Smoke and mirrors

Setting the stage Tanya Combrinck discovers how artists build tone and weave emotion into narratives

RAIDOU KUZUNOHA VS THE SOULLESS ARMY

Japan’s modern-day shamans weave together past, present and future, via a healthy dose of folky doom

CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 is hamstrung by real-time additions to its combat system

Pondering existence with help from an assault rifle

THIS GAME IS CLAIRLY BRILLIANT