Review by Matt S. Pikmin 3 Deluxe doesn’t do much over and above what it did on the Wii U, where it was initially released (and, indeed, was one of the early-era games by Nintendo on that console). To be entirely honest I’m actually going to plagiarise my own review…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. LUNA The Shadow Dust bears more than a little similarity to one of my favourite games of all time, Gorogoa. The hand-drawn, colourful art styles and surreal, dreamlike narratives of both games are enchanting and memorable, which is why I thought I’d love LUNA just as…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. With preview embargo lifted on Pikmin 3 Deluxe for the Nintendo Switch, I take the opportunity to have a chat about the game. I don’t often get to talk Pikmin, but here’s why I find it to be a delight and a breath of fresh air…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Naveah tries to channel the same kind of melancholic mood and challenging puzzle-platformer action that drove the likes of A Rose In The Twilight and The Firefly Diary. It’s nowhere near as robust or evocative as NISA’s own efforts, but this game is not without its…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Tricky Towers has been hanging around for quite some time, but the good people at Super Rare Games have picked it up for a limited physical release on Nintendo Switch. They shot me over a copy to play around with, so here’s a video of that!…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It claims to be a “golf game for people that hate golf,” and that is a good summary of the kind of irreverent humour that What The Golf? aims for. It’s not really golf at all though. Rather it’s a silly little physics puzzle game, good…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Some indie developers take advantage of the small overheads, budgets, and team sizes that they operate with to deliver games that are creative and different. Liberated from the need to shift the kind of numbers that cause blockbuster publishers to homogenise everything they do, indies can…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Like Picross? Of course you do. “Number crosswords” as they’re colloquially known, Picross is the kind of puzzle experience that feels immensely rewarding. You finish a Sudoku puzzle and it’s just… done. Same goes for crosswords. But with Picross, you finish the puzzle, you get to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Here’s a great rule of thumb that all game developers should keep in mind: If you have something really, really good, and you would like to make it even better, add Hatsune Miku. Case-in-point: MIKULOGI takes nonograms – popularly known in the west as Picross thanks…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. It’s been a while since I last did a retro reflections, but I was recently in a nostalgic mood, so I dusted off my DSi to play some of the DSiWare titles that I found so fascinating back in the day. As a side note, it…
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