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It feels like forever since we all saw SkateBIRD shown off in 2019. Those cute little avian creatures riding around on skateboards were a surprise of the show for me, and I have been waiting to get my hands on Glass Bottom Game’s adorable take on Tony Hawk. Time to...
When it comes to metroidvanias, I have always been a bigger fan of the “Vania” part of the genre. I do like Metroid, like every other sane human out there, but the open-ended Castlevania games have always fascinated me more than anythingelse. Mostly because those were mainly released when I...
I am starting to like the concept behind publisher Ziggurat Games’ vision. Their whole schtick is to revive long forgotten franchises from twenty, thirty, or even forty years ago by remastering and re-releasing them to modern platforms. One of the most notable titles in their portfolio at the moment is...
If there is one game that perfectly encapsulates the meaning of the expression “don’t judge a book by its cover”, it’s Ultra Age. At first, the game presents itself as something so unbelievably janky and poorly presented, I was immediately thinking to myself: “this is gonna be one of those...
I’ve been a fan of the Cruis’n franchise ever since they released Cruis’n USA on the Nintendo 64 back in 1996. Sure, it might not have been to the most glamorous game, or even have had great gameplay mechanics (they were atrocious), but something about its insane, high-speed action...
It’s been a really good time for the fast paced first-person shooter with some of the best in the genre coming out in recent years. DOOM Eternal, Quake‘s surprising remaster, and the recently released Deathloop being just some stunning examples to come out over the past year or so. I...
I grew up in a pretty conservative household where everything I watched or listened to had to be approved by my parents. I wasn’t even allowed to watch Harry Potter as a kid, which was a pretty big deal to miss out on as a child of the 90’s. The one...
Garden Story
I don’t know if it was my poor understanding of how Garden Story was described during a past Nintendo Direct, or maybe its art style, but I somehow walked into this game expecting something similar to that of Stardew Valley. Instead, to my surprise, I was presented with a 2D...
NBA 2K22
I try to see myself as a hopeless optimist, but with the NBA 2K games, I have to act as a realist. I know Take-Two won’t stop adding a crap ton of microtransactions and annoying amounts of product placement into their flagship sports title. They don’t care about the bad...
Deathloop was a surprise announcement during the E3 conference in 2019. It was originally set to release in 2020, but thanks to COVID-19, it was delayed well into 2021. I’m a massive fan of the Dishonored series, so hearing that Deathloop was developed by Arkane Studios and utilized the Void engine...
I’ve mentioned in the past that I’m a big WarioWare fan. Whenever Nintendo announces a brand new system with a hardware gimmick, I immediately start to think how the WarioWare franchise will be able to take advantage of it in order to create something even wackier and more creative than...
The Artful Escape was announced a whopping four years ago during Microsoft’s E3 2017 presentation. Four years! I can’t believe how long it took for the folks at Beethoven & Dinosaur and Annapurna Interactive (a publisher I still have largely mixed feelings towards in terms of their library) to deliver...
