Mortal Shell II Review: Every Corpse Changes the Fight
Getting knocked out of a Shell still creates the sharpest panic in Mortal Shell II. One second you are controlling...
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Rayna can reconstruct the deaths of celebrated adventurers like an accountant replaying a bad quarter. Her job at Heroes Unite Life Group is to prove that fallen heroes caused their own demise, giving the company grounds to reject insurance payouts. It is an absurd foundation for a fantasy RPG, yet Ledgerbound commits to the bureaucracy with admirable discipline. The problem arrives when the Regulators, the Queendom’s strongest heroes and some of HULG’s most heavily insured clients, are killed by the invading Vacari. Rayna runs their battle through every scenario she can devise and still cannot demonstrate negligence. A trip to...

The most interesting thing Iko Uwais does in Timur has surprisingly little to do with throwing punches. His directorial debut takes the machinery of a military rescue thriller and jams a wounded family drama inside it, forcing commandos and kidnappers to share space with memories of three boys who once considered themselves brothers. Loosely inspired by the 1996 Mapenduma hostage crisis, the film sends six researchers into the Indonesian wilderness before armed men storm their camp. Commander Tobias's group murders the village head, captures the researchers, and reveals that local guides Apolo and Yoseph have been working with the kidnappers....

Rian Burman has written almost nothing, ignored his deadline, lost his girlfriend, and somehow still believes his biggest problem is writer’s block. That combination gives I Know Exactly How You Die its most useful character flaw. Rian does not merely lack ideas. He has trouble accepting any situation he cannot control. Rushabh Patel plays him as a bundle of irritation and wounded vanity. Driving toward an isolated Pennsylvania motel, Rian repeatedly calls his ex-girlfriend Sarah. His messages move from anger to apology to begging, sometimes quickly enough to expose how little his supposed remorse changes the entitlement underneath it. His...

Robert Pearson spent his youth inside one of America’s most exportable fantasies: the Hollywood leading man. Decades later, the posters remain on the walls of his Connecticut home while Robert himself can barely move through it without help. Dillon Bentlage builds Watching Mr. Pearson around that cruel discrepancy, using a vanished movie culture to ask what survives once the image has outlived the person who created it. Pearson, played by Hugo Armstrong, has dementia and relies on two caregivers working opposite shifts. Caroline (Dominika Zawada), a Polish immigrant, encourages him to revisit scenes from his old films. Miguel (Luis Rizo),...

Payton Burnham cannot stop looking at himself through other people’s eyes. Early in PH-1, the Illinois senator lies awake scrolling through social-media praise after a successful event promoting his water-safety initiative. The habit feels harmless at first, almost embarrassingly relatable. Soon, it becomes the mechanism through which his entire life is dismantled. Mark Kassen directs, co-writes with Cheryl Guerriero, and plays Payton, a politician whose polished public image already has hairline cracks. His aide Becca (Dina Shihabi) calls about squeezing another media appearance from the previous night’s momentum. His wife Catherine (Rebecca Amzallag), shepherding their children through the morning, presses...

Your butcher raises the price of meat, a strange old man suggests robbing a cemetery, and the game responds to this crisis with one remarkably permissive economy. That contradiction defines Meat Grinder: Hotdog Simulator. Its premise promises a management game where keeping a tiny restaurant alive could push its owner toward increasingly terrible decisions. Its actual systems rarely apply enough pressure to make those decisions matter. Panic Panda sets the game in Grimshore, a fog-covered town where the protagonist has purchased a hot dog shop. By day, the work is mundane. Grind meat, grill sausages, slice buns, fry potatoes, add...
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Rayna can reconstruct the deaths of celebrated adventurers like an accountant replaying a bad quarter. Her job at Heroes Unite Life Group is to prove that fallen heroes caused their...
The most interesting thing Iko Uwais does in Timur has surprisingly little to do with throwing punches. His directorial debut takes the machinery of a military rescue thriller and jams...
Rian Burman has written almost nothing, ignored his deadline, lost his girlfriend, and somehow still believes his biggest problem is writer’s block. That combination gives I Know Exactly How You...
Robert Pearson spent his youth inside one of America’s most exportable fantasies: the Hollywood leading man. Decades later, the posters remain on the walls of his Connecticut home while Robert...
Payton Burnham cannot stop looking at himself through other people’s eyes. Early in PH-1, the Illinois senator lies awake scrolling through social-media praise after a successful event promoting his water-safety...
Your butcher raises the price of meat, a strange old man suggests robbing a cemetery, and the game responds to this crisis with one remarkably permissive economy. That contradiction defines...
Rayna can reconstruct the deaths of celebrated adventurers like an accountant replaying a bad quarter. Her job at Heroes Unite...
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