James O'Connor

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Nintendo’s Take On Wheelchair Basketball Is Exciting, But Slight

Game Review: Drag X Drive Drag X Drive is a unique prospect – a new launch-period game from Nintendo that centers around wheelchair basketball. Playing it requires a certain level of embodiment as you control it using the Joy-Con 2’s mouse mode, rolling both controllers across a surface to control your chair. It’s not the […]

James O'Connor · 10 September 2025

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In Herdling, Leadership Is A Selfless Act

Game Review: Herdling I’m not sure how, why, or when one of the members of my herd in Herdling died. At some point in the second half of the game I checked my herd list from the pause screen and noticed that one creature – the second one I had found in the game – […]

James O'Connor · 2 September 2025

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Eddington Finds A Way To Re-Examine 2020

Film review: Eddington 2020 – the first year of COVID lockdowns, social distancing, and global masking – was five years ago now, but the pandemic has altered many people’s sense of time in such a way that it feels much more recent. COVID-19, of course, never really went away, but enough time has passed that […]

James O'Connor · 22 August 2025

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Weapons Is A Thrilling Movie About Heavy Subjects

Film Review: Weapons At 2:17am one morning, seventeen children – all from the same third-grade class – get out of bed, open their front doors, and run out into the night with their arms outstretched. A month later, no one’s sure what happened, or where the children went, or why one child in the class, […]

James O'Connor · 14 August 2025

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A Great Nintendo Character Finds New Purpose

Game Review: Donkey Kong Bananza As I loaded up Donkey Kong Banaza – one of the two big flagship Nintendo Switch 2 launch titles, second only to Mario Kart World in importance – I wondered how Donkey Kong would fare as a protagonist. Donkey Kong’s history within Nintendo games is an interesting one – once […]

James O'Connor · 12 August 2025

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A Game About Living All Your Best Lives At Once

Review: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time – the sequel to the 2015 3DS smash hit Fantasy Life – is a game that does not force you to make choices that will define your playthrough. At the beginning of the game, you’re asked to pick […]

James O'Connor · 1 July 2025

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A Sprawling, Strange, Never-Ending Epic

Review: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy The Hundred Line is a result of the collaboration between two Japanese game directors with extremely distinctive styles and huge cult followings. Kazutaka Kodaka, best known for creating the Danganronpa series (a popular visual novel series where you solve murders and dig into a deep, strange lore) and […]

James O'Connor · 3 June 2025

A Strange, Unique Yakuza Story About Kindness And Acceptance

Review: Promise Mascot Agency Promise Mascot Agency – the new title from Kaizen Game Works, the development team behind the incredible mystery game Paradise Killer – is a true original. After being ambushed during a money drop, a disgraced yakuza lieutenant – Michi – is sent to the cursed town of Kaso-Machi to both hide […]

James O'Connor · 1 May 2025