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One of my favorite surprises from last year’s Brasil Game Show was Pacer. It was a clear love letter to games like F-Zero and Wipeout, and was even developed by former developers of the latter. I wasn’t expecting much from that then-unknown game, but I was greeted with a meaty...
Oddworld: New ‘N’ Tasty! is a ground-up remake of the original game that started it all, Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, which first graced our consoles back in 1997. Oddworld: New ‘N’ Tasty! was first released back in 2014, but has now finally made it to the Switch. I didn’t play New...
I’ve had my eye on Raji: An Ancient Epic ever since I first saw a trailer for it several months ago. Countless games have depicted Greek, Norse, and Japanese cultures over the years, but this is one of the first games I’ve seen that focuses on Indian culture. While I...
G.I. JOE Operation Blackout is the newest installment in a not-so-long list of G.I. JOE titles. One of my earliest childhood memories are of my brother and I hurrying, sometimes running, back home from the bus stop. Him, to watch Transformers, and me, to watch those real American heroes. From...
The Onee Chanbara franchise is a long-running series of hack n’ slash games developed by Tamsoft and published by D3. They started way back in the PS2 era as part of a series of Japanese-exclusive budget titles called Simple 2000. It’s as simple and shallow as a game can be,...
Pumpkin Jack
Halloween is near us, so you know what that means: publishers and developers will rush in order for their latest horror game to be released alongside fifteen others during that particular period. That’s how we end up getting rushed and bare bones titles like Remothered: Broken Porcelain, but also some...
Disc Room
Devolver’s 2020 has been quite good so far, much better than most publishers out there. However, I can’t help but feel that a good chunk of their releases were either simple ports of a slightly older games. Or even some other titles which, sadly, just didn’t live up to the...
Licensed games typically don’t have the best track record with providing quality content. However, some may surprise you like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, or they can be an over the top dumpster fire that ends up being endearing in a way like Fast & Furious Crossroads. Does The...
Ever since the release of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, horror gaming has never been the same, thanks to Frictional Games’ masterpiece’s then-innovative focus on hide and seek gameplay. One game that tried to capitalize on the trend was 2017’s Remothered: Tormented Fathers, a game our own Jason Palazini tackled and disliked,...
Remember Zoids? That show about animal mechs from the 80’s that never quite got to the same heights as all the other mech shows at the time? Well, the series itself may be mostly quiet just now, but the games keep rolling out every so often. This time, in the...
I’ve been a long time fan of Agatha Christie’s novels, with And Then There Were None being one of my all time favorites. So naturally, I was drawn to a game based on one of her most popular books. Add in the fact that it’s an investigative puzzle game and...
This has been a fantastic year for beat ’em ups so far. Between the release of Streets of Rage 4 and The TakeOver, as well as the fact that the brand new Battletoads game ended up not sucking, players have been spoiled with a wide variety of arcade brawlers to...
