Nintendo 3DS Reviews

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux is an enhanced 3DS port of the 2010 DS original. Featuring a new character, an extra dungeon, new demons, and three additional endings, this is the definitive edition. The...

Nintendo's consoles have been known to be squeaky clean for quite some time, so it is very nice to see them branch out now and then with some more adult-leaning titles. This October AKSYS Games...

Since 1997, Culdcept has been a strategy franchise popular in Japan. North America had a taste of Culdcept in 2003, when an expanded port of the second title Culdcept Second, released on the PlayStation 2....

Nintendo's handhelds have been the last bastion for quality, niche RPG's; whether they are Japanese or Americanized they usually are amazing. Ever Oasis is another title to be proudly written on the long list of...

I've used a few game design software programs in the past. Usually, there's a steep learning curve, and it takes a while to build your first game. With the RPG Maker Fes, I made my...

Cooking Mama is a game series many DS owners are familiar with and a few remember fond memories of the charming franchise. The latest title published by Rising Star Games  - Cooking Mama Sweet Shop...

I have been a fan of the Fire Emblem series since the first entry to release in North America (Fire Emblem, known in Japan as Fire Emblem: The Sword of Flame. Since then I have...

Pirate Pop Plus is clearly a labor of love and it shows on every screen flicker. It calls back to an earlier time in gaming where phrases like "Just one more quarter!" were common and...

Chase: Cold Case Investigations - Distant Memories developed by Arc System Works and published by Aksys Games is intended to be a visual novel, and it achieves this purpose beautifully. The two main characters work...

Ninja Usagimaru: The Mysterious Karakuri Castle for the Nintendo 3DS is a pleasant game that features a bit of Japanese lore and plenty of challenging puzzles. Usagimaru has been away on a journey in the...

Monster Hunter Generations, previously known as Monster Hunter Cross in Japan, has reached North American shores this week. Nintendo 3DS players have a wonderful chance to explore mountains, plains, and find dangerous (and beautiful) monsters...

Zero Escape, put simply, is a visual novel series where things go wrong and weird pretty hard and pretty fast. It is also a series I fell in love with pretty hard and pretty fast;...

We appear to be in the decade of re-releases. A rain of HD remakes floods our systems and we shake our money at it like a new-age rain-dance. It has reached a point where Capcom...

December is somewhat known unofficially as a “dead month” in the professional reviewers circuit. Despite Christmas being around the corner, and money being flung around at profiteers in the hopes of buying happiness in the...

Oh JRPGs... you're like cider... you lure me into your sweet lair with delicious promises of comfort, laughter and an easy-going time. Then...then...then it just goes horribly wrong. All the people begin to grind on...

Rodea The Sky Soldier had a crazy development cycle. Yuji Naka finished his new game back in 2011, but for some reason Kadokawa Games did not localize it. Time has since passed, and the game...

When I was a kid I did not read a whole lot of Paddington. I checked some of the books out later, as curiosity got the best of me when I heard people talking about the friendly bear...

I love quirky, weird, and interesting games. I harken to the past generations when games were made for entertainment and not just a quick buck. Those times are almost completely behind us, but there are a...

Nintendo does the world a solid by bringing back one of the best games in the entire Star Fox series. With Star Fox 64 3D, fans of Fox McCloud and the team get a blast...

Have you ever wanted to explore a wild terrain, hunt terrifying monsters and craft armor to become a walking trophy? Then Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate from Capcom is the game you’ve been craving to play...

Smash Bros. for 3DS may be the fourth game in the series but it's the first instalment to be released for a handheld device. Whilst Smash on the go is an intriguing prospect, many gamers...

As the Nintendo Entertainment System ages gracefully into its 30s, so too does the gamer generation it spawned. So as these grown-up NES kids are making games themselves, we’ve seen a recent surge in purposely...

Spring is the air here in the Northeast. On any given weekend you can walk out your front door and hear your neighbors mowing their lawns or trimming their hedges. It's a wonderful time of...

It might have taken him longer than usual to make his platform debut but some things are just worth the wait, aren't they? Kirby is back for his 15th instalment and his first proper release on...

Blistered hands, friction burned palms and broken analogue sticks, these might not sound like the types of casualties one would expect to endure whilst playing a video game but back in the late 90s, these...

Growing up we all did it, we all played with action figures (they're not dolls, I promise!). Personally, I would dream up entire books worth of story-lines with my plastic friends: betrayals, villains, the occasional...