Justin Nation's Reviews
With it’s very retro pixelated look you could walk into Olija expecting a similarly old-school experience, but you’d be wrong...
Right out of the gate I was honestly a bit nervous with the look and feel of TOHU, concerned that it would go firmly down the cute and quirky road but come up short in terms of variety and challenge...
Both stealth games and cyberpunk theming have been pretty popular in more recent years, and Disjunction does an admirable job of bringing together these two great tastes to make something pretty appealing, even if its stealth segments can’t quite stay fresh over its handful of hours...
I always get a bit nervous when anything, whether in its own marketing or by players, gets described as Souls-like since for me that generally points to a measure of tedium and some frustration...
With the rise of popularity and quality in roguelikes across the board in the past year or two the bar has been raised with expectations and unfortunately I consider Sword of the Necromancer a casualty of that shift...
Harkening back to the classic 16-bit days there's a familiar flair to Golden Force that works pretty well...
Regardless of how I feel about the game's overall funky mechanics and technical quirks at times, Heaven's Vault deserves credit for putting effort into building a bit of a different world that you'll need to endeavor to explore and understand...
While most people first think of LucasArts classics when waxing nostalgic over the days of point-and-click adventures past, the foundations of the genre were typically focused more on fantasy and adventure than plentiful silliness...
In the follow-up to Chains of Satinav the Dark Eye series takes a bit of a different path, or in this case multiple paths, when it comes to the story being told...
There's not necessarily anything wrong with more casual and newbie-friendly games that are lacking in complexity...
Looking and often feeling like a game made in an earlier and simpler era, The Unexpected Quest would best be characterized as a very simple and watered-down RTS title...
A glimpse at the trailer for Redout: Space Assault certainly shows promise, delivering some solid space shooting visuals and a great sense of scale as well...
OK, so there are just games out there plain determined to run a singular idea into the ground and for me Balancelot falls right into that category...
When it comes to beat-em-ups the Switch has really fleshed its line-up out since the early days, which generally makes it tougher for new titles to make a strong impression with something new...
As a huge fan of arcade twin-stick shooting action I feel like I'm generally hard to surprise when it comes to new releases in the genre...
Since I'm a fan of both music games and those that have some quirk Tadpole Treble Encore fits pretty nicely into my wheelhouse in general terms...
Games aren't always about high-stress situations and challenges, sometimes you're just looking for a way to kill some time while not having to expend a great number of brain cells or substantial effort...
OK, so in the indie space there's gotten to be a pretty large gap between experienced but still small teams of developers toiling together and individual and somewhat green developers going solo...
This being my first foray into a AAA title ported to the Switch that's only playable streaming from the cloud, Hitman 3 definitely leaves me with mixed feelings...
Games that are expressly made for tablets and are suited to casual players are always tough to review fairly for a dedicated console like the Switch...