Reviews

A first-person shooter that prides itself on its complex yet beautifully fluid mechanics, Severed Steel moves at a rapid pace. It opens on a wordless cutscene that introduces your protagonist, …
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“Mom, can I have Animal Crossing?” “No, we have Animal Crossing at home.” Animal Crossing at home: Hokko Life. This meme was running through my head while I played Hokko …
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Cat Maze is part platformer, part RPG. It’s an exploratory adventure full of hidden pathways, strange enemies, and cute animals who help along the way. Although it appears simple at …
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What fun! Arcade Paradise is a wonderfully weird little pile of several minigames stacked on top of each other. But first, it’s a business simulator where you run a laundromat.
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Bear and Breakfast is a game that I’ve been keeping my eye on for quite some time. Its visual style and gameplay instantly connected with me when I saw the …
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If you played Trails of Cold Steel III and IV, The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero does a great job of filling in some of those story gaps. If you’ve never played a Legend of Heroes game, it’s a great place for JRPG fans to start.
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As if spiders aren’t scary enough, this game gives them guns and lightsabers! 

SipderHeck is an ultra-fast-paced brawler where you fight it out as a spider, against spiders, in physics-based …
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Sometimes it’s nice to know what you’re getting. After Wave: Downfall makes its identity clear in the opening sentence of its Nintendo product page. It’s “an arcade shooter where the …
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I’ve played a lot of different RPGs during my forty-plus years of gaming. I’m a massive fan of the genre and thought I’d seen it all. That was until I …
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition—the remastered version of Westwood Studios’ original 1997 adventure game—arrived on the Switch back in June. This review is of a recently updated version that patched some reported bugs and issues. Sadly, it didn’t patch enough.
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Gerda: A Flame in Winter is an interactive visual novel for the Nintendo Switch. Coupled with simple RPG elements and set in World War II, it tells the tale of …
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It’s amazing how detrimental a few bad choices can be. An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs has genuinely great comedy and a delightfully zany soundtrack and sound effects. …
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MADiSON is a first-person horror game full of jump scares. MADiSON reminded me a lot of ‘Outlast’ but had some interesting things that separated it, mostly that you are walking …
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Ooblets is a role-playing simulation game developed and published by Glumberland. This game provides friendship building, farming, and adorable dancing creatures. What more could you want? Well, more is given …
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Little Orpheus—an Apple Arcade game now remastered for Nintendo Switch—is the latest sci-fi/fantasy adventure to take us deep into the center of the Earth. Or did it? That’s what hapless cosmonaut Ivan Ivanovich Privalov would have us believe, but General Yurkovoi is not so sure.
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There are probably going to be a lot of comparisons between Animal Crossing and Disney Dreamlight Valley. And it’s not wrong, as there are a lot of similarities. But Dreamlight …
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If Avenging Spirit has taught me anything, it’s that I’ve been taking the wrong approach to my throwback arcade game collection. I’ve generally gone for nostalgia, and have now realized I should be seeking game I’ve never played before.
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What if the post-apocalypse was fun? Not the apocalypse itself, mind you, but a period after, when the survivors emerged and things were mostly OK? That’s the case with the city-building sim Before We Leave…until game-breaking bugs spoil the good times.
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