A PASSION FOR ALL THINGS GAMES
A 3D auto-runner, MouseBot: Escape from CatLab is an uncomplicated on-rails platformer that doesn’t offer much in terms of variety but has approachable design and simplicity. Best played by young gamers and in short bursts, it wouldn’t be fair to call MouseBot a bad game, just a plainly boring one. Playing the role of a […]
Gutwhale is a single screened action platformer that is all about managing a limited ammo reserve while maintaining the space between enemies. This is a roguelite, since the stages are randomly generated with each attempt, but there is a definitive ending. In fact, the game can be beaten in just over one minute and its […]
Blitz Breaker is the latest in the challenging 2D platforming genre and plays similarly to any of those titles you played before. However, there is one aspect that separates Blitz Breaker from most – the simplified control scheme. Although the player can perform a low hop by pressing the jump button, this is one platformer […]
A top-down Rocket League clone, Food Truck Arena is slower paced, simplified, and much more methodical than Psyonix’s popular soccer-with-cars simulation. Just like soccer, the goal is to score a goal on your opponent. Instead of controlling a soccer player, players drive a food truck (ice cream truck, taco stand, etc) and instead of a […]
A sci-fi action platformer with a pixel art style, Metal Unit puts the player in the shoes of an anime babe wearing skin tight mech armor. Although the overall roguelite format isn’t anything new, players will stay for the wealth of available weapons and unlockable abilities. From a narrative stand point, there is a lot […]
Building from Conduct Together, a multiplayer party title geared around trains, Northplay has now graduated to planes with Fly Together. If you played Flight Control, which saw great popularity on mobile devices and even WiiWare, you will know exactly what Fly Together is all about as it features the exact same gameplay. From a top-down […]
Released in the summer of 1999, Pac-Man for the Neogeo Pocket Color recreates the arcade experience by offering players two modes of play: full screen, and scroll. Since the screen aspect ratio is rather different from the original arcade game, the full screen mode crunches the play field to fit the smaller screen of the […]
Released a few months ago on Switch, Gallic Wars: Battle Simulator is now available on Xbox One. As it plays exactly the same as the Switch version, everything I mentioned in my original article stands here. To quickly summarize, this is a weak RTS but with Roguelite properties. From a cumbersome interface, you place troops […]
A side scrolling platformer built with co-op in mind, Together can also be played solo but doesn’t have quite the same appeal. The moveset is simple – jump, attack, and roll – but each of the dozen playable characters have slightly new abilities, enough to encourage different co-op teams. Eventually you can unlock ranged attacked, […]
This week, we check out Capcom’s newest Monster Hunter title which is actually more of a Pokemon-style RPG as opposed to an action role playing game.
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