Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
Control the agile Specter Knight in a prequel to 2014’s popular indie hit Shovel Knight, that was released on about as many platforms as the original Doom. Kidding aside, Shovel Knight was a revered game and for good reason. The series is seeing two releases on Switch at launch, one being the $25 Treasure Trove which is the most complete version of Shovel Knight available as it includes the ...[Read More]
Super Bomberman R
Bomberman has been out of action for a half decade or more depending on how you count, but as a franchise, it’s been around for over thirty years — thirty-three in fact, as the box art proudly depicts. Despite that impressive duration and being released on numerous platforms I have owned over years, and hearing good things from a couple of my friends, I never played a Bomberman game un...[Read More]
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands
Ghost Recon Wildlands offers an interesting juxtaposition of tactical shooter and almost arcade-like sandbox action that’s best played with friends cooperatively. In January, I attended a press event during which I for several hours in solo and co-op, and came away intrigued. That article complements this review nicely, and I would suggest reading it first before this one. Anyway, while havi...[Read More]
Shardlight (iOS)
A year ago, Wadjet Eye Games’ point and click adventure Shardlight came out on PC. I wrote a preview and a review at the time, with the gist being that Shardlight was a great game. Unfortunately, one storage array failure later, those articles don’t ‘pop’ as well as they used to with assets gone to the abyss, but, the words themselves hold true. Anyway, as we’ve seen ...[Read More]
Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey
The Atelier series has been around for a long time, and I have played several of them over the years. With Atelier Firis, Gust takes the series in a more open world direction, and I have to say it’s been the most enjoyable Atelier game that I have played yet. The adventure begins in a small town, Ertonia, that exists inside a cave. Players control Firis, a girl with a unique ability to locat...[Read More]
Skylanders Imaginators (Switch)
Last October, the latest entry in the annual Skylander series was released — Imaginators. This year, the only console Skylanders we’re likely to see is the re-release of that same game for Nintendo’s new Switch. Skylanders Imaginators on the Switch is nearly identical to the game released in October, and to that end, I’ll rely on Nathan’s review at the time to cover t...[Read More]
Torment: Tides of Numenera
When I think of the word ‘tide,’ I imagine oceans, and to some degree that’s relevant with InXile Entertainment’s new game, Torment: Tides of Numenera. Reason being, as someone who has little to no experience playing isometric RPGs, much less ones based on tabletop success, Torment awashed me in a tide of content and options. It’s both thrilling and nigh overwhelming ...[Read More]
Tank Troopers
Tank Troopers is a simple, cartoony-fun $8 eShop title for the 3DS that offers a basic single player experience and support for up to six players in local wireless multiplayer. Tank Troopers is not trying to be a system seller. It’s a basic game that’s actually pretty fun if you know what to expect. Well, here’s what not to expect: any kind of story or deep gameplay mechanics or ...[Read More]
Sniper Elite 4
Over ten years in, the Sniper Elite series continues to evolve, maintaining it’s intriguing WWII sniping gameplay and increasingly large maps and freedom of choice. I remember Sniper Elite back at probably E3 2005 or maybe 2006, and a friend and I couch co-oped through the entire campaign on the original Xbox on what might have been the hardest difficulty. It took us a long time, but it was ...[Read More]
Beavis & Butt-Head: The Complete Collection
Uhhh… this doesn’t suck. Beavis And Butt-Head was a series I only knew of by extension when it first aired in its original run from March of ’93 to November of ’97. I didn’t have cable TV back then, but had several friends that talked about the show. I remember playing an old Windows game where you spit loogies (Virtual Stupidity) from the top of the Highland high sch...[Read More]
Nioh
Team Ninja’s Nioh is a rousing Souls-esque experience with a dark samurai storyline. In some ways it’s a significant departure from what we’re used to seeing from Team Ninja, and it’s to their credit that the game has turned out as impressively as it has. There’s no doubt that From Software made waves with Demon’s Souls several years ago, and each successive rel...[Read More]
Divide
Divide is an isometric sci-fi adventure game with action elements that, while rough out of the gates, has righted its course significantly in a short time thanks to several patches. When I first got a glimpse of Divide in December, it reminded me of one of my old favorite games that I was actually re-playing at the time — Crusader: No Remorse. Taking an isometric perspective for game design ...[Read More]