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Right off the bat, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii makes its premise as clear as the name of the game does. You’re Goro Majima, the Mad Dog of Shimano… but through the wonders of retrograde amnesia, he’s a fresh slate who’s ready to pivot to a more nautical adventure. After washing ashore from a shipwreck, our eyepatch-wearing amnesiac is rescued by a young boy named Noah and becomes embroiled in the island’s local pirate issues.
In the lead-up to the reveal of the Switch 2 (or Super Switch, or whatever your personal conspiracy theory titles it), Nintendo players have been eating WELL in 2024. From Unicorn Overlord to Shin Megami Tensei V to Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom and 1000xRESIST, it’s been a year of bangers for the little hybrid console that could. But we’re not done yet – with the end of 2024 in sight, Nintendo isn’t slowing down at all. This week marks the first release in the Mario & Luigi serie...
It’s been a long time coming, but finally a Legend of Zelda game is a legend ABOUT Zelda. Long-standing jokes about the name of the franchise aside, Link has always been the star of the show, and the “legend” about Zelda was mostly that she needed help getting out of various bad situations. Not so in The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, though – this time it’s Link who’s been lost in the line of duty, and the spotlight shifts solely to the Princess of Hyrule to save the day.
Originally released exclusively for the Switch in 2021, Shin Megami Tensei V may have been the first entry in the series many players may have even heard of. While its spin-off series Persona is much more widely known – and the two share a lot of creature and combat design – the SMT series takes things in a very different direction.
The premise of Tales of Kenzera Zau is simple at its core, but wrapped in a more complicated story: Zuberi is a young man who has just lost his father to illness, reading the last story his father ever wrote.
While Princess Peach is a fixture of the Super Mario franchise as a whole, it’s been rare for her to step out on her own — the last Peach-centric title was almost two decades ago, with 2006’s Super Princess Peach on the Nintendo DS. In 2024, we finally have a second royal outing for our peachy protagonist, in Princess Peach Showtime.
You know me at this point, dear reader – I’m well-established as Stevivor’s resident Yakuza/Like A Dragon sicko. I was introduced to the franchise through these reviews, and it’s been an ongoing pleasant surprise to find the joy in each and every one of these weird little games – and to watch as the franchise has gained increasing traction and visibility in western markets. 2024’s instalment in the decades-spanning saga is going bigger and harder than ever before, taking its story...
It’s been a banner few years for the Like A Dragon series, the franchise formerly known as Yakuza. After Yakuza Like A Dragon set up its new face, Lost Judgment dove deeper into the detective side of RGG Studios’ version of Japan, and then Like a Dragon Ishin revived a former Japanese-exclusive classic for all the world to experience.
The Pokémon franchise is so large, there’s a game for literally everything. From Picross to painting to just plain ol’ Pokédex completion, everything has had Pikachu and friends in it – though of them all, one of the most loved by fans is 2018’s Detective Pikachu, a 3DS game so beloved it spawned an honest-to-goodness live-action Pokémon movie.
With the ever-rising popularity of the Fire Emblem series, one thing about developer Intelligent Systems has become increasingly clear – it knows how to make a good strategy game.