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Fatal Fury: First Contact is still a joy to play and – I really can’t say this enough – it remains impressive that the developers were able to create such pristine fighting games on such modest hardware. With that being said, the five games Neo Geo Pocket Color games that...
Helping to set the mood is the art and music, and they absolutely nail it. The art has a beautifully savage, primal quality that vividly renders every scene in the brain. There’s some interpretation involved in it, since the characters tend to be indistinct and environments hazy, and is a...
The game plays beautifully whether you’re playing docked or in handheld mode, and has online and local multiplayer options, with an AI alternative if you can’t get a game going. The AI is robust in the decisions that it makes, and you’ll certainly find that victory isn’t a guarantee, so...
– Matt S. Editor-in-ChiefFind me on Twitter: @mattsainsbThe critic was provided with a copy of this game for review.
Two Realms is, basically, a puzzle platformer. The premise and structure is simple: you’ll wander around a little hub world, before running into someone that has a problem. You solve that problem by being transported to a series of short puzzle-platformer levels, at which point you’ll be moving on to...
Square Enix was quite strategic about the release timing of Collection of SaGa Final Fantasy Legend. The company released this late into the year so they can pick up some easy cash from the nostalgic with what is a very cheap retro collection, without too much risk that it will...
Brigandine is missing some pretty valuable features. A multiplayer mode would have been appreciated given that this is really just a glorified board game. Additionally, while I appreciate that the developer’s goal wasn’t to create a 4X, Civilization-like strategic experience, some rudimentary town-building, resource management, and diplomacy options would have...
One of the real highlights for Feynx Rising is the way the story was told. It’s framed as a story-within-a-story, as an imprisoned Prometheus relates the tale of our hero to Zeus, as the gods face their existential threat. Of course, with the Greek gods being the fickle and selfish...
Puyo Puyo Tetris is one of those genius ideas that shouldn’t work… and yet somehow does. I don’t think, prior to the first Puyo Puyo Tetris landing, that anyone thought that bringing together such disparate puzzle games as Puyo Puyo and Tetris was going to result in anything but an unsalvagable...
– Matt S. Editor-in-ChiefFind me on Twitter: @mattsainsbThe critic was provided with a copy of this game for review.
As a rule, I prefer more recent aesthetics with character design in visual novels. The shape and design of the heads in Root Double, in particular, are from a bygone era and I would have enjoyed seeing some effort to do something like Yu-No or Higurashi on PC, where players...
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate was excellent on PlayStation Vita, and it remains excellent on Nintendo Switch. There are a lot of roguelikes available on this console at this point, but there’s something about the classical elegance and adherence to genre tradition that...
