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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

For the King review – For the SLOOTS

I’m not going to go so far as to say that I dislike roguelikes. In fact I can immediately name a couple I’ve had a good time with, along with a few darlings of the industry, things like FTL and Binding of Issac. However, for all that, I also think roguelikes in general are not […]

Divinity: Original Sin 2 review – Forgive me father for I have sinned. Again.

Multiplayer RPGs. It’s a tough nut to crack when it comes to writing out my thoughts for them. Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed a conspicuous absence of any review of Divinity: Original Sin (the first one) despite the fact that I gave it my game of the year for 2014. This is because I find […]

Prey review – Not to be confused with Prey or Bioshock

It is perhaps a little unfair that pretty much every single review I’ve seen of Arkane Studio’s Prey 2017 (because why would they want to give it its own name when there was a perfectly fine older IP to reboot) immediately begins by comparing it to other games. One could be forgiven for thinking therefore […]

Mount and Blade: Warband retrospectacle – Okay, you come at me and I will hit you with my axe. Then you come and I will hit you…

Mount and Blade: Warband, published in 2010, is ostensibly a sequel to the original M&B by TaleWorlds Entertainment (along with Paradox). The reality is that with an only modified gameplay features, map and factions, Warband is more an expansion to the original game than a whole new game in its own right. One might wonder then why we don’t simply […]

Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt review – Triss and Yen have competition…

Honestly I kind of spaffed my load early when it comes to what I think about the Witcher 3. I said it in our 2015 Gaming Awards but I’ll go ahead and say it again now. The Witcher 3 is not just mine and Tim’s Game of the Year for 2015, but quite honestly I […]