Justin Nation's Reviews
On a general level, though things have begun to change in this generation, it can be tough to get people who've only enjoyed AAA titles over the years to take a chance on an indie title...
This is one of those situations where marketing can backfire a bit explosively when citing the wrong popular title for comparison...
While I've played indie games with a pretty wide variety of styles and levels of quality since the launch of the Switch I can't say any of them has defied easy explanation as much as Disco Elysium for me...
Mixing together elements of a shooter, 3D platformer, and perhaps to some degree a puzzler, Bouncy Bullets 2 is a bit of an oddity...
Certainly there are plenty of 3D action platformers on the Switch, and they take a variety of forms from intense to more casual...
Tough-as-nails platformers have legitimately become a thing over the years, and in my experience with a few exceptions that break through to more mainstream success (looking at you Celeste and Super Meat Boy, in particular) people's appreciation of them tends to vary pretty wildly...
Both “wacky physics” and local multiplayer games have a tendency to suffer from people having extremely positive or negative views of them, either embracing and “getting” the style of play or likely despising it...
Contemplative games are always a bit tough to review as I've found that where you are in life and what challenges you're currently facing (or have faced in the past) tend to drive the appreciation of the stories and ideas they're trying to share...
There's no doubt that with the month of October upon us interest goes up in games that are a bit on the darker and spookier side...
Having spent far more time with Rainbow Billy than I would have expected, I’ve become a big fan of its unique mix of adventure, platforming, relationship building, and mini-game driven combat...
This is one of those titles you walk into with at least a twinge of dread as a reviewer...
Oh, the challenges of being a racing fan on the Switch...
OK, so on the one hand I'll at least admit this visual novel is at least weird enough to maybe be of some mild interest...
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...