Very mild spoilers follow. New Year’s Day saw the long-awaited return of the BBC’s Sherlock, and the return of Sherlock himself, following his supposed death at the end of the previous season two years ago.
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Thoughts On: Sherlock Season 3 Episode 1 ‘The Empty Hearse’
Tagged with: BBC, Mark Gatiss, Sherlock, Steven Moffat, Television, The Empty Hearse
Posted in Television, Thoughts On
Posted in Television, Thoughts On
Thoughts On: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is a seriously muddled game, on almost every level. It’s an attempted reboot of the classic Castlevania franchise, and it’s very clearly an attempt to modernise the series and bring in new fans – but it’s also…
Tagged with: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Climax Studios, Kojima Productions, Konami, MercuryStream
Posted in Thoughts On, Video Games
Posted in Thoughts On, Video Games
Thoughts On: Mark of the Ninja
Stealth games are difficult to get right. By their very nature, they make failure a binary state – either you’re seen or you’re not.
Tagged with: Klei Entertainment, Mark of the Ninja, Microsoft Studios, Video Games
Posted in Thoughts On, Video Games
Posted in Thoughts On, Video Games
Thoughts On: Gunpoint
I have mixed feelings about Gunpoint. It’s certainly a very slick game, and at first it really ticks all the boxes – gameplay, writing, music, visuals are all top notch. The problem is that there’s not enough of it – not…
Thoughts On: Hitman Absolution
Hitman: Absolution undermines itself spectacularly. It is a perfect testament to the importance of sweating the details. All it takes to bring Absolution down is one fatal flaw: its save system.
Tagged with: Hitman Absolution, IO Interactive, Square Enix, Video Games
Posted in Thoughts On, Video Games
Posted in Thoughts On, Video Games
Thoughts On: Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is a hugely over-ambitious game. It wants to tell you a grand story worthy of the universe it borrows, but it struggles against its limitations. Animations are stiff and unconvincing, as are the majority of the voice…
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