Review by Matt S. I’ll play basically anything pinball. It’s something I’ve grown up with my entire life and to this day I love quality pinball action. The Nintendo Switch is well served there – even if you ignore Zen Studios’ brilliant Pinball FX3, there’s niche stuff like Zaccaria Pinball,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Earlier this year we reviewed a Chinese-developed tactics JRPG, Banner of the Maid. Set during the Napoleonic period, Banner of the Maid follows the story of Napoleon’s sister, Pauline, as she leads her armies into battles that are very reminiscent of genre classics like Final Fantasy…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Some developer decided to release Snakes & Ladders on the Nintendo Switch at the same time that Nintendo released its own 51 Worldwide Games (or Clubhouse Games, depending on where you are in the world). That was a very silly thing to do. Sure, Snakes &…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Just to be upfront about this: 51 Worldwide Games (it’s called Clubhouse Games in other markets, but this review will hereafter refer to it by the European/Australian title) has one big weakness: it lacks the AI to challenge people that are good at the respective games…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I have fond memories of playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles on the Nintendo GameCube. It wasn’t the deepest game by any means, but it was a four-player action-JRPG, and it made great use of the GameCube-to-Game Boy Advance cable to give everyone a “two-screen experience.” The…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’m going to go out on a very controversial limb here and say that minigolf is so much better than actual golf. Minigolf focuses in on the part of the golfing experience that is actually enjoyable – i.e. putting a ball in a hole – while…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Takahashi Tetsuya, the director of the “Xeno” series and the head of Monolith Software, seems to have two themes that he loves returning to in his work; the conflict between the artificial and the biological, and a Nietzschean love of rebelling against “God”. There’s the famous…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. I’m a firm believer that games should be diverse, and often I’ll refer to the “flavours” of games. Some games are sweet, others are spicy, some are rich. In line with this metaphor, Arrest of a Stone Buddha is very singularly bitter. As with other bitter…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. After 15 years, Nintendo is finally preparing to release a new entry into its amazing board/card game compilation series, Clubhouse Games. To be titled “51 Worldwide Games” Clubhouse Games brings together a range of old favourites, such as Chess, Poker, Bowling and Blackjack, along with a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Publisher, eastasiasoft, and retailer, Play-Asia, have partnered up to announce Idea Factory’s Moero Crystal H for western markets on the Nintendo Switch. One of the more… risque games that Idea Factory have produced (and that really is saying a lot), this is a dungeon crawler with…
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