Justin Nation's Reviews
There's no doubt that, especially at this time of year, the darker and more funky art style of Tandem is able to catch the eye...
Budget puzzle platforming feels like one of the toughest general genres to have a breakout hit in on the Switch, and a big contributor to that is the sheer force in numbers already available...
With a visual style somewhere between Tim Burton and the characters in Don't Starve, there's a timeliness to the creepy general vibes Jars gives off...
A side-scrolling action platformer where you play as a member of a squad of vampires, ripping through stages and enemies on the way to tough boss fights? It makes for quite the elevator pitch...
You’ve got to respect a development team that takes on a well-known casual card game and decides to swing for the fences to make as feature-rich a version of it as possible...
While the original YouTubers Life was certainly novel there was just something about it that felt more one-dimensional to me overall so it didn’t quite click for me...
One of the things I try to do when playing some indie games on the Switch is to identify with what I assume is the target audience and try to view the game through that lens as much as possible...
Watching a game of soccer who can honestly say they haven't taken a moment to contemplate how different the game would look if played as a 1-on-1 or 2-on-2 match between alpacas? I know I have...
Just call me a black sheep, but until I played this third entry in the Crysis series it never really clicked for me...
The second in the released Crysis Remastered Trilogy, for me this sequel plays very similarly to the original, and that's both a good and a bad thing...
Even having played a ton of arcade shooters over time I’m still fascinated periodically when I run across ones that I’d somehow missed over the years...
When you tread into the puzzle space with anything that remotely looks Tetris-ish you're unfortunately going to invite some level of comparison to it...
Part golf game, part puzzler, A Little Golf Journey is hard to put in a pre-defined box...
Maybe I’m just a sucker for a regular stream of puns when they’re dangled in front of me often, but having played quite a number of point-and-click adventures on Switch that started strong but then lost steam, Inspector Waffles managed to be an entertaining treat...
Having generally been a fan of the Jackbox games, and this series, since the start it's always interesting to see how each new pack ends up playing out...
When people think of tactical strategy titles, the gold standard set by the likes of the X-Com series and some refined tactical RPGs come to mind...
The renewed popularity in recent years of point-and-click adventures has been great to see, though certainly people who've hoped to see games that have a more serious tone have likely been a bit disappointed...
I'll freely admit that survival games don't tend to be one of my favorite genres, but having played several that even I have found compelling and agreeable (for a number of reasons) I wouldn't say I have an inherent bias against them either...
It's always interesting to see developers take some pretty big swings for the fences, trying out new variations in play style to forge a path of their own...
This is an odd one that initially filled me with hope, but then had enough small disappointments pile up that it slowly lost its luster...