Justin Nation's Reviews
Unsighted is interesting to me, in part because at just a casual glance, or even just a very short play session, I believe people will severely underestimate its ambition and execution...
Having spent a fair portion of my childhood playing with the cars, tracks, and quite a few playsets there's absolutely an element of nostalgia in Hot Wheels Unleashed that comes in waves and puts a smile on my face...
Beneath the veneer of this very attractive side-scrolling Metroidvania-ish action RPG beats the heart of ambition... though in measuring the results you could argue the degree of success may vary...
This is a game that really has me emotionally split in two, making it a challenge to review...
If you're a big fan of fast-moving and often intense platforming action Aeon Drive will likely have some appeal for you...
One genre that has been blessed with a wide variety of great titles from indie developers has been puzzlers...
The Darksiders latest entry has finally meandered its way to Switch to join its brothers, and the results in this case are more mixed than its predecessors...
Astria Ascending is a bit of an odd bird to me...
Cute and charming games can always be a pleasant distraction amidst the chaos of more intense action-driven games, but moreso than on any Nintendo system to date their abundance has also made standing out in the space more difficult...
Who knew that games that are heavily centered around working out math problems could at least be a bit interesting?
With its marionette characters and associated string-based challenges, rhyming narration, and a healthy dose of charm A Juggler's Tale is certainly unique...
Taking classic arcade titles and trying to give them new life in the modern era tends to be a challenge, and I’ve definitely seen both great successes and utter failures to date on the Switch...
Run-and-gun shooters were absolutely a consistent staple in the arcades and on consoles back in the day, and that puts a certain amount of pressure on developers in the current day to do anything that feels new and exciting...
While we hardcore types love our games, that isn’t to say that when confronted with examples of the silliness we regularly accept without question we can’t have a good laugh...
While I’ve been a fan of roguelikes for quite some time it’s only been in the past few years with top-tier titles the likes of Dead Cells, Hades, and more that they’ve really been catapulted into more mainstream gaming circles...
It’s always a bit tough to evaluate re-releases of classic arcade-style shooters coming to the system...
As someone who has a deep love for classic arcade titles and loves games that mix things up, in principle I'm in the target audience for Antonball Deluxe...
While I've never been much of a Dragon Ball Z fan, I had some interest in this title after playing the excellent fighting game that graced the Switch a while ago...
When it comes to management simulations there's no question that the pickings on the Switch are pretty slim, indeed, so when any new ones come along I have no doubt genre fans are immediately curious for details...
Credit to developers who do things that are just a bit different out there, but when the experience stumbles pretty consistently no amount of originality will necessarily redeem gameplay struggles...