Game Reviews

With so many good fighting games coming out recently, it’s easy to forget about the classics. Of course everyone knows Street Fighter, but what about Fatal Fury, King of Fighters, and my personal favorite Darkstalkers? Capcom and SNK’s rivalry over the arcades is personified in the SNK Vs.

With their sense of adventure and potential danger just over the next hill, winter sports like snow skiing or snowboarding have always appealed to me, but as I’m not a fan of cold weather my enjoyment of these sports has come vicariously through spectating. I hoped Terje Håkonsen’s

It seems we’re getting a ton of visual novel remakes these days, from Steins;Gate having an anime-centered current gen iteration with Elite to early 2010s visual novels like Jisei getting an HD re-release. Next on the block is ROSEVERTE’S How to Take Off Your Mask Remastered, which

Long are the days gone where 3D platformers dominated the gaming space. They were the first real genre that got me into video games, around 20 years ago. First, it was Crash Bandicoot, then Spyro, then eventually Ratchet and Clank, and Jak and Daxter. These games all have a special

“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.” ― H.

It’s hard to believe I never played the first Atelier Ryza game despite it grabbing as much of my attention as any other unique-looking JRPG with an anime aesthetic would. While I was admittedly reluctant to get into a series with twenty-plus games under its belt, when the sequel

It seems like the popular thing to do the last few years has been to revamp arcade games and put them in a compilation with a couple of reworks and tweaks. For a lot of games it has brought new life to the work, with recent standouts such as Disney’

Begin your adventure, progress until you die, repeat until bored — that’s how I treated roguelites in the past. For some reason, they’ve never appealed to me, but for so many others they’re the genre of choice. Which makes Curse of the Dead Gods extra special; why did