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Doo-Doo-Doo-Doooo! Mixing the gem explosions of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo with the stacking mechanic of Wario’s Woods, Treasure Stack is an intriguing puzzle game. Although there are some addicting qualities, the few elements that miss the mark hold back the experience from being the next big puzzler. Like controlling Toad in Wario’s Woods, the […]
How To Train Video Game Tropes Used as a marketing tool to promote How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World movie, Dragons Dawn of the New Riders is a licensed action RPG that plays like a simplified Diablo. Keeping its target audience in mind, New Riders is a serviceable single player six-hour adventure. Following […]
Puzzle Platforming Couch Co-op In the summer of 2018, I reviewed Pode on Nintendo Switch – you can read this article HERE as mostly everything remains the same in this PS4 version. Pode is a non-violent couch puzzle platformer built around two-player co-op. While it is entirely possible to play through the campaign solo, it […]
Free Falling Categorized as an endless runner, I Wanna Fly has the player controlling the vertical movement of a falling chick by using a single button; gameplay and control could not be any simpler. The goal is to avoid rockets, birds, asteroids, and other hazards during the free fall back to solid ground while staying […]
Twin-Stick Tower Defense X-Morph: Defense separates itself from other games in the tower defense genre in two ways. First is the incorporation of twin-stick shooter gameplay. Second is that the player is playing as the invading aliens, the bad guys, trying to take over Earth. Combined with a solid presentation and lengthy campaign, X-Morph: Defense […]
Adding RPG to WW2 Dogfights Referencing real world World War II aircraft, Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight is an unexpected quality plane fighter. Thanks to simple but engrossing RPG elements, the player always has something to do even when not shooting down the enemy out of the sky. Not truly simulation but not totally arcadey, this flight […]
Surreal Nightmare Originally created in 2004 via RPG Maker, Yume Nikki received a cult following in Japan and eventually made its way to the west via unofficial fan translation. However, I went into this Switch release of Yume Nikki –Dream Diary- absolutely blind and boy was I in for a shock. Using dark, unsettling gameplay […]
Keep This Game Unexplored The recipe for Unexplored: Unlocked Edition sounds fantastic on paper – take the procedural level generation of a roguelike and merge with twin-stick shooter combat. Like a cook in the kitchen, sometimes recipes don’t turn out no matter how great their ingredients are. The first problem with Unexplored is the misleading […]
Hot and Cold With whimsical visual splendor and gameplay built for co-op, Degrees of Separation has its heart and soul in the right place. Not an enemy in sight, the meat of gameplay revolves around solving one environmental puzzle after the other. Unfortunately, many of the environmental hazards are over designed, causing tedium and frustration […]
Watch Your Fingers Nice Slice sort of mixes the reaction based chopping mechanic of Fruit Ninja and combines it with the physics of Angry Birds to create something more satisfying that you might think. The player only controls the downward thrust of a chopping knife that waves back and forth over different foods. Chopping thinly […]
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