Edie W-K
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Card Shark is an intriguing little narrative set in 18th Century France that stands out right away as something different. In this rags-to-riches tale, you play an unnamed and mute tavern worker who gets taken under the wing of the mysterious ‘Comté de Saint-Germain’, a master cheat at cards. Together,...
Wii Sports, despite being simple in premise and not really a hot contender in discussions of the best games for the Wii, was nevertheless the greatest selling game on the console ever. It has sold over 82 million copies worldwide, more than double the number of the runner-up, Mario Kart...
I am more conflicted about Chinatown Detective Agency than I have been with a game in a very long time. It’s a mystery story that relies on your own investigation skills, which is an incredibly effective mechanic, and has gorgeous character illustrations and detailed pixel art. I wanted to love...
Norco
NORCO is a point-and-click mystery that calls itself a “Southern gothic” tale, and it wears that label on its sleeve. It’s set in the real-world town of the same name, located just 30 minutes from New Orleans, USA. To its North-East lie lowland swamps, and back in the bad old...
Monark
Monark is a JRPG set in a high school where the protagonist and a posse of other teenagers must protect themselves from demonic creatures. The teenagers fight by partnering themselves with demons themselves, and forge bonds with each other as they get stronger. The game is ripe with themes of...
Shin Megami Tensei V, or SMTV for short, is the most high profile release the series has ever had, period. Up until now it has been one of those series that, while being popular in Japan, was still a niche interest here in the West. I am reminded of the...
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, which will henceforth be referred to in this review as BDSP, has been long-awaited by fans. I count myself among them – Pokémon Diamond and Pearl was my very first Pokémon generation, so I am very attached to it. However, that doesn’t mean...
The Mario Party series, to date, has a combined 70 boards and almost 800 minigames. You’d think we’d get remakes and compilation games more often, but Mario Party: the Top 100 for the 3DS is the only one we’ve gotten – and that was just minigames. We never really needed...
Nintendo has been keenly showing us trailers for Metroid Dread ever since they announced it earlier this year. They even went so far as to create a whole series of “Dread Reports”, providing a retrospective look at the Metroid series and how it all connects to this newest title. It...
Rogue Lords is exactly the kind of game we love to watch crop up around October. Hiding behind this somewhat generic name is a turn-based roguelike that holds all the makings of a perfect Halloween game: It’s got a gothic, Dark-Ages setting full of vampires and witches, it’s got famous...
As much as it’s great to see video games become big, expansive experiences that last 50+ hours, it’s always nice to return to a delightfully simple game like WarioWare. It’s a series that specialises in microgames – games so short that they can’t even be called minigames. This is its...
We Sonic fans have a complicated relationship with nostalgia. We will freely admit to anyone that the 3D Sonic games on the whole are pretty bad, and yet we also claim to love them. It’s not just that we are remembering the good parts; the bad parts are often a...
