Justin Nation's Reviews
Decent budget puzzlers are pretty common on the Switch so any factor that can differentiate is a boon...
I tend to have a love/hate relationship with retro throwback games of various kinds...
While there’s no doubt that the likes of Celeste and Super Meat Boy tend to steal the spotlight when it comes to challenging platforming, some smaller titles have managed to make an impression as well...
While interactive fiction doesn’t tend to suit my tastes most of the time there are instances where I can at least step back and acknowledge when something a bit more special comes along in the space...
Very simplistic budget games that come from the mobile space and are designed to use touch controls are sometimes tricky to evaluate fairly, often having working but wonky controls if you want to play the game in docked mode...
There's a difficulty in evaluating games that are budget-friendly that don't play it safe but don't quite get everything together...
While I typically look to games to provide some action and excitement there are sometimes games that come from less hardcore roots that can still be very entertaining...
People familiar with my tastes from my many reviews are likely well aware of my love for more unusual fare, so with that in mind I found Sludge Life to be a bit of quirky fun...
Over my time playing games on the Switch I’ve become a sort of connoisseur of weird games, enjoying the unexpected journeys they tend to take you on...
In the budget space I always like to see developers attempting to do a little more to help juice up the experience, something that I'll at least give the people behind Justin Danger for attempting...
Oh, the mixed feelings when I saw this title...
Since tower defense games are represented quite well on the Switch at this point, both in terms of quantity and quality, breaking into the space to make a splash can be a challenge...
Storytelling can take place in a wide variety of forms, and the breadth of games with a focus in that are on the Switch has been quite remarkable...
Classic puzzlers of all sorts are on the Switch, but while the style of play in Long Ago is fairly well represented, with you needing to collect all items with an increasing number of complications in a minimal amount of moves, to its credit none has quite this sense of style...
A Little Lily Princess is a bit of a different flavor from the typical visual novel I've checked out on the Switch, in this case being a bit of a period piece with you playing the part of a young lady trying to make her way in a girls boarding school...
Reskins of classic titles are both often very cool but a risky proposition in many regards when the original gameplay is left completely intact...
First glances at the pre-rendered backgrounds and plain look and feel of Beautiful Desolation brought a bit of a thrilling feeling to me as a classic PC gamer, making me hope for the likes of classic Fallout or Wasteland...
When I first saw Trenga Unlimited I got a sort of old school Tetrisphere vibe, though unfortunately that may have been setting me up for some disappointment for sure...
While I’ve generally heard good things about the Earth Defense Force series, to date it’s one that I’ve never had the pleasure to check out...
Elevator pitch time: Set off on an adventure with a party of your choosing with a wide variety of skills...