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Six games (woo ooo!): The Disney Afternoon Collection review

Most licensed games for the Nintendo Entertainment System were pretty lacking, but that was not the case for a series of releases based on the Disney television series Duck Tales,

By Patrick Rost

/ 28 Apr 2017

Six games (woo ooo!): The Disney Afternoon Collection review

Never let good enough be enough: Out of the Park Baseball 18 review

The birds are chirping, the flowers bloom, and the bat’s crack against a baseball rings in the rebirthing season of spring. A constant and welcome new edition of Out

By Patrick Rost

/ 17 Apr 2017

Never let good enough be enough: Out of the Park Baseball 18 review

Very clean, but never simple: Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX review

Kingdom Hearts was a communal experience for me and my friends. We played the game at the same time, and discussed various plot points and secrets at extreme length. One

By Patrick Rost

/ 28 Mar 2017

Very clean, but never simple: Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX review

Death machine, infest my corpse to be: Toukiden 2 review

Is there any more profound state of being than “hit and miss?” To not be terrible, but not great either, a dualistic order within which you can find almost the

By Patrick Rost

/ 23 Mar 2017

Death machine, infest my corpse to be: Toukiden 2 review

Meow-t of the frying pan, into the fire: Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight review

Have you ever played an old 8-bit style video game on a modern console in front of someone old enough to remember when that was the only option available? Perplexed,

By Patrick Rost

/ 21 Mar 2017

Meow-t of the frying pan, into the fire: Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight review

Roll away the stone: Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey review

Gust, the developers of the Atelier series, seem to approach each game with the same philosophy that goes into their trademark alchemy process found in each game. Taking the ingredients

By Patrick Rost

/ 7 Mar 2017

Roll away the stone: Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey review

If I had a Digimon, I’d Digimon in the morning: Digimon World: Next Order review

Digimon has always felt like the weird cousin of the monster collecting games, not quite as stylish and dramatic as its more celebrated counterpart. However, Digimon has a charm to

By Patrick Rost

/ 14 Feb 2017

If I had a Digimon, I’d Digimon in the morning: Digimon World: Next Order review

Plastic bits having nighttime fits: Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found review

Toys coming alive is somehow a consistently winning formula. Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found takes that formula and plunges it into a melodramatic darkness, pitting you against hordes of

By Patrick Rost

/ 14 Feb 2017

Plastic bits having nighttime fits: Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found review

500 Floors Above Me in the Tower of Barbs: Let it Die review

Death is scary, but it would be a bit less so if I knew I got to come back and beat up my own reanimated corpse after my painful and

By Patrick Rost

/ 1 Feb 2017

500 Floors Above Me in the Tower of Barbs: Let it Die review

Fragments so small you’ll never find them all: Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue review

Kingdom Hearts, in all its bizarre glory, has relished in the use of numbers and symbols to creep slowly towards the final story in its main enigmatic trilogy. The latest

By Patrick Rost

/ 1 Feb 2017

Fragments so small you’ll never find them all: Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue review

All of life is peaks and Shallies: Atelier Shallie Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea review

The Atelier series has become a steady source of incredibly fun JRPGs in the past few years. Routinely releasing a new game with similar but tweaked game mechanics keeps each

By Patrick Rost

/ 23 Jan 2017

All of life is peaks and Shallies: Atelier Shallie Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea review

Watch me whip, now watch me Shantae-Nae: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero review

It’s Shantae! She’s here to save the town, but the town’s problems are a little too big for her cliche genie breeches. Platforming, belly-dancing, trancing out, and

By Patrick Rost

/ 10 Jan 2017

Watch me whip, now watch me Shantae-Nae: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero review