Review by Matt S. Marenian Tavern Story is basically classical Atelier but with a different name. The team at Rideon took a crack at it with Adventure Bar Story a few years ago, which showed a lot of promise but ultimately fell short of its goal. Marenian shows a lot…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There are a couple of Mordheim games on the market. There’s the really high quality Mordheim: City of the Damned on console and PC. As an exceedingly high quality skirmish tactics game made by developers that clearly cared a great deal about the source material, it…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Out Run is an arcade classic that many of us have fond memories of drowning coin after coin into, playing as kids, so it’s not surprising that an indie developer would be inspired by the game when creating their own arcade speedfest. Sadly, the nature of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Every so often you’ll come across a game that one person or another will call “unplayable” because they didn’t much enjoy their time with it. It might be that it has a graphical glitch or two that hampers breaks the immersion a little. Or perhaps it…
Read MoreReview by Tyler T. There are few game premises that are as exciting as getting to be a cat. Chris Chung showed just how fun it was to be a mischievous one with his first-person title Catlateral Damage, and now Cattails provides another take. This simulation role-playing game by Falcon…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. In the long run, Nintendo’s decision to bottleneck the Switch’s Virtual Console to three or four NES games per month did have its benefits. While the Wii and 3DS leveraged third-party Virtual Console titles to bridge gaps between first party releases, the Nintendo Switch has the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The only right way to play Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight is to play them together. Individually they’re a little limited, but taken together they’re a marvellous celebration of the incredible music that has powered so much of the tone…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. With the death of THQ, many of us who were fans of the original Darksiders and its sequel assumed that it would be the last that we saw of the series. Then Nordic Games (now THQ Nordic) grabbed the license for itself, formed up a new…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It seems appropriate that at about the same time that the (current) pinnacle of realism in video games – Red Dead Redemption 2 – is released, Killer7 would also have its long-awaited re-release. Originally a console exclusive on PlayStation 2 and GameCube, Killer7, to this day,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The main reason to buy World of Final Fantasy Maxima on Nintendo Switch is so that you can have it on your Switch. The addition of “Maxima” to the original title does denote that there’s some extra stuff that has been added for this release, and…
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