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Isaac Davis

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Isaac Davis is a NYC writer, recovering student, and downtrodden former rollercoaster tycoon. Any leads on amusement park design work are greatly appreciated.
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Borderlands Review

  • June 29, 2019
  • Isaac Davis
When it first came out, Borderlands seemed like a bizarre video game Frankenstein: the mission structure of World of Warcraft, the loot system of Diablo, the humor of Conker’s Bad…
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  • Action

LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Team Up Review

  • November 11, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
Superheroes are no strangers to the fighting game genre. The Marvel vs. Capcom series has proven successful for nearly twenty years, and the DC heroes themselves had a recent hit…
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  • Puzzle

Doodle God: 8-bit Mania Review

  • October 20, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
I can’t shake the feeling that there’s something very cynical about Doodle God. On its face, it’s no worse than free-to-play chart-toppers like Candy Crush or Clash of Clans. Though…
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  • Puzzle

PataNoir Review

  • October 2, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
Noir film (and the games influenced by it) obviously owes much to pulp detective fiction. But one feature that rarely comes through in either is the obsession with flowery introspection.…
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  • Strategy

Lara Croft GO Review

  • September 15, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
Reducing Square Enix’s greatest hits down to single-player board games is not a formula that should work. It’s not even an idea that should cross an executive’s desk and come…
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  • Strategy

Battlestation: Harbinger Review

  • September 3, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
I have yet to determine what the titular “harbinger” in Battlestation: Harbinger actually is. There are plenty of battlestations around the map, but I’ve not seen one named “Harbinger.” Many…
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  • Puzzle

The Mystery of the Mayan Ruins Review

  • August 20, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
Despite my love of the point-and-click adventure game, its descendant genre, the “escape the room” game, has never really connected with me. There are certainly several design improvements in escape…
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  • Tower Defense

Bad Dinos Review

  • July 26, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
Bad Dinos wants very badly to be a Flintstones game. From the opening screens of the story, a family of cartoon cavemen is working their way across a prehistoric landscape…
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  • Indie

Lifeline Review

  • July 21, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
I would not have expected text-based games to make such a comeback, but here we are. Twine is becoming more and more popular with novice game developers, and the discussion…
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  • RPG

The Last Warlock Review

  • June 12, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
Turn-based strategy has entered a bit of a renaissance lately. After being almost totally sidelined by action games and real-time strategy, titles like XCOM and The Banner Saga brought some…
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  • RPG

PlanCon: Space Conflict Review

  • June 7, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
In playing PlanCon, I frequently found myself thinking of EVE Online. Though widely regarded as impenetrable to casual players, EVE makes up for it with the sheer breadth of possibilities.…
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  • Adventure

Grim Fandango Remastered Review

  • May 20, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
Fans often talk about the death of the adventure game in the late 90s, and Grim Fandango was the game that did it. Lucasarts was on a roll for a…
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  • Adventure

The 7th Guest: Remastered Review

  • May 4, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
It’s difficult to judge a game like The 7th Guest with the benefits of hindsight. Although critically acclaimed upon its release in 1993, the game is part of a genre…
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  • Action

Playworld Superheroes Review

  • April 23, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
There are very few games about play. Maybe that makes sense. The appeal of a game world is to live out experiences that one can’t in real life. Least among…
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  • Platformer

X-Men: Days of Future Past Review

  • April 13, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
The world of X-Men is an excellent backdrop for storytelling, especially in games. It has a huge array of memorable heroes and villains, a winning combination of political strife and…
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  • Action

Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Universe In Peril Review

  • April 4, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
Traveler’s Tales (now TT Games) hit upon an excellent formula with the original Lego Star Wars, which they’ve only refined since. If games like Lego Marvel, Star Wars, and Indiana…
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  • Action

Warhammer: Snotling Fling Review

  • March 20, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
Even five years after its original release, Angry Birds remains one of the seminal mobile games that marked the true beginning of the touch screen era. Of course, this has…
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  • RPG

Tap Heroes Review

  • March 11, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
Playing Tap Heroes, I ended up looking like some kind of “gamer” character in a sitcom: face contorted somewhere between bliss and frustration, body convulsing as fingers frantically mash  the…
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  • Platformer

Almightree: The Last Dreamer Review

  • March 4, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
I’ve talked at length about the problems with platformers on mobile. Virtual buttons just don’t seem to have the precision that’s required of traditional twitchy action games like Super Mario…
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  • Strategy

Evolve: Hunters Quest Review

  • March 1, 2015
  • Isaac Davis
“Companion apps” for big triple-A PC and console games are becoming increasingly common. Destiny offloaded most of its story content into an app, and it seems that every Ubisoft game…
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