Below find reviews of all the best movies, shows, books, games, and more according to Cosmic Circus contributors and writers.
Absolum is a roguelite beat-’em-up game developed by Guard Crush Games and Supamonks and published by Dotemu. Dotemu is known for publishing fantastic beat-’em-ups such as TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge and Streets of Rage 4, and just like those games, Absolum continues the tradition of releasing games with fun and engaging gameplay. There are four playable characters, with two of them available
Read MoreWhen you fire up Pokémon Legends: Z-A, you’re immediately stepping into a world full of potential that’s trying to bring back the good old vibes from your childhood. This time, Legends: Z-A is set once again in the region of Kalos, known from the 6th generation of Pokémon X&Y. However, instead of revisiting the entire region, our playground is the big and extremely
Read MoreMany people do not realize how much anthologies are a group effort within the film industry, whether it’s Rod Serling‘s The Twilight Zone, Charlie Brooker‘s Black Mirror, Tim Miller‘s Love, Death + Robots, Marvel’s What If…?, Star Wars: Visions, and so on. Every piece of a film or a season of television requires input from an individual storyteller through screenwriting and
Read MoreThe first Hollow Knight game earned its place as one of the most exciting games not produced by a multibillion-dollar studio simply by connecting exciting combat with a world that felt too good to be true. A sequel to Hollow Knight had to be more than another upgrade. It needed to create a new identity while respecting the legacy. Now that
Read MoreThere comes a time within every couple of years of film where you get something so special, so relevant to our current moment, and so successful on virtually every front that it’s hard to believe it exists. A film where you know as soon as the credits roll, it will live on as a timeless classic, and just like with his
Read MoreGoing into Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle (that title is a mouthful, which is why it will be mostly referred to as “Infinity Castle” from now on), it was immediately apparent that the first part of a planned trilogy of films to wrap up Koyoharu Gotuge’s adaptation of his own manga series would be filled with
Read MoreProducer Francis Lawrence and J.T. Mollner’s coming-of-age dystopian survival horror-thriller, The Long Walk, has finally strode into theaters. Based on executive producer Stephen King’s 1979 novel of the same name under King’s pseudonym, Richard Bachman, the adaptation follows a selection of fifty teenage boys chosen to walk endlessly down a road at three miles per hour. In a year that includes
Read MoreThe Knightling is a single-player open-world adventure title developed by Twirlbound and published by Saber Interactive. While I describe the game as an open-world adventure, this only means that exploration and some side quests can be done out of order. This game is a charming title where it feels like I’ve been taken back in time and am playing a lost
Read MoreThere’s a particular feeling that only a certain genre of games can give you. It’s the feeling that the only thing you have to care about is the story of the game and nothing else. Sword of the Sea is another game from Giant Squid, directed by Matt Nava, that takes that feeling, creates an experience around it, and provides you
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