About Jaime Carrillo

Sometimes, to innovate, you’ve got to take a step backward. 

In a post-Stardew Valley world, playing even stellar farming sims always leaves me at least a little cold. Concerned Ape’s …
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At this point, in this economy, many people in the workforce are familiar with being hired to do one task, only to see their responsibilities balloon into many, usually without …
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A game with pop-up storybook aesthetic with light-RPG elements and tons of platforming. Where have we seen this before?

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Spring does very little to set itself …
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Kevin Smith started his career as an indie film darling in the ‘90s, but his name stretches across all media now, including television and podcasting. Jay and Silent Bob: Mall …
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Walking simulators are an odd but strangely popular new genre, and it has perhaps its bloodiest entry yet in BE-A Walker. Granted, BE-A Walker involves much more than just moving …
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Metroidvanias: there’s a swarm of them now on the Nintendo eShop and, wouldn’t you know it, most of them are, very playable. True standouts, however, are few and far between. …
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Considering the massive influx of titles hitting the Nintendo Switch every week, it’s easy to fall in love at first sight with games, especially if their visual direction is far-flung …
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Metroidvanias are a dime a dozen nowadays, especially on the Nintendo Switch, but have you ever played one that had something to say about the gaming industry?

SuperEpic opens …
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Sparklite, even at a cursory glance, smacks of Zelda. However, the latest title by Red Blue Games for the Nintendo Switch digs far deeper than just another SNES era top-down …
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Making a game inspired by the 8-bit era seems all the rage today, but oftentimes these titles are nothing more than a shallow coat of paint on a modern title. …
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Pity, poor Digimon, having to play second fiddle to the other adorable and collectible creatures. But even more disheartening is that in the latest entry, Digimon aren’t even the star …
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How else can the decades-old farming series Story of Seasons (formally Harvest Moon) stay fresh, especially in a universe where Stardew Valley became an indie phenomenon? What about adding a …
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Nintendo systems have always been the destination for platformers, and the Switch eShop offerings only cement this idea. Button Button Up! is one of the many platformers available, and from …
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Have you ever watched one of those ASMR videos on YouTube? You know, the kind that tingles your spine and makes you feel fuzzy? Well, now there’s a game now …
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Sometimes, to innovate on a bloated genre, you have to step backward. In the case of Gato Roboto, the time warp gets positively monochrome.

Metroidvanias are plentiful nowadays, especially …
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Nicalis’s new “color matching combat game” does what many of my favorite modern titles do: “borrows ideas” while innovating with new angles.

The concept of mashing together a puzzle …
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It’s not uncommon for indie titles to pay homage to the games that made your childhood magical. It’s tricky alchemy and often misses the mark. Luckily, this isn’t the case …
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On its surface, Way of the Passive Fist screams arcade style beat-em-up. But like many games inspired by a time gone by, it’s unkind to judge things on a surface …
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