Charlie Kelly
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Six years ago, Marvelous Entertainment debuted a new mech series called Daemon X Machina for the Switch that promised players a broad adventure full of robot customisation, a dazzling world and a memorable story. It delivered on about half of those promises. Fast forward to now, and we’ve got a...
Ninja Gaiden, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—it’s been a great year for ninja-based games, and the train keeps rolling with Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. Serving as the first title in 14 years following the last foray with Shinobi 3D on the Nintendo 3DS, Lizardcube, developers of Streets of Rage 4, bring this new fix to...
Intent on reviving their IPs, Konami has been rolling out the classics these days. Last year saw Silent Hill 2 remade by Bloober Team, surprising and delighting fans with its faithfulness, reinvention and mood. Next on the remake block is Metal Gear Solid 3 with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. The...
Drag x Drive is a new and unique oddity from Nintendo built entirely around the Nintendo Switch 2. It’s an online multiplayer game, situating players in 3v3 wheelchair basketball matches and minigames, all within an arena. Simultaneously pinnacle and anti-Nintendo design, Drag x Drive is an interesting project filled with game...
Dead Take
Dead Take is a brand new game from Surgent Studios, the developer of Tales of Kenzera: Zau. Ditching the Metroidvania and hopping into the Horror genre, the adventure covers new grounds, merging 3D exploration of a Hollywood mansion with FMV (Full Motion Video) cutscenes, interweaving an intriguing mystery story. Though it doesn’t...
PATAPON 1+2 Replay is a release that marks a bygone era. A pair of rhythm games developed by Japan Studio, a defunct PlayStation team, they’re a vital piece of the console developer’s history. Coming from a period when bountiful amounts of weirdness, creativity, and ingenious game design were coming out of...
And after all, shouldn’t we leave this world better than we found it?
If you ask anyone who owned and played their Nintendo 3DS religiously, “What is the handheld most known for?”, they’ll tell you that it was an awesome little RPG machine with dozens, if not countless, cult hits to sink your teeth into. As someone who didn’t own the console at...
Survival Kids
Ever since Konami started being in the business of making (and publishing) games again for the first time in years, following both the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol.1 and last year’s Silent Hill 2 Remake with Bloober Team, all eyes have been on them. Are they back in action? What’s next on...
Soulslikes are a dime a dozen at this point. This over-saturation was inevitable, given that games like Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls were the catalyst for this specific branch of action RPGs. Naturally, a lot of other games want a taste of this action. Over the years, we’ve had experiences that...
A fisher. A woodcutter. An artist. A farmer. A hunter. A Paladin. A hero. Fantasy Life I: The Girl Who Steals Time is the sequel to the cult-classic Nintendo 3DS life simulation game, where you can take on many jobs and live multiple lives. Now, after a few delays and a...
Ever since the ’80s, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise has been one of the hottest properties to adapt into games. Across several decades, dozens (close to 50!) of games starring the lovable crime-fighting reptiles have graced our screens. Though there have been a lot of misses in that time, there have...
