Game Reviews

There was a time when extreme sports games were all the rage. It seemed that every developer was in on the genre in some way, having some variety of skateboarding, BMX, or surfing games. Tony...

...Aaaahhh... ...Sorry! I was just thinking of back in 2015. Back when it seemed Telltale had locked down the episodic choose-your-own-adventure genre by riffing off established IPs to tell new tales within the universe. Then...

I still remember checking PaRappa the Rapper out on a demo disc shortly before it released in 1997.  I grew up with an NES, Sega Genesis, and a Super Nintendo so I was down with 2D...

There are plenty of action-platformers already in the Switch's early library. However, none have really scratched the itch I've been having for some classic Mega Man action. Growing up, I would always be anticipating a...

The Ys series is one of the most successful and recognizable of Nihon Falcom’s offerings. The series has been going strong in Japan since the late 1980’s and has been popular in the US since...

Horror is a very subjective genre and one defining example is a title known as Layers of Fear. This was an indie game from Team Blooper about art, love, life, and undying fear. Many gamers...

To say mental health representation in games has been rocky is to describe WW2 as “a minor kerfuffle that ended when America gave Japan a little bit of a slap”. Even if you only stick...

I am a relative newcomer to The Nonary Games series; I started my adventure on Nintendo's DS with Nine Hours, Nine Doors, Nine Persons and found out that I am very bad at this series....

The team at Red Hook Studios has blessed us with the first DLC for 2016's gothic Kickstarter success, Darkest Dungeon. If you haven't played the oppressively difficult core game, you can read Robert's PC review...

The Attitude Era was probably the best era in professional wrestling. Vince McMahon captured lightning in a bottle and turned that into complete ownership of professional wrestling after he purchased the WCW for a mere...

I personally became a huge fan of Obsidian Entertainment when they brought me the sequel to one of my top games of all time, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I loved being able...

In March 2017, Troll and I was released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Fans were excited about the opportunity to team up with a troll, battle monsters, and explore a new world. Unfortunately, the...

SwapQuest enters console gaming (from its mobile beginnings) and targets exactly who it is for. Swapquest is a tile-swapping puzzle RPG: it's something like an 8-bit Final Fantasy meets a sliding piece puzzle. And it’s every...

The first console that I ever personally owned was a Sega Genesis system. Since that time, I have purchased the original Sonic the Hedgehog (and its sequels) numerous times across multiple platforms (most recently for...

There's something satisfying about playing an incredibly hard game, and finally beating the level that has taken you countless attempts. Sometimes, there are entire games that rely on this feeling, such as Super Meat Boy,...

Super Cloudbuilt is a hidden gem that anyone with a love of speed and platforming should pick up on the PS4. The level design is outstanding as it continuously scales up the difficulty in a...

You’ve escaped The Inquisition and your would-be executioner, and now you’re out for revenge. That’s the basic premise of Fictorum, an action RPG by Scraping Bottom Games, which utilizes a magic based destruction system and...

There are dozens of "match-three" games similar to Bejeweled and Candy Crush in the games market. The roguelite, Ironcast, has its foundation in the classic matching style, but it adds a twist: a compelling, interactive steampunk...

I am always intrigued by how developers can take ideas and mechanics from a variety of games, and meld them together into something new and different. Severed, from Drinkbox Studios, is one such game, where...

I have been privy to many visual or interactive novels in my time and I have to say The Pillars of the Earth is one of the most well done of the genre that I...

Released back when I was a carefree child who was still at university, the original Nidhogg was accessible and yet peculiar enough to warrant whipping it out when the gaming society I was at wanted...

The Legend of Heroes franchise is one of Nihon Falcom’s most recognizable franchises (aside from the Ys series.) The character development, storyline, and mechanics of the Trails in the Sky series are some of my...

Wrestling has been around for a long time, and the games have been around for quite some time as well, some good, some bad and some excellent. Surprisingly enough, the PlayStation and N64 era had...

The Italian Renaissance is often regarded as one of the most important and creative periods in human history. The setting has been used greatly in the Assassin's Creed series, and also used as an inspiration...

Japan has known Type-Moon for almost 20 years as an organization of story-tellers. They've developed novels, manga, animes, and video games spanning many genres. Their longest lived narrative by far is the Fate/ series. Fate/EXTELLA: The...

You can’t take two swipes of the mouse across Steam without seeing a dungeon crawler. In fact, they’re everywhere! It seems that indie developers are taking the genre by storm. There’s good reason why lonesome...