Reviews

As a “lost chapter” restored, Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution has to balance the reality of being a 20-year-old game that’s also polished and updated to modern sensibilities. It falls short …
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It’d be easy to take as gospel the statement that “The Bubsy games are bad.” People say they’re bad, sometimes frequently and loudly, so it must be true. Perhaps it …
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VARLET is billed as a “school life RPG,” and I’m obviously too far removed from that life to find it terribly interesting—even with the turn-based battles against everyone’s negative emotions.
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Even though Wild Hearts S sat in our review queue unclaimed for weeks (usually a sign that a game is nothing special), my wife and I haven’t been able to …
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We’re only a week into the 2025 NFL season, and we’ve already had a player ejected for spitting on an opponent. So, the big question for the Switch 2 release of Madden NFL 26 has to be whether players can spit on Dak Prescott. “Spit’s in the game,” right EA Sports?
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Herdling is an indie title for the Nintendo Switch that involves shepherding large, furry creatures through various terrain to deliver them safely to their homeland. If that sounds like a …
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Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is a direct sequel to 2019’s Daemon X Machina. Don’t worry about that, though.. These games may have stories, but they’re not about them; they’re about mech combat. And on that front, Titanic Scion delivers.
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Discounty is a cozy management game in which you move to a new town to help your aunt run a little grocery store. A day in the life of Discounty is quite busy, but is it fun? Let’s open shop and find out!
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Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo is one of those indie games that manages to feel both familiar and completely fresh at the same time. The player takes on the …
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I love that gamers in 2025 get an adaptation of a relatively obscure 1982 anime. I love that it actually incorporates cutscenes from that anime. I don’t love the game itself, but I like quite a bit of it, so let’s tune in to Space Adventure Cobra – Awakening.
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The Wizard of Bug feels like a game I might’ve reviewed for the 3DS eShop in 2015. Yet, here we are in 2025, and this “stimulating brain-bending puzzle adventure” is …
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The world is going to end in 168 days. Bad news, right? Not to the Shuten Order. They seem to be welcoming it. But then their leader and founder is murdered, apparently by one of his top ministers. You know this because you were that leader and founder.
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I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the next STORY OF SEASONS game would be a remake of Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar because I view it as one of …
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Is This Seat Taken? is an indie title for the Nintendo Switch. It features logic-based puzzles set in a super-cute, top-down world. The goal? Place people with specific demands into …
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KEMCO has returned with a new adventure for retro JRPG fans: Astral Takers. This release was developed by VANGUARD, the company who earlier this year gave us Dragon Takers. We weren’t fond of that one, but are happy to say Astral Takers fares better.
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9th Dawn Remake is an action RPG developed and published by Valorware. This title packs a punch for one or two players in an expansive open world. Between dungeon crawling …
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Football Mini Stars is an action sports title developed by Inlogic Software and published by Silesia Games. I don’t mind the occasional sports game here and there, even though it’s …
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It’s time to take a stroll around Davy Jones’s locker room (his actual locker is way deeper than you want to go). The title here tells you the basics; you sink and then restore power. Simple, really, but far from easy…and that’s where the fun begins.
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