It's time to return to the story of Rick Brightheart and the planet Kimori. If this is your first time playing Alpha Kimori, I highly recommend you check out the first episode of the game. While you can watch a short recap of the story when you begin Episode 2, you'll miss out on a lot of it. Also, if you have played Alpha Kimori Episode 1, you will be able to import your party at their current level and also receive a bonus item that can help you out in several of the boss fights.
Calling someone "bigheaded" suddenly becomes a compliment as we step into the world of BigHead Bash - a Soldat-inspired side-scrolling multiplayer shooter set in a toyshop. As bullets fly and kill streaks rise, heads expand until they're fit to burst, making for a far easier target and levelling the playing field.
Everyone is familiar with the conventions of most role-playing games. They're handy to keep in mind when you first fire up the sci-fi RPG Dark Scavenger - but only if you forget about them right away, because they won't do you much good. Psydra Games has put together a point-and-click adventure that thumbs its nose at the status quo and stays true to its own offbeat narrative.
It's been argued that polished graphics are integral to an effective horror game. If you've ever played the original Clock Tower for the SNES, or Silent Hill for PS1, you know how untrue that is. Should you require even more proof (so needy!), look no further than indie PC title Home, a game that manages to bring on the scares with graphics not unlike what we saw in the 16-bit era.
You gotta hand it to Spintop Games; they're nothing if not consistent. Amazing Adventures: Riddle of the Two Knights is the fifth game in the company's Amazing Adventures series, and it does an incredible job of recreating the gameplay of the previous four. Some might say an uncanny job of it. The result is a simplistic, mediocre-looking game built on hours and hours of mindless repetition.
While on a voyage at sea, John Brave's homeland was destroyed by an evil tyrant bent on total domination. Having overthrown the king and plunged the land into darkness, Brave returns home to find his village and entire kingdom destroyed. Not one to take things lying down, Brave enlists the help of countless rebels and warriors on a quest to reclaim and rebuild his home in Kingdom Chronicles, a time-management game that will seem incredibly familiar to fans of the genre.
Being a god seems very over-rated. You've always got important jobs to do, on which real lives depend, and if you mess up there may well be disastrous consequences. No, I'd much rather sit back with a god simulation game - at least that way I know only pixels were harmed in the making of my godlike incompetence.
I love hidden object games, but I admit I'm not crazy about their general lack of narrative finesse. The majority of them are entirely item-driven, built on the idea of collecting items and figuring out where to use them. Persha Studia's new hidden object adventure, Tesla's Tower: The Wardenclyffe Mystery is a great game because it does what so many titles in the genre do not: it goes beyond using popular hidden object mechanics for their own sake, and puts them to work telling a good story.