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Extinction
Fighting enormous enemies in games has been a time-honored tradition for the whole span of the medium. There’s just something so satisfying about taking down someone who’s several times bigger than you. It makes you feel like a god, like an actual hero. Extinction looks to capture that same feeling...
We’re back in high school, and the world is in shambles. World peace has been achieved through the power and accessibility of self-help books, and then lost again to corruption and evil. Students and faculty are disappearing from the dreary halls of Water Falls High School and textbooks have turned...
The Urban Trial franchise makes its console debut on the Nintendo Switch with Urban Trial Playground. Urban Trial Playground is a 2.5D, side-scrolling stunt racer game, much like Ubisoft’s beloved Trials franchise. This iteration, the third in the Urban Trial franchise, moves the action to the neighborhoods of beautiful California. There’s...
Minit
Minit’s conceit is so simple and so straightforward, I thought I’d tire of it immediately. But I was dead wrong. What starts a little slow (and a bit frustrating) quickly turns into a fast-paced and rewarding experience that borrows as much from Super Meat Boy’s unrelenting speed as it does...
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings is the final installment of the “Mysterious” series, also making it the 19th edition of the Atelier series. Published by Koei Tecmo and developed by Gust, the Atelier series heavily focuses on the use of Alchemy. With that and the...
Clustertruck
With the Nintendo’s AAA library in a slump, and it’s indie game market in a boom period, I’m certain there are many Switch owners out there thumbing through the eShop catalog. For those people, I offer a warning: If like me, you’re the type of gamer who gets stuck in...
A mustached detective, a train named the Orient Express, and a cast of colorful suspects – if you said the recent Murder on the Orient Express movie or an Agatha Christie whodunit that would be understandable. It certainly seems what THQ Nordic thought they were doing so with their old...
Surviving Mars
When the Earth fills up with people and discarded iPhones, what will we be forced to do? We’ll head to space: the final frontier. Specifically, Mars seems like a good bet. There’s a lot of nice, red ground, and presumably, resources kicking around there – how tough could it be...
As a fan of the anime Attack on Titan, this game was an absolute must for me to pick up. With epic titan killing in all its glory, it just seemed so right. But how does Attack on Titan 2 compare to my expectations? Let’s just say, hype doesn’t necessarily...
Nintendo’s beloved pink blob Kirby is making quite the debut on Nintendo Switch with Kirby Star Allies. While Kirby’s recent handheld adventures, like Kirby: Planet Robobot have been great, the last couple console outings, like the Wii U’s Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, have been pretty disappointing. Fortunately, that changes with Kirby...
Developed by Capcom, Devil May Cry is yet again getting the remaster treatment, this time bringing it up to speed with the PlayStation 4. The series, of course, follows the son of Sparda, Dante, as he jumps, shoots, slashes, and sasses his way through hordes of demons and horrible creatures....
I never played the original Fear Effect, an Eidos series for the original PlayStation. I may lack the knowledge required to notice this entry’s thematic ties and departures from the original series. I do however recognize good games and have a long history with PC RPGs. With that in mind,...
