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Kirby has such a roller coaster dynamic across his various games. Sometimes he’s a ball of yarn, sometimes he’s a strong fighting machine, sometimes he spends most of his life on the back of a hamster because Kirby’s Dream Land 2 was a magnificent evolution of a franchise. Last year...
A lot of companies have tried to jump into the soulslike (I’m not going to call it “masocore”, give up) bandwagon, but very few have managed to carve a niche of their own, making their games feel like an extension to the genre, and not just some average Dark Souls...
I’ve said it time and time again that 3D platformers, namely collectathons, are some of my favorite games of all time. I can play the entirety of Banjo-Kazooie and Tooie nearly blindfolded, and will never, ever complain about the sheer amount of collectibles featured in Donkey Kong 64. For a...
When it was released back in 2019, Deliver Us The Moon was a surprising hit, with a stunning lunar locations to explore and a compelling narrative to uncover. Deliver Us Mars is the long-awaited successor, that promises to tell a much bigger story with a larger cast and take the...
Have you ever watched a trailer of a game and your first impression was that it reminded you of another very popular game? Inspiration from other games is a normal thing among artists in general, so you purchase the game hoping for a different spin on what you already loved....
To us, die-hard Yakuza/Like a Dragon fans, Ishin was like Mother 3. It was the coveted, Japan-only exclusive that sounded too good to be true, and too Japanese to ever be released in the West. I even went the distance of importing a copy of the original PS4 release of...
‘I’ve heard good things from Ubisoft Dusseldorf, fomerly known as Blue Byte, from my WayTooManyGames colleagues, namely due to their excellence in making immersive city builders, like the Anno games. As in, games where you build cities. A builder. For cities. That’s it. I’m writing this obvious remark because someone...
I’ve played a ton of point-and-click adventures over the years, but after a while, they tend to start blending together. One game that did not fall into obscurity in my mind was EggNut’s Backbone, which released in 2019. From its striking pixel art to its cliffhanger ending, Backbone is one...
I would have never guessed that a franchise like Gal*Gun would eventually have a few spinoffs under its belt that, uh… don’t look at feel like Gal*Gun. The franchise is known for its very unique take on the light gun genre, being a very “love it or hate it, we...
Akka Arrh
Jeff Minter is one of the most unique developers in the industry, namely for the fact he might actually be the forefather of indie gaming as a whole. It amazes me that he has managed to spend the past four decades pretty much making the same kinds of games, games...
I have been playing video games for more than three decades now, and the effect games have on me comes and goes. There are titles that positively captivate my attention with ideas and presentation, and ones that simply raise an eyebrow in terms of tenacity and innovation. There are games...
Elderand
Anyone ever seen Pi? The debut film from Darren Aronofsky, this movie supposedly tracks the mental decline of a gifted mathematician who seems to see and experience pi everywhere. A bunch of weird things happen, like Jewish underground groups, people from government agencies threatening harmless protagonists, and a brain on...
