John Schutt

GameSkinny • 11th September 2022

Metal: Hellsinger Review — One Helluva Tune

Metal: Hellsinger has one mission: deliver Doom-quality FPS action to a heavy metal soundtrack featuring some of the biggest names in the genre. I’m happy to report that it succeeds with flying colors.

GameSkinny • 18th June 2024

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Review: A Light in the Darkness

The conventional wisdom about FromSoftware DLCs has always been that they’re the best version of their respective games. That they refocus and elevate the content that came with the vanilla experience, address concerns, and add the best bosses, weapons, and spells available anywhere in the game. Does Shadow of the Erdtree do all of that for Elden Ring? A huge, emphatic yes.

GameSkinny • 22nd April 2024

Tales of Kenzera: Zau Review — A Tale of Two Worlds

Telling stories is one of humankind’s best ways of passing on our history and can be especially helpful when dealing with grief. That concept is at the core of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, a Metroidvania that does double duty as an action game and an emotional journey to overcome the grief of losing a parent, inspired by its lead developer’s own experience of losing his father. It mostly succeeds at both.

GameSkinny • 22nd February 2024

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth Review — Ahead on Our Way

To say my feelings on Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth are complicated is to do a disservice to the concept. There’s so much here I love, and the number of times I found myself yelling at the screen, hoping that the characters heard me is too damn high.

GameSkinny • 23rd October 2023

Ghostrunner 2 Review: The Second Blade Cuts Deeper

In Ghostrunner 2, you’ll cut through thousands of sorry souls with a single, futuristic katana, cyberninja your way through a variety of carefully curated combat and parkour arenas, and generally be an absolute badass. And because this is a sequel, everything is expanded.

GameSkinny • 20th September 2023

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Review — Finally Chippin' In

Almost three years after its initial release, the Phantom Liberty expansion acts as a capstone to a long and arduous journey for Cyberpunk 2077. The DLC introduces new characters, locations, mechanics, and more, as well as the massive 2.0 update that addressed many of the community's concerns. Phantom Liberty is Cyberpunk 2077 at its best, despite some smaller issues getting in the way.

GameSkinny • 7th September 2023

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Review — A New Flame

To say Armored Core 6 is a triumphant return for the greatest mech game franchise ever is an understatement. It’s the culmination of years of development on the series and all the lessons learned from the last 10 years of the Soulsborne genre. AC6 is the ultimate compromise between the clunky, heavy games of the series’ beginnings and the neck-snappingly fast gameplay of later titles.

GameSkinny • 27th July 2023

Remnant 2 Review: Blasting Through the Apocalypse

Like its predecessor, Remnant 2 is much more fun than it has any right to be. And like any great sequel, the latest in the series uses everything that works about the original, irons out a lot of what doesn’t, and adds a ton of additional, amazing content no one was expecting. Remnant 2 eschews much of the opening buildup, includes some Rogue-lite elements to progression, and tells a more coherent story.