Reviews

The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak serves as a fresh start. Although some locations, characters, and references will be familiar to series fans of the Trails series, there’s very little to this JRPG that will make newcomers feel lost.
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Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior is an action-adventure game developed by Sand Door Studio and published by Quantic Dream. Its unique twist on hack ‘n’ slash is the game’s best …
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Cat Pipes is a simple puzzle title for the Nintendo Switch. It involves rotating tiles to line up the pipes within so that cats can move freely through them to …
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In my review of the original Shin Megami Tensei V back in 2021, I wrote, “…it’s been a long time since I’ve disliked the start of a game as much as Shin Megami Tensei V’s.” And yet, in 2024, I started it again. Don’t you want to know how that turned out for me?
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I really enjoy new games, and by that I mean games that have a premise I’ve never seen before. In Times and Galaxy, you play a robot whose essential mission is to…report the news. But is that enough to entertain players? Story at 11.
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Fruit Mountain is a cozy puzzle game for the Nintendo Switch. It involves merging smaller fruit to create bigger fruit until they no longer fit in the play area, all …
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In Ultra Foodmess 2, you will run, dash, shoot, and push in order to be the last food standing in 10 mini games. This was a nice change of pace for me, and since summer has rolled around, what better way to kick it off than with some party games with friends!
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Dicefolk is a roguelike strategic battling game with dice as its central combat mechanism. Is that enough of a hook to help the game overcome its pitfalls? There’s just one way to find out.
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Bread & Fred is a co-op platformer developed by Sand Castles Studio and published by Apogee Entertainment. It marks the debut title for this indie developer, presenting a fun-yet-challenging experience …
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My review of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is quite late, but that’s partially by design due to performance issues with the Switch version. 505 Games has now released a patch to address them. Did it do the trick?
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has surprised me. I inevitably reevaluate the game with each hour increase in my play activity. At the five-hour mark, I was shocked at how …
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TP Bullet is an indie puzzle-platformer from developer 9Ratones. This budget title brings 80 challenging levels to conquer in a twist on the genre that will have your brain working …
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Tales from Candleforth uses creepy, hand-drawn imagery to tell the story of a young woman searching for missing grandmother. But are the visuals and escape room-like puzzles enough to hold the attention of old-school adventure gamers?
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As a huge South Park fan who loved the last two games, I figured Snow Day would be as good, if not better, than its predecessors, Stick of Truth and Fractured But Whole. However, Snow Day is a completely different type of game all together.
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Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is a point-and-click visual novel from developer MidBoss. It comes from the makers of 2064: Read Only Memories, taking players on another futuristic journey to unravel …
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I want to be clear—the Switch port of 2018’s Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a big game, offering you options in terms of how you want to play it. A lot of options. Too many options. It becomes so intoxicated with how immersive it is that it forgets to be fun to play.
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Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is a nifty little throwback to some of the early, really good first-person shooters. For those who don’t need a Wayback machine, this game has more than just a little bit in common with Doom and Quake.
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NecroBouncer is a fun action roguelite developed by Alchemy Sheep and published by Ravenage Games. This game is on the short side, but don’t worry; there’s plenty of replayability.

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