crushing Sadness
The original Little Nightmares game had me feeling like I needed a hug afterwards. This one has me needing therapy. So it goes, but damn does it go. What the first Little Nightmares did for greed, this game does for emotional manipulation and abuse. Playing this game was easy but finishing it was brutal.
LEGO Fortnite: Dark Space Is The Lego Horror Map I Had No Idea I Needed
LEGO Dark Space is intriguing from top to bottom, from it’s design choices, tone and overall concept. It’s a first person Lego puzzle horror game. It has a plot of sorts, it’s got a fun and diverse set of puzzles and it’s also legitimately creepy and scary. I was very surprised by what they were able to do with the LEGO style here.
Little Nightmares: Secrets of the Maw DLC Review
When you have a great game, sometimes you just need to make more of it. So Tarsier games did.
Dredge: The Iron Rig-Review
Dredge’s second DLC has Lovecraftian horror meeting corporate mismanagement at an absurd scale.
Little Nightmares Left Me Feeling Uneasy and Alone
I picked up Little Nightmares primarily as a Halloween game. Something fun and spooky. Or so I thought. Instead I found something deep, dark, beautiful and horrifying. This is one of those games that seems like a children’s game that is absolutely not a children’s game. Thematically, it’s one of the bleaker experiences I’ve had in recent memory. And yet also- some of the most fun I’ve had playing a platformer in years.
“The Cranes Are Flying” Is A Beautiful, Sad Movie
What struck me the most about The Cranes Are Flying wasn’t the brilliant technical aspects, or the smart, well structured story. It was the sheer humanity created by the performances and writing.
Dredge Is One of The Best “Cozy” Games I’ve Ever Played
Yes. Dredge is a fishing game. And it’s fantastic.
Hit Me Hard and Soft-Billie Eilish
This record feels like being impaled by a saw blade while on opium.
Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism Review
Dua Lipa went on vacation for four years (not actually) and now the suits want their money. They don’t want a prog pop-rave record. Give us the hits and a pretty CD to sell at Target please. Here’s to a summer of Radical Optimism.
Track Review: Charli XCX-Von Dutch
“Von Dutch” is the opening single from Charli XCX’s album Brat, which comes out on June 7th. That is a record we will be discussing when it comes out for sure. And this single has me hyped.
I’m Ready To Talk About The Tortured Poet’s Department by Taylor Swift
So many drum machines.
New York 9s: We Still Don’t Trust You (The Mixtape)
This is the Holy Grail of recent Future projects, because it’s basically everything we’ve ever asked of Future. Mean, angry, blistering trap bangers. Future is one of, if not the best, rapper alive and this little mixtape should be celebrated as his latest triumph, not as a throwaway mixtape.
We Still Don’t Trust You-Future & Metro Boomin
This album will definitely age well, though probably in a different way, as evidence of both Metro and Future’s more experimental and off of the straight and narrow style music. It’s got a much softer, pop-esque record, with very different production and songwriting from the first
We Don’t Trust You- Future & Metro Boomin
They’ve made a lot of classics before and it’s been a while since we got a heavy dose of Future/Metro. So naturally my expectations were high.
Rating Every Monsterverse Movie by How Much I Like Them
Godzilla X Kong: A New Empire is almost here, and I can’t wait to see it. The Monsterverse has always been a guilty pleasure of mine, mostly because big monsters destroying things rules. I’m not sure I need to explain myself further.