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I, for one, am shocked that Aspyr took this long to remaster Star Wars: Bounty Hunter. I wrote a while back that this game is the perfect companion piece for anyone who had previously enjoyed watching The Mandalorian (even if, let’s face it, the third season ended up being quite...
Nintendo has really been doing a lot to try to tap into the nostalgia market. More and more, we’re seeing advertising and positioning for new titles that try to capture the elements of the classic 80s vibe. You’ve got extreme commercials, merchandise that I would have actually bought as a...
Folks may never fully understand what it is to enjoy a title like Princess Maker. At its core, it’s a bizarre affair: suddenly doing a sim game where you dictate the life and choices of a young girl through adolescence and into adulthood. It’s something that, when taken out of...
Back when I first tested Anger Foot, a little over a year ago, at BIG Festival 2023, I called it ‘the quintessential Devolver Digital release”, from what little I was able to test it out: small, but over-the-top. Cartoonish, but also ultra-violent. Easy to pick up and play, but hard...
Until Then
One of the reasons that I adore visual novels is their ability to evoke emotions in ways that just hit differently than other games. With platformers, fighters, and adventure games, you get the thrill of victory and the agony of being terrible. With modern RPGs, there’s a wide range of...
Created by the same lunatic visionary behind the Yakuza franchise, the Monkey Ball franchise is one of the most iconic Sega franchises of all time. It encompasses everything the company is famous for: simple gameplay loops, color, high-octane performance, and an arcade-like mentality. It was most successful in the early...
I remember people being hyped as hell when Luigi’s Mansion 2 (originally called Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon in the West) was first released in 2013. It was a long-awaited sequel for a game that managed to stand the test of time, despite initial backlash. I did not play it back...
Destiny is approaching its tenth year as a franchise. Way back in 2014 the original game launched in a not-so-great state, but became a huge part of my life. I’ve made lifelong friends from the journey, and even though it had it’s problems it was always a good time, thanks...
MudRunner
I never actually played MudRunner, but I did put a good few hours into its successor, SnowRunner. A game I never would have imagined I would like but an addictive gameplay loop made me a fan. MudRunner VR marks the franchise’s first entry into the VR space and the results...
Ubisoft might be known in more recent years for churning out massive open-world games, filled to the brim with tall towers to scale and a myriad of points of interest to investigate, but this wasn’t always the case. Back in the early 2000’s, they published some of the most iconic...
I cannot overstate how important the gaming ecosystem of the 90s was for the current state of consoles. Fighters, JRPGs, sports games and more made their foundation here, and, for better or worse, evolved from that point. The sidescrolling titles of the 16 bit era are fondly remembered, and they...
I remember a time when Monster Hunter was that one niche-as-hell franchise by Capcom that was much bigger in Japan than the West. With the release of Monster Hunter World, the franchise entered the mainstream with a kung-fu kick. It is now, arguably, Capcom’s main franchise, with each new iteration...
