Justin Nation's Reviews
Let’s face it, making a mark with a puzzle game in the crowded Switch eShop is a bit of a challenge, and developers need to rely on a creative look, hook, or some X factor to be sure to differentiate themselves...
I tend to be up and down on more heavily narratively-focused titles, probably disliking them more often than loving them, but there have been some stand-out exceptions...
It's safe to say that at this point there's no shortage of classic shooters on the Switch, which does admittedly make it a challenge for new ones to make a splash...
Sometimes there are games you play on the eShop that give you pause, and that can be for good and bad reasons...
Casual gamers have it pretty good on the Switch, its portability and touchscreen capabilities really make it great for on-the-go relaxation...
It has been pretty fascinating to play a variety of titles from the very apparently mighty retro portable, the Neo Geo Pocket Color...
While I'm one of those people who would almost argue that there can never be enough racing titles on the Switch that doesn't mean that I'm on board with any that happen to show up...
Having been only a recent inductee into the cult of Mosou titles, while I wouldn't say I'm completely sold on the sub-genre I will agree that there's something fun to them when you're in the right mood...
As a big fan of retro arcade games, and someone who has sunk innumerable hours to continuing to enjoy them over the years, I'm always very curious about new titles that attempt to capture their feel and make a modern game that plays like one of their contemporaries...
There’s no doubt that the Switch has been a system blessed with some very strong retro representation, and a specific genre that has seen a lot of great titles come out of the woodwork has been shooters...
Having played quite a number of action platformers at this point, many on the Switch, I've begun to feel sometimes like developers are running out of new ideas...
I think among the genres of games I've generally not found to agree with my tastes, pure survival games rank pretty high on the list...
Whether it's point-and-click classic adventures or puzzle games there are varying levels of difficulty out there for folks, and that's great...
If you're unfamiliar with the Escape Room series, or escape rooms in the real world, the intention is to generally present you with diverse and pretty challenging puzzles, typically spanning a number of disciplines, that you'll need to solve in order to make your way out of the area you've found yourself trapped within...
Roguelike deckbuilding games have been quite the rage for the past few years, but not everything in the space strategy space has adhered to that hot trend...
Whoever out there would say that simple games, or at least ones that at a glance could be "casual" are always trash has obviously never played the likes of Mini Motorways...
As a fan of the previous OPUS titles, each of which offered up their own unique sort of world with rich characters and story elements to engage with, I expected something along those same lines with Starsong...
As a fan of both multiplayer twin-stick shooters and rhythm games, a title that tries to find the sweet spot where the two intersect is, in principle, a great idea...
While I've played quite a number of roguelike shooters and slashers on the Switch, I'll gladly admit that there's nothing I've encountered on the system quite like Source of Madness...
There's definitely something to be said for games that have their own unique style and point of view, and in those areas Gibbon does itself pretty proud...