A Pretty Broken Adventure

Toem 2 ratchets the cozy gaming up to 11 and plays like a relaxed tourism adventure

The Sinking City 2 has made big changes in the hopes of capitalizing on the untapped potential left to float in the void in the first game. A better, more interesting protagonist; a revamped and easier to parse investigation system; and better-paced missions might help this eldritch sequel rise above clever curiosity for fans of tentacle-tinged horror and into must-play territory for everyone this time around, so long as it’s not held back by the underwhelming combat and puzzles that nagged the previous game and don’t seem to be fully solved here just yet.

Creator Charles Cecil says the emphasis is on 'what Broken sword is' rather than 'what it can be made to look like'.

If you grew up playing NES games, Game Boy games, or similar games from that era — if you remember spending an entire afternoon stuck on a single screen until you figured out the trick to moving forward — Mina the Hollower is aimed squarely at you. I've still got plenty of questions about the back half of this thing, but after several hours with the early game, I'm fully hooked and am prepared to blast through the rest without stopping to ask when it drops on all platforms on May 29.

Pokemon Winds and Waves launches next year, and to ease the wait, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have released a new behind-the-scenes video highlighting a crucial part of the game's identity: its soundtrack.As Pokemon games have grown in scope, so too have the production standards for them, and for Pokemon Winds and Waves, a full orchestra was brought in to record the main theme. This session with the Tokyo-based NHK Symphony Orchestra was recorded, with the video below showing off just how many musicians were involved with this single piece of the new Pokemon soundtrack. Incorporating stri