About Kirk Hiner

Aircraft Evolution is about as arcadey as an arcade game can be. A modern cross between Defender and Time Pilot, the game puts you in the cockpits of continuously advancing planes and tasks you with making big damage on the ground below. It’s fun, but can the fun last?
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For me, JRPGs are all about the adventures, the battle systems, and the melodrama. Everything else is decoration, and that decoration can interfere with the overall experience. That’s what happened to me throughout The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III. If you enjoy the accessories, however, this game is absolutely for you.
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It’s been over a year since I demoed Sakura: Of Rice and Ruin at E3 2019, and I’m excited to see we finally have a Nintendo Switch release date. XSEED has announced that the action/simulation game from Edelweiss will be available November 10th in retail and digital editions.
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Developed by 3DClouds, King of Seas for Nintendo Switch aims to immerse gamers in “… a time of pirates, ferocious sea battles, hidden treasure and lost islands, all set in a stunning procedurally generated game world.”
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Nancy Reagan made it quite clear in my youth that I’m supposed to “Just say no.” I’m glad I succumbed to peer pressure, however, and gave Infini a try. This thematically bizarre and visually trippy game ended up winning me over as both a challenging puzzle platformer and as an inadvertent P.S.A. for my kids.
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There was a time when I’d tell people half-jokingly that the best thing about having kids is the excuse they provided for watching SpongeBob SquarePants. I now realize this isn’t true; one doesn’t need an excuse to watch SpongeBob. One also doesn’t need an excuse to play SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated.
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If you prefer for your heroes to not be so…digital, you’ll be pleased to know PlatinumGames and Nighthawk Interactive have announced The Wonderful 101: Remastered is now available physically in North America, and will arrive in Europe on July 3rd.
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Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition has now been relaunched by a new publisher, packing puzzles from various Home Sheep Home incarnations with new multiplayer content. All this considered, Farmageddon Party Edition is as clever and charming as Shaun himself.
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Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia doesn’t bother you with gimmicks to cross genres. This tactical RPG doesn’t simplify itself to appeal to casual gamers. It’s made for people who enjoy a turn-based, strategic challenge, and then it challenges them.
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You knew when you bought Animal Crossing: New Horizons on release day that it would be keeping you busy for quite some time, and Nintendo is not about to give you the summer off. On the contrary, they’ve just announced a series of free updates
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It may not include a 7″ single for Uncle Vic’s Space Invaders, but TAITO and Strictly Limited Games’ Space Invaders Invincible Collection will be bringing just about everything else to the Nintendo Switch on Sunday, June 28th.
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Railway Empire for Nintendo Switch has little interest in whether you want to play it. There’s a good sim/management game here, I just get the feeling it was developed by train aficionados who don’t want you in their club unless you’re perfectly in sync with their rules.
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Originally released in 1991, Sunset Riders is a side-scrolling action game that allows up to four players to ride, shoot, and booze their way across the wild west. And like many old westerns, it holds up very well.
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Honestly? I haven’t been happy with Super Mario Party for quite some time. This saddens me because I enjoy playing party games with my family. Can a third-party game such as Knight Squad fill that void?
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Fans who have been following the progress of Star Wars Episode 1: Racer on Nintendo Switch can officially restart the countdown. Aspyr has announced the new release date today via Twitter.
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Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition is just that. We all know how it took nearly two years and a massive fan campaign to get its initial U.S. release, and yet here we are—10 years later—looking at the third version of the game. Is it worth another quest across the Bionis on Nintendo Switch?
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If you’re a Nintendo gamer of any duration, you’ve surely come to accept that we’ll always lag behind the other consoles graphically. And yet if there was a way to make the Nintendo graphics just a tick better, would you try it out? That’s what Marseille is hoping with their mClassic graphics processor.
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If, like me, you’ve ever watched Les Miserables and thought, “You know, this would be a lot better with fewer songs and more turn-based battles,” then you’ll be pleased to hear that CE-Asia and Azure Flame Studio are bringing Banner of the Maid to Nintendo Switch in 2020.
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