About the author: Scott Ellison II
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- Scott is a disabled Marine veteran, married to his wife Nicole and has three kids. Scott also has a full-time job with Fastly as the Manager of Tier 3 - CSE. Scott is most well-known for founding, and writing for Saving Content, but you can find his other work on G4@Syfygames (defunct) and GameCritics.com (active).
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Shovel Knight Dig Review
Sep 23, 2022
Will we ever tire of Shovel Knight games? After eight years since his debut, the answer seems to be a resounding ‘no’, and the quality has maintained. The second spinoff game, featuring a partnership with Yacht Club Games and Nitrome has seemingly struck gold. Shovel Knight has gone rogue.. like with Shovel Knight Dig, a surprisingly fitting mold for a new take on the action platformer. This entry sees the shovel-wielding hero in blue out to save the day once more, but his fondness for gem chasing is the means for progression through a hostile underground. Shovel Knight Dig is a simplified roguelike that emphasizes fun, encourages persistence, and an effervescent snack-sized adventure.
Serial Cleaners Review
Sep 21, 2022
Cleaners are everywhere, and no I don’t mean the ones doing a legitimate cleaning of crime scenes, it’s – you know – the ones that erase all traces of evidence to avoid incrimination. Entertainment and media has even begun to put them on all full display in recent years. First you’ve got “The Cleaner” nickname that AEW wrestler Kenny Omega has gone by. Then there’s the “Specialized Waste Disposal” crew that comes to clean-up John Wick’s home. Five years after the original, Serial Cleaners is a twist on the stealth genre that elevates everything about the original to be a stellar sequel about cleaning up messes, not making them.
Betrayal At Club Low Review
Sep 19, 2022
The things you end up loving the most are usually the ones you know the least about beforehand. That’s the case for Betrayal At Club Low, the first game I’ve played from developer Cosmo D, and the fourth they’ve released. Combining point-and-click adventure games with dice-roll mechanics is a flavorful mix of old and new. In fact, it reminds me of late 90s adventure games where 3D models were becoming more prominent over FMV, and excels in this awkward period of gaming, and embraces it for all its worth. Betrayal At Club Low is a bizarre and eclectic game that I can’t stop thinking about, and am eager to return to for another playthrough.
Isonzo Review
Sep 13, 2022
Isonzo is the third in a series of World War I multiplayer games from Blackmill Games that began in 2015. These historical games shine a light on the dark battles that took place during the 1910s. For the Isonzo River area, twelve battles in two years for the two sides took place, with the Italians winning most of the battles against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Isonzo as a game always impresses both in visuals and gameplay. The tug of war between both factions is evenly matched, offers the most versatility, and makes Isonzo is the best in the series to-date.
Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed Review
Aug 26, 2022
The original Destroy All Humans! really captured the “red scare” of the 1950s so well, and it’s one of those game that’s so novel it sticks with you. By the following year when Destroy Humans 2! released, I had already moved on to the Xbox 360 and never got to checking it out. Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed is a remake of the 2006 game from Pandemic, this time focusing on the 1960s and globe-trotting, offering another raucous ride with Cryptosprodium. So in playing this remake, there wasn’t any nostalgia going into it like I did with the first. As far as I’m concerned, the only “crypto” I want to invest in, is the one you play in Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed.
Like No Other: The Legend Of The Twin Books Review
Aug 25, 2022
There’s always a first, whether it be your first adventure, first game, or even your first adventure game. This is a modernized point-and-click where interactivity is key, but all of your movement is done with key presses or a joystick. Like No Other: The Legend Of The Twin Books could serve as an introduction to adventure games or just games in general. It’s a casual, but thoughtful game that deserves attention and recognition. Whether it was the art or the puzzles, Actoon Studio is as clever as they are brilliant. Like No Other: The Legend Of The Twin Books is a short yet wonderful adventure I hope we get to see more of.
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered (PC) Review
Aug 22, 2022
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but one of Sony’s best PlayStation exclusives is finally on PC. Marvel’s Spider-Man was released onto the PlayStation 4 in 2018, then Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered was included in the Ultimate Edition of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales when it launched on PlayStation 5 in 2020. This technically makes it the first PlayStation 5 game to come to PC, and it’s another monster hit. It’s been a long time since you’ve been able to play as Spider-Man on a computer, and it’s been worth the wait. Insomniac’s take on this is so brilliant and fun, exploring the duality of Peter Parker and Spider-Man that hasn’t been done before. Like what’s come before it, Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is an essential purchase if you’ve yet to try the superb web-slinging for yourself.
ROCCAT Kone XP Air Review
Aug 18, 2022
The ROCCAT Kone XP Air is expensive, and the price tag will be enough to dissuade even the most devoted to stick with what they have or avoid entirely. That said, it’s one of ROCCAT’s best pieces of hardware that’s extremely versatile and retains that ultra-lightweight frame that it’s well known for. It’s a wireless mouse that lives up to its battery life claims, and works as wired mouse in the most dire of circumstances. It’s been five months since I got my hands on the Kone XP, and the Kone XP Air just elevates the mouse game to new heights. ROCCAT’s Kone XP Air is a premium mouse with premium quality for a premium price, and worth every penny.
Cursed to Golf Review
Aug 18, 2022
Golf games, mostly arcade-focused ones will always demand my attention. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed everything from Golf With Your Friends to Neo Turf Masters, even PGA Tour 2K21, and everything in-between. Cursed to Golf is yet another golf game with a twist, it’s a dark-yet-humorous take on golf, played in the afterlife to secure your freedom. The result is an entertaining game, full of mixed emotions and numerous minor bugs that hold it back. Cursed to Golf has a great premise behind it, but it doesn’t ace the golf game and am just left ambivalent to the whole experience.
Rollerdrome Review
Aug 16, 2022
What do you think will happen in the next eight years with entertainment? Genre-defining movies, world-shaping new music, and esports on TV in the bar certainly are all possibilities. Did you guess televised deathmatches, though? Well, that’s the entertainment in the future presented in Rollerdrome, a new sport where one contestant on roller skates holding guns faces off against waves of enemies. It has a striking look, a staggering soundtrack, and a spectacular set of controls. Rollerdrome is like Tony Hawk Pro Skater but with roller skating and it had a baby with the gunplay and bullet-time of Max Payne for one of the best feeling and playing games of the year, hands-down.
Fashion Police Squad Review
Aug 15, 2022
When a game grips you from its earliest moments and plasters a stupid grin on your face, you know it’s good. Fashion Police Squad is a retro first-person shooter among a sea of others lately, but it’s unlike anything else out there. Developer Mopeful Games didn’t just rely on a fresh premise to get by, it’s backed up tight gameplay and smart writing. The fact that this is a game about correcting people’s fashion disasters is what makes it all so funny. because at the end of the day you’re not killing anyone, you’re solving crimes – fashion crimes. Fashion Police Squad gets so much right about first-person shooters without being violent or bloody, an achievement unto itself – but this is is a can’t miss title.
Cult of the Lamb Review
Aug 10, 2022
Charles Manson is famous for saying “Death is the greatest form of love.” Losing a follower is a big hit, but knowing that they allowed me to get an additional skill or unlock is all love. As someone who’s ran a cult for 50-something in-game days, I can attest to this – I never thought I’d agree with a cult leader, but here we are. Cult of the Lamb is both a game of cuteness with darkness overload, full of ambition without any of the shortcomings. The game is both a roguelike and a colony management sim, which is hell to keep things running, but it’s heaven when you’ve got it all figured out and automated most of it. Massive Monster blends two genres seamlessly and Cult of the Lamb comes together to be a cohesive whole that will have many flocking to play it.
Two Point Campus Review
Aug 09, 2022
I never went to college, but if I had, I wish it would’ve been to any of the universities I made in my time playing Two Point Campus, the sophomore entry from Two Point Studios. This is a much-improved and slightly easier entry, showing lessons learned from 2018’s fantastic Two Point Hospital, as it makes academia fun and humorous in ways you’d least expect. There haven’t been many school-focused tycoon-type games, and for that Two Point Studios excels in doing something new and different. Each level chucks expectations out the window like it was the last day of school. Two Point Studio’s brand of humor is extremely British, but even Lori Loughlin couldn’t buy the smile I had on the whole time. Two Point Campus is a treasure of a management sim you can’t stop playing, easily making it a must-play.
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