Justin Nation's Reviews
The thing I tend to love most about indie titles is their ability to surprise with remixes of gameplay elements you’ve never seen before...
When I think of games that heavily involve crafting my mind usually goes to survival titles, a genre I’ve struggled with though there have been some exceptions to the rule...
Rolling onto the scene and feeling like the marriage of Super Monkey Ball, a futuristic racer, and an exercise in calculated risks and insanity, Super Impossible Road certainly makes an impression on Switch...
Whenever you see a sequel to a title that showed promise but just didn't quite put everything together the first time there's a mix of excitement and dread...
Oh, Sam & Max, I simply can't resist your weirdo humor, references, and charm...
I don't doubt that trying to craft games that blend sci-fi concepts with some Lovecraftian horror elements can be a real challenge when also trying to make the experience coherent... that said, even with that caveat in mind, Transient is an odd bird...
While there are many excellent story-driven titles in the Switch eShop, the tendency is more usually on grand tales or bold accomplishments than fleshed out characters that feel authentic...
Having never played the original, but certainly having played my fair share of old-school adventure titles, Beyond a Steel Sky definitely has an authentic feel consistent with the classic era but with some more modern trappings...
With its interesting mix of both naturalistic and harshly sparse aesthetics, a slowly-unfolding and somewhat sad story of a young girl and her very distracted mother, and unusual and stealthy puzzles Ever Forward does make an impression...
When you’re looking for something to kill some hours on a budget it’s really easy to appreciate the ability of the indie gaming space to deliver some fun on the cheap...
While there have been quite a variety of point-and-click adventures on the Switch to date, they’ve mostly been of a more humorous nature...
While word games of this sort are probably better suited to play on a mobile device, when the challenge is there and the price is at least reasonable it's hard to begrudge a title like Way Forward...
As someone who has taken my family to Disney World annually (sometimes more than once) for the past 16 years (in fact, we just returned this past weekend, love the holiday decorations) I absolutely have a love for the magic of Disney and its characters...
While the genre struggled in the early days on the Switch, the beat-em-up has proven to be alive and well on the Switch, including some titles I'd consider genre-defining that have arrived over the last 2 years...
This is just one of those titles that’s hard to describe in a way that gives it justice, a sort of retro-looking twin-stick slasher/shooter adventure that has some RPG elements, and will involve you needing to periodically do some intense dodging...
There's no doubt that releasing a 3D platformer on a console that Mario built (and currently has quite a few titles out on as well) takes some guts, and while Mail Mole can't be considered up on the high tier that franchise occupies it also has some charm and mass appeal that help it to be at least notable...
This is simply an odd title that inspires some feelings of nostalgia for early 3D platforming, which can be a good thing, but that also then feels weirdly out of place as a new game on modern consoles...
Possibly one of the more unusual titles I've played in quite some time, Little Bug mixes together sometimes-tricky platforming, some physics-based elements where you're slinging yourself around, and an unusual story involving a girl trying to track down the elusive cat spirit she encounters and calls Roadkill...
Conceptually this is simply a cool idea, offering a mix of a traditional bowling game with a sort of a stripped-down dating game...
This is simply one of the more unusual puzzle-oriented games I've played in quite some time, and that's both a good and bad thing...