Neal Ronaghan
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To Nintendo fans who haven’t experienced Kingdom Hearts in its full splendor, this is an incredible time to jump in. These games are largely excellent action RPGs that are jam-packed with an out-there emotional story filled with oodles of Disney and Square Enix references. The curious thing I experienced while...
I mean, it’s a nice visual upgrade, making the HD-2D visuals pop at 60 frames per second at an increased resolution that appears to be in line with Octopath Traveler 0’s Switch 2 performance. But that’s all it is. It’s Octopath Traveler II, exactly as it was on the original...
This year’s version of Madden on Switch 2 was not made under the new regime at Electronic Arts, but with the promise of expense cuts and the pile of debt the company owes, I worry for what happens to this brand of football video game in the future. I have...
Another Eden Begins is aggressively fine. The turn-based combat features a good amount of variety, but the game’s light difficulty doesn’t make it something you really need to get that in the weeds with. The story isn’t that engrossing, but it’s not bad. I just feel like I’ve seen Masato...
Culdcept Begins is the best opportunity to experience a brand new Culdcept game fully in the west since the days of the Xbox 360 (as I said, the 3DS game came out in a post-Switch world; that wasn’t a fair shake!). It’s a surprisingly user-friendly version of a complex game...
Denshattack!
Denshattack is still overly playful, filled with a lot of delightfully bizarre moments and a wealth of gameplay twists and turns. It’s oozing with style and succeeds in driving home the lunacy of a kickflipping train home with a well thought-out arsenal of tricks and enough variety to make this...
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a bold game, whether it’s the direction of the story, the size of the world, or the stupid amount of mini-games. It’s a little bit messier than Remake, but the highs are higher. When this game clicks, it’s one of my favorite games in recent...
Yacht Club’s Gothic horror 2D Zelda game took its sweet time to come out but it’s an incredible delight.
It’s somewhat wild to me that Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch is basically the arcade version of the 2020 pseudo-NES release of Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl. They feel incredibly similar in that they’re both totally fine beat-’em-ups that are good enough to stand on their own...
ChainStaff is one of the coolest freaking platformers I’ve played in a long time. It’s just cool to dart around these vibrant levels with a neat grapple gun. It’s rewarding to toss your staff from across the screen to one shot a big enemy. It absolutely rules to throw down...
At the end of the day, I got what I wanted out of Marvel MaXimum Collection. I can play the arcade versions of X-Men and Captain America and the Avengers in the comfort of my own home. I can relive ‘90s video game rental memories with Arcade’s Revenge and the...
Monster Hunter Stories 3 tries to be an epic RPG, but it’s bogged down by so many systems and ideas that it starts to take on water as you progress deeper into it. The story wound up being a highlight, but even the streamlining of monster dens couldn’t solve the...
