Rob Covell

The gameplay is pretty much what you’d expect from the genre. Monsters rush at you whilst your character automatically fires their weapons at the nearest enemy. You just need to focus on movement to get a better position and avoid damage.…

You’ll spend a lot of time jumping and grabbing ledges though, and most of the time this works well enough. Far too often though, Ludovik simply won’t grab a ledge, or jumps straight up instead of onto a box, or occasionally doesn’t jump at…

The act of actually playing through Mia and the Dragon Princess can feel a bit odd though. The pacing and tone are often bizarrely off-kilter from one moment to the next. MI5 agent Bennie can be making classically British quips only to be…

Tides of the Foscari starts out in pretty much the same way as Legacy of the Moonspell, with you having access to a new level. The green, tree-filled Lake Foscari area has you attacked by a number of nature themed foes, from caterpillars to…

I really liked these systems. They felt interesting and opened up all sorts of possibilities depending on the cards you have access to. You can change your cards as you play, not by adding cards to your deck, but by changing the attachments…

You very quickly find out that you can only hold on to certain handholds for so long, meaning you need to move and plan quickly. Suddenly, this is a fast paced puzzle game, as you need to work out how to get to the next checkpoint and make…

The story is seemingly bonkers, with you travelling on the train with your beloved, only to find a mask on the floor which you obviously put on. The next thing you know, you awaken on a beach in front of a huge mansion and are informed that…

Your mouse, or controller if you’re a maniac, rotates a disc at your end of a lane. All you need to do is match the colour on the disc to the colour of the note that’s approaching it. With the only colours being blue and red, this should be…

You work as a night guard for a museum, due to open in a few days to display the paintings of the recently murdered Malachai Grey on the island of Mirlhaven. Malachai had an impressive array of artwork of all different genres, but of…