Portal 2 sets a great standard for tutorials - it's funny and quick, and the patronizing nature of telling the player how to progress is explained in the narrative. Games have a lot of standard ...

Every Souls game starts off more or less the same way: You make your character, pick a class, and go through a short tutorial zone where you are given the most basic explanation for how the game works ...

Robbie has been an avid gamer for well over 20 years. During that time, he's watched countless franchises rise and fall. He's a big RPG fan but dabbles in a little bit of everything. Writing about ...

Assassin's Creed III has such a soul-drainingly boring tutorial it actively lessens the quality of the entire game - because close to half of it is effectively one big, long tutorial. It's a tutorial ...

There’s no questioning the massive scale behind Final Fantasy XV when it comes to the large open world to explore and the various gameplay systems placed behind the minute-to-minute gameplay. If you ...

Riot Games recently announced that WASD controls are coming to League of Legends as an alternative control scheme to traditional mouse-movement-based controls. To the uninitiated, this may seem like ...

In my time on this earth I’ve pledged allegiance to many masters. Learned men and women: Buddhists, dissidents, Jedi. Their words—always measured—tend to echo at critical junctures. Whenever I face ...

Tutorials are the sections at the start of video games where players are given a brief introduction to how the game that they’re about to play works. From introducing them to an overview of the plot ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Last week, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] (yes, that’s its real name) found its way to PlayStation 4. Despite working with a smaller budget, this ...