Justin Nation's Reviews
The Sniper Elite series has always been an interesting red-headed step-child off to the side of the FPS genre...
While I’ve never been super serious about playing pool it is a sport I’ve enjoyed in quite a number of pool halls and friends’ homes over time...
As time has gone on the first-person shooter genre has gone through quite a lot of changes and evolution, generally moving from simply being all about blowing through hordes of enemies and trying to add in either story elements or genre mixes to help it become a bit more elevated...
With the global pandemic just now reaching a full year since it was first discovered Five Dates is a bit of a quick turnaround marvel, looking to capitalize on an opportunity to make a rom-com-styled game in the days of Covid...
Memorialized in books, movies, and television shows, the space race is one of the most significant triumphs of both science and human will ever...
As you may know by now if you’ve read quite a few reviews I generally find narrative games to be less-than-stellar more often than not...
It's always nice to see new takes on trending genres, and Unhatched has jumped into the fray with its own flavor variation on a deck-building strategy game...
Multiplayer brawlers, no doubt inspired in part by the tremendous success of Smash Bros, are pretty well a dime a dozen out there including on the Switch, driven mostly by indie offerings both ambitious and humble...
Indie horror titles have a tendency vary wildly in their quality, often being built with a focus on jump scares over playability or a cohesive game experience...
Oh man, I do try to be open minded about games for all audiences and at all budgets even but when you hit a game like this it's hard not to hear the record scratch sound in your head...
Puzzle action games can and have come in many forms, though I don't think I've ever seen any go to the degree of simplicity seen in Linelight...
The rise and fall of music titles and their mainstream popularity has always been a bit interesting to watch...
Once again the My Universe series delivers a more casual and kid-friendly take on games, this time with a restaurant experience that falls somewhere between Diner Dash and Cooking Mama, though in general without the associated pressure...
There are sometimes games you run into that can be a bit perplexing, that take a chance to combine genres or elements into a new experience that has merit but at the same time you can't help but question who it's really for...
So, though the racing genre has slowly become better represented on the Switch there are still some obvious gaps in the portfolio...
Games like Replica, where the entire game experience roughly revolves around you working with someone else's phone are interesting as a different and very modern form of a puzzle game...
On a general level I'm a huge fan of procedurally-generated content...
I'm all for games that provide a solid experience regardless of how minimalist a way it may be pulling that off...
While it has been a pretty long time since the genre was even remotely in style I’ve always been a fan of the hard-boiled noir detective story...
It's always interesting to run into indie games that are a bit of a surprise and while it is by no means perfect or likely a game for everyone Battle Hunters was precisely that for me...