Evan Norris's Reviews
While it doesn't match up with the best of the sub-genre, due to performance issues and generic designs, it provides enough exploration opportunities, deadly combat scenarios, and mysteries to satisfy hardcore fans.
Skully has some good ideas and a surprisingly moving story, yet a lot of the good stuff is undermined by inconsistent gameplay and technical issues.
One of the best games of the year and one of the better indie games of the generation.
While the series is starting to grow long in the tooth — running low on laughs and short on captivating historical personalities — it can fall back on solid mechanics, a substantial campaign, and, now, the freedom to design and share homemade maps.
Paying extra seems to be part of the package with Tennis 1920s. While the game offers accessible controls, some good-looking backgrounds, and sporadic fun, it throws up too many restrictions and paywalls to guarantee a consistently enjoyable experience.
Provides closure for a title 27 years in the making and represents yet another stout shooter on Switch.
Worry not that Konami shows no interest in authorizing a new Castlevania game, for Inti Creates has picked up the slack.
It's great news that Ultracore can now see the light of day, after 25 years in the dark.
Redux offers plenty to like for shooter fans, particularly if they gravitate toward series like R-Type.
M2 has done justice to Taito's extraordinary shooting series with Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade.
Darius Cozmic Collection Console is a nice add-on for Darius fans who've already invested in its Arcade counterpart. However, it's not an ideal substitution.
A nice add-on for franchise completionists but largely superfluous for more casual fans, especially when weighed against the strength and value of vanilla MK11.
It's a relatively short game with a modest amount of trial and error, but its mechanics, level designs, and quality-of-life features make it a must-play for shoot-em-up fans.
Due to its opaque nature and punishing action, Resolutiion will appeal mostly to fans of dangerous souls-like combat and abstruse exploration in the vein of the original NES Zelda.
Island Saver is not a good game but, considering its raison d'être, it could be worse.
Red Wings has a lot of good ideas and a strong foundation... yet poor storytelling, monotonous mission design, and unsatisfactory specialty stages ultimately drag this airborne adventure back down to Earth.
Mega Mix is a solid celebration of ten years of Hatsune Miku.
It took five years for Fury Unleashed to find its voice, but the wait was worth it.
FDG and Pixel Licker could have replicated the original Slayin experience, slapped on a new coat of paint, published on Switch, and called it a day. Instead the studio transformed the rogue-like template into a more substantial role-playing adventure complete with story, side-quests, secrets, unlockable characters, and upgrades aplenty.
The streets are paved with gold in Streets of Rage 4.