On the Precipice of a New World
The chilly February afternoon in early February hosted a number of writers to preview Amazon Game Studios’ New World.
Author Archives: Taylor Hidalgo
Leveraged Words
Clients sit and talk to me about their lives, and I make mild observations or comments as I see fit. Amidst our chatter, I mix drinks.
Art Tickles – Well-suited
It’s all glitzy neon and flashing lights, people in suits and waistcoats mill around the streets barking advertisements for their stores and inviting businessmen into the bars to drink with well-dressed women. The finest sushi is paired with an array of booze. Bars offer karaoke machines to every patron, each booth its own private singing club. The streets of Kamurocho are packed with pedestrians, flitting to and fro in the city of glitz and light, and Kiryu is punching a man halfway to death in an alleyway.
MapleStory 2 Review – Cute and Crustless
Charming, picturesque, and somehow childlike in wonderment, but with some caveats.
MtG Arena Review – The Hand that Feeds
Written for MMOGames, partially recreated with permission. My first hand leaves me awash among a handful of islands, but I find the unrelenting water to be ill-suited for the tools […]
Defiance 2050 Review – Good Enough for a Day’s Work
Money rains the sky like molten gold. Fragments of highly advanced
ships hurtling to the ground pepper San Francisco’s semi-alien andscape in bizarre, inexplicable alien tech. They’re fragments of the ark field that orbits the Earth. What the technology does is not important, that the technology sells well is.
“Minor arkfall detected,” the artificial intelligence in your mind says, “let’s go earn some scrip.”
Wanderlust – Rolling Green
Written for Unwinnable, recreated in-part with permission. Fresh from the darkness of the temple behind me, the world calls to me, far more than the old man peering curiously at […]
Art Tickles – Neither at Once
Written for Haywire Magazine. Los Santos looks magnificent from the top of Mount Chiliad. The sun sets over the ocean, orange ripples reaching inward toward silhouetted towers dotted with unfocused […]
Subnautica Review – Deeply Absorbed in Darkness
Written for MMOGames.com, recreated in-part with permission. The ocean swallows me whole, and as I sink into its depths, I wonder if I will ever surface again. It is an […]
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 […]