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Mass Effect: Legendary Edition

July 19, 2021May 17, 2022 ~ thealmightybacklog ~ Leave a comment

This particular review feels a bit odd to write. I’ve already written extensively about the Mass Effect games; all four of them remain amongst my favourite games of all time, and each one totally scratches the sci-fi itch that I have nagging at me all day. I wonder, then, what can I really add to … Continue reading Mass Effect: Legendary Edition

Jedi: Fallen Order

March 1, 2021May 17, 2022 ~ thealmightybacklog ~ Leave a comment

If my previous reviews of Knights of the Old Republic and Jedi Academy have told you anything, it’s that I love a good Star Wars game. However, the thing that those games have in common is that they’re part of the old Star Wars canon known as the Expanded Universe. That’s the Star Wars I … Continue reading Jedi: Fallen Order

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

December 25, 2019May 17, 2022 ~ thealmightybacklog ~ Leave a comment

I have this really vivid memory of having an intense hankering for a decent western-style action RPG in the post-Skyrim haze I found myself in after spending far, far too many hours traipsing around the freezing wastes of the Nord homelands. Almost as if in answer to my prayers, there, sitting on my shelf, right … Continue reading Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Dante’s Inferno

October 13, 2019May 17, 2022 ~ thealmightybacklog ~ Leave a comment

The mid-to-late aughts saw a swathe of games that sought to copy the stunning success of stylish hack-and-slashers like God of War and Devil May Cry; Dante’s Inferno was simply one of this swarm that was trying to ape this trend. But the thing that made the trendsetters popular is that they were both damn … Continue reading Dante’s Inferno

Titanfall 2

April 30, 2019May 17, 2022 ~ thealmightybacklog ~ Leave a comment

Titanfall is one of the games that really has never been on my radar. I’m not wild about first-person shooters, and I had a very specific set of games in mind that I wanted to play when I upgraded to current gen consoles. But I’m also a proper sucker for some deals so when Titanfall … Continue reading Titanfall 2

Mass Effect 3 DLC

December 31, 2018June 13, 2021 ~ thealmightybacklog ~ Leave a comment

From Ashes (Released Mar 2012) Mass Effect 3's first piece of DLC begins with a distress beacon on Eden Prime, back where the series started. Known for its extensive Prothean ruins; it is where Shepard first comes into contact with the precursor race through a hellish vision imparted by a beacon. This time around, the … Continue reading Mass Effect 3 DLC

Mass Effect 3

December 29, 2018May 17, 2022 ~ thealmightybacklog ~ 1 Comment

Mass Effect is a story about a hero and a chase, an exciting power-fantasy as Shepard tracks a traitorous villain across the galaxy. Mass Effect 2 takes on a far darker edge, overshadowed by the unavoidable sense of resignation that the mission to defeat the Collectors is suicidal. The move into more grim and serious territory is … Continue reading Mass Effect 3

Mass Effect 2 DLC

November 30, 2018June 13, 2021 ~ thealmightybacklog ~ Leave a comment

Kasumi: Stolen Memory (Released Apr 2010) Kasumi: Stolen Memory is part of a pair of DLC that each add a new character to Shepard’s team as well as their respective loyalty missions. Kasumi Goto is a master thief recruited aboard the Citadel; she is mysterious, naturally, but bright and bubbly - carefree and often joking, … Continue reading Mass Effect 2 DLC

Mass Effect 2

November 24, 2018May 17, 2022 ~ thealmightybacklog ~ 3 Comments

Mass Effect's defining moment for me came late in the second act, on Virmire, with Commander Shepard forced to make a tough decision upon which lives were balanced. It was an especially dark point in a story that had been, up to that point, finely balanced between epic sci-fi action and sinister undertones. Mass Effect … Continue reading Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect

November 1, 2018May 17, 2022 ~ thealmightybacklog ~ 4 Comments

The moment I was sold on Mass Effect came on Virmire. It was there, on what should have been a paradise world of tropical sun and gently lapping streams, that Shepard makes a choice. It’s not a nice choice; it’s a hard, cruel choice, one that promises ramifications that will echo through future events and … Continue reading Mass Effect

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