TQotW – Game Criticism Reading List
What games would you include in a “Starter Kit” for a beginning games critic? Which games demand closer examination to sharpen your skills? (Tweet) Games are a whole bunch of […]
Author Archives: Taylor Hidalgo
Art Tickles – Putting Out Gunfire
Written for Haywire Magazine. Super. Hot. Super. Hot. Super. Hot. I love guns. I do not like guns. They are fascinating. They are terrible. This world is beautiful. Muted whites […]
Hyper Universe Review – On Many Levels
Written for MMOGames, recreated in-part with permission. Battle is frantic. Explosions burst behind swordsmen as they charge heedlessly forward, through the cacophony of death, in order to crush opposition at […]
Art Tickles – What Lurks Beneath
Written for Haywire Magazine. I don’t really know what I’m doing. Subnautica isn’t a game about anything in particular. At least, not for me. It has crafting mechanics, certainly, and […]
Art Tickles – What Friends Do
Written for Haywire Magazine. The Animal Crossing series has always felt like visiting a vacation home. Far from life’s stressors, it’s a place to wear some favorite clothes, maintain a […]
Art Tickles – Hard Stop, Fresh Start
Written for Haywire Magazine. This was a tough year. A year that brought a lot of political struggle, a lot of social outcry, a great deal of exhaustion, and not […]
Wild Buster Preview – A Violent, Alien Landscape
Written for MMOGames, recreated in-part with permission. It’s all in ruins. The war came, and we lost. Our planet was bathed in war and fire, our people were packed into […]
Escape from Tarkov Preview — Every Round is Sudden Death
Written for MMOGames, recreated in-part with permission. The grass sways gently around me, I am laying prone in the weeds, and I’m increasingly certain that the footsteps I’m hearing aren’t […]
It All Comes Down
(Note: This article contains significant spoilers for the freeware visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club. Those hoping to avoid spoilers should play the game prior to reading. Content Warning: Mental […]
SMITE’s Shadows Over Hercopolis — Flashy and Repetitive
Written for MMOGames, recreated in-part with permission. Really, it doesn’t feel right. Everything is too floaty, my randomly acquired equipment is doing more for my team than I am, and […]