Bioware

This week on Jank, the reviews kept coming, as our pitiless judgement was applied to still more new PC games. Sin was left largely cold by the whale-based space exploration of Beyond These Stars:

The planets' lack of significance is compounded by the fiddly micromanagement needed to transfer resources from whale to planet, and although it's cool that you can run these planetary towns independently at any time (even before unlocking fast travel gates between them), they suffer from the same problem as the post-apocalypse city builders of recent years: they split your focus so much that the only workable approach is to either make them tiny and perfectly stable, or milk them dry as rapidly as possible. 

Marsh had a surprisingly good time with Hellraiser: Revival, which turned out to be more sophisticated than its teenage schlock suggested:

That Revival even gestures towards this sort of deep discussion surprised me, given that the game initially appears to be liberally doused in the Axe Body Spray stank of puerile lockerroom fantasy. Its lurid depictions of sex clubs or even private sex have an edgy absurdity to them, even before you account for the cultists and transdimensional