Joel A. DeWitte
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DYNASTY WARRIORS 3: Complete Edition Remastered is a wordy title for what is the most accessible and sharpest way to play the PlayStation 2 classic. It’s a pretty good game with occasional levels of frustration and some slightly-anachronistic game design. But that’s also why it works. This...
Heave Ho 2 provided new and entertaining premises for us to play with the mechanics, sabotage each other, and broke us into laughter so hard we could barely breathe. Heave Ho 2 takes the perfect formula from the first game, and adds onto it. Sometimes you don’t need to mess...
The Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake houses a deftly created horror game. Mio & Mayu’s story is harrowing, and despite little preamble you quickly become invested in Mio’s attempt to save them from the telegraphed inevitable outcome. Entrapping spirits with your Camera Obscura is a smart design...
Dynasty Warriors: Origins won’t be a sweeping epic story that lifts you off your feet. Frankly, you probably won’t remember much of its characters and story. It’s not going to be the best playing hack-and-slash experience ever. It’s a little more forgiving than some of its contemporaries,...
Up to this point, Capcom has been churning out a prodigious number of collections, many of them a hodge-podge of different lesser-known and cult classic hits. While their choices feel more like a potpourri, Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is like slices of pizza with different toppings. It’s a...
Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is a faithful re-release of one of the seminal touchscreen video games of our time. While it can be played perfectly well with a controller, the Switch 2 version does also have mouse controls, which are a great fit for all the scrolling and planting you...
All that said, I did feel invested into learning more about the world of Cronos: The New Dawn. No, you’re not going to get a substantive exploration of the politics of pandemics or a deep exploration of human nature, but there’s enough information littered about that at least paints...
WWE 2k25 is a game with a solid, satisfying gameplay foundation, a flashiness befitting the product, and options galore to play your way. It also has game modes that aren’t all that compelling, a questionable presentation of their superstars’ appearance, a silly amount of self-importance, and a user interface...
Gradius Origins feels like a more niche collection in some ways. Fighting games are at a relatively high point in popularity, so it makes sense that the Capcom’s of the world would pump out collections of their huge library. Side-scrolling space shooters haven’t hit the same kind of...
Until Then
I’ve had Until Then stuck in my brain since hitting credits. It dredged up memories, transporting me back to my own history of youthful desperation to be heard, understood, and cared about. The undercooked mystery backdrop is a small blemish because they nailed the writing and character development....
It's difficult to express just how granular you can get with Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening. Menus upon menus to parse through and individually plucking members of my army to assign duties and work to develop into higher ranking officials have so many variables to consider that the learning curve feels...
I’d be remiss not to mention the special features, but it matches what prior collections have to offer. An art gallery, music gallery, Japanese & English versions of each game, practice modes, quick save features, and online matchmaking with the ability to play are so important anymore that they...
