Justin Nation's Reviews
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...
One of the things that can make it hard to fairly score and evaluate indie games is trying to figure out who they were made for and to be sure to keep that in mind...
At times there are games that I load up in my Switch that I can't really understand, either that I'm not sure what the developers goal was, or who it's really being made for, among other things...
As regulars probably know well by now, I don't tend to be a fan of visual novels and even sometimes struggle with titles that are too heavily text-driven, but when they're done right its almost impossible not to take notice...
Having enjoyed quite a number of games in this general vein with the family on Switch, I want to be clear that this is a pretty competitive space as a whole with a fair number of options to choose from...
Choosing the gaming medium in order to tell complex, and in the case of Best Month Ever, some pretty gnarly stories is definitely a double-edged sword...
As a massive fan of twin-stick shooters in their many forms on the Switch, or anywhere else, any new entrant into the arena is always met with some excitement...
As a fan of morbid humor and the movie Sweeney Todd, the devilish and somewhat brutal Ravenous Devils has some appeal to me...
In general I have nothing against a reasonably-good and pleasant little puzzle adventure that you can either run solo or share with a friend...
As long-time followers of mine will undoubtedly know, I'm a lover of games that qualify as being weird...
While my fondest memories of great Switch titles tend to focus on games that are more on the more gameplay-focused side there's something to be said for the ones that instead leave a contemplative mark...
The Switch certainly has its share of local co-op games to sort through if you like playing with your family and friends and, truth be told, in many ways my family and I have found getting new ones to be exhausting more often than not since so many of them fall into common and predictable patterns that struggle to satisfy...
When I read reviews for games like Tasomachi I often tend to wonder why smaller-market and indie games in general tend to get reviewed as if they're competing with blockbusters from genres with a much wider audience...
As a long-time fan of the Super Monkey Ball series, which I haven't had a decent fix with for a little while, Marble Maid is a title that looked right up my alley...
Among the indie games I've greatly enjoyed on PC over the years and have wondered when they would make their way to Switch, The Stanley Parable was one of my last holdouts, so I'm thrilled it is finally here...
The Sniper Elite series has been a pretty consistent source of stealthy Nazi body count accumulation on the Switch, and now that same base engine has been pointed a significantly more deadly version of that same classic threat… in the form of zombies!
This is one of those games that's frustrating because while you can see what direction it wants to head in, and the experience it is trying to deliver, it cant help but get in its own way more often than not...
When it comes to game design, I'm all about how simplicity is often the best overall goal when starting something new, especially on a budget...