Dragon Age: The Veilguard review – “A return to form” if the form was “SHIT”

In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, player character Rook reflects on their identity while facing Elven Gods in Thedas. Despite moments of self-affirmation, the game suffers from poor writing, shallow gameplay mechanics, and a disregard for previous lore. Ultimately, it fails to engage fans, earning a disappointing rating of 26/100.

Baldur’s Gate 3 review – Gentlemen of culture, we meet again

This review ended up being so sprawling because of the amount of thoughts I’ve had on it that I’ve had to divide it up into different sections. I regret absolutely nothing about this because I love the sound of my own voice… The Preamble It took me damn near a year and a half to […]

Cyberpunk 2077 review – I’m sorry V, I can’t let you do that

I first booted up Cyberpunk 2077 about a month post-release at the end of 2020. This was back during the COVID-era (which I cannot believe was already 5 years ago, are you joking?) and Cyberpunk was probably the most-hyped game since No Man’s Sky or GTA V. I remember you couldn’t walk anywhere without seeing […]

Pentiment review – Only The penitent man will pass

I’m fairly late to this particular train (understatement of the year), but man, Obsidian Entertainment make some absolutely shit-hot narrative games. KOTOR2, Fallout New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny. These are games where the story is front and centre and because of it they’ve remained beloved games for decades after release (with many still […]

Beyond the Pale Sleeper – Citizen Sleeper and The Pale Beyond double review

I have in the last couple of months played a couple of new “point-and-click” (I use the phrase loosely) narrative-focused games which both use time elements and resource management to drive their central story. The games in question here being The Pale Beyond and Citizen Sleeper. The similarity of the mechanics of both games combined […]

Psychonauts 2 review – raztackular

Psychonauts is a game that has some fairly outstanding pedigree. It’s one of those cult classics which have become deeply rooted in nostalgia for a great many people, partly because the original supposedly underperformed commercially and partly because there haven’t been a billion sequels to beat the idea to death. It fits into a niche […]

Persona 5 Royal review – Schoolgirls, maids, romance and of course using your powers to change the way people view the world

This is gonna be one of the weirder reviews I’ve done here on MMGaming. Persona 5 Royal was honestly a pretty excellent game, one I’d thoroughly recommend (with a few caveats of course), and that’s so-far, so-standard. The game is extremely highly praised, so adding more praise on top of that probably doesn’t seem quite […]

The King’s Dilemma (board game) review – A point! a point! my kingdom for a victory point!

THIS REVIEW IS CERTIFIED SPOILER FREE So, two years ago, pandemic gripped the land, and that’s an ironic statement because I mean the real one and not the board game. Yes, I know, I’m a comedic genius. During that time my friend’s and I turned to TableTop Simulator for our board game fix, something we’d […]

Hades review – You must travel up, from the house of the dead

I am not a huge fan of roguelikes. As time has gone on it has become more and more apparent to me that, sure, if I’m playing with my friends mechanics are important to me, but if I’m playing alone I place much greater emphasis on story, world-building and character. By their very nature roguelikes […]

Elden Ring review – Art thou also maidenless?

I did it. I fuuuuuucking did it. I’ve mentioned in the past that my experience with Souls-like games is pretty limited. I dabbled with Bloodborne, but only barely got past the first boss and in Dark Souls I reached Quelaag but never killed her. In short, I got enough of a taste of both, but […]