Steven Scaife

The film has the knowing swagger of something on the cutting edge but none of the self-awareness to realize it’s late to the party.

The game is a compelling introduction to “pixel pulp,” though it’s a mixed success for the degree to which it leaves us wanting more.

Throughout, going through the same motions hardly dulls the sheen of Cosmo D’s latest clever and wholly invigorating gaming experiment.

‘Colossal Cave’ can hardly be called a modernization, because it would have felt antiquated even if it came out 20 years ago.

When it works, the brevity and smart constraints of ‘The Tartarus Key’ string the player along with the allure of just solving one more.