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December 2, 2025

Review: Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeons (PC)

Bubble Bobble is one of the greatest games ever made, and it’s also my go-to game when I’ve been asked about my favourite game of all time. Taito’s certainly done some interesting things with the Bubble Bobble IP over the years, and while a lot of the spinoff games have been excellent – I’m thinking titles like Rainbow Islands, Parasol…

Nintendo Switch/Reviews

Review: Demonschool (Nintendo Switch)

I first heard of Demonschool about three and a half years ago, during the PC Gaming Show in June 2022. At that time, it was meant to launch in 2023. I’ve followed news about the school-life tactics RPG ever since, through multiple delays (2023 to 2024 to September 2025 to…

Review: Cricket 26 (Sony PlayStation 5)

Disclaimer: I’m making this quick disclaimer so it’s clear and up-front. I…

Review: Kirby Air Riders (Nintendo Switch 2)

Kirby Air Riders is fun. It’s not any more than that, and…

Review: Capcom Fighting Collection (Nintendo Switch)

June 30, 2022

Capcom/Fighting game/Nintendo Switch/Retro/Reviews

Capcom’s previous retro fighting game compilation, 2018’s Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, was an excellent and loving historical record of Capcom’s most valuable property. Four years later the company has done much the same thing with the Capcom Fighting Collection… but if anything I think this is the superior option…

Review: Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel (Sony PlayStation 5)

June 28, 2022

Horror/Indie/Reviews

The biggest problem with Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel is that it lacks an identity of its own. The developers are clearly fans and students of the horror genre, stretching all the way back to Resident Evil, and have done a passable job of building a warm homage to it.…

Review: Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! – The Complete Collection (Nintendo Switch)

June 27, 2022

Gamebook/Nintendo Switch/Reviews

There was a time when video games were primitive enough that a book could be a more vivid gameplay experience. For example, the original Wizardry came out in 1980, and though it’s rightfully remembered as a classic, it’s also not much more than the seemingly endless sequences of corridors and…

Review: Tales of Aravorn: Seasons of the Wolf (Nintendo Switch)

June 23, 2022

Indie/Nintendo Switch/Reviews/Winter Wolves

It has been a very long time since I last played a Winter Wolves title, but the company has been thriving for years now as one of the survivors, veterans, and legends of the indie space. The earliest game that is available on Steam was released way back in 2008…

Review: Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei (Nintendo Switch)

June 22, 2022

Idea Factory/Nintendo Switch/Reviews/visual novel

We get a lot of games, films, books, and other such media that take place during the Sengoku era. Samurai Warriors and Nioh, for example. There are endless films that depict various battles from the era. Netflix even produced a documentary, which was terrible, but highlights that the Sengoku era…

Review: AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 22, 2022

AI: The Somnium Files/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 4/Spike Chunsoft

Uchikoshi Kotaro has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the thinky game artists going around. The Zero Escape series established that reputation, while the original AI: The Somnium Files reinforced it. The sequel, nirvanA Initiative (‘A’ and ‘I’ capitalised, geddit?) doesn’t break new ground, but then again it also…

Review: Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (Nintendo Switch)

June 21, 2022

Nintendo/Nintendo Switch/Reviews

Fire Emblem and Koei Tecmo’s Musou (Warriors) formula are a good fit. So much of what people love about the Musou series (a large roster with a big variety in the characters that are available), is also something that the Fire Emblem series is popular for, and while the Warriors…

Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Nintendo Switch)

June 20, 2022

DotEmu/Nintendo Switch/Reviews

TMNT is a seriously well-established brand in 2022. However, if you weren’t there in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it’s easy to underestimate just how ubiquitous the adventures of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael were… if you were a certain age. The Turtles of that era were relentlessly marketed…

Review: Metal Max Xeno Reborn (Nintendo Switch)

June 17, 2022

Nintendo Switch/Reviews

There are a couple of different ways that you can approach an apocalypse in art. In most cases, artists depict desperately grim stuff, and that approach makes sense given that in these stories humanity is close to (or experiencing) extinction and mere survival in a harsh, traumatic world is a…

Review: Spellforce III Reforced (Sony PlayStation 5)

June 17, 2022

PlayStation 5/Reviews

Spellforce III is one of those games that, even a generation ago, would have been inconceivable as a console release. The game’s blend of RTS and RPG mechanics would have been deemed too complex for a controller to bother with, and the developers and publishers alike would have assumed that…

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