Justin Nation's Reviews
OK, so I’ll admit it, games that do something weird to combine elements I know and love tend to catch me by surprise and can make me inflate my scoring to go with that feeling...
As someone who grew up in the original days of the Game & Watch devices there's absolutely a sense of warm nostalgia that comes with the sights and sounds they produce...
Having originally checked this out in Early Access on PC, and being impressed by many facets of the game from its look to its roguelike sensibilities, I was thrilled to see it arriving on Switch...
With the world of OS Omega being within the computer realm, somewhat reminding me of one of my all-time favorite movies, TRON, OS Omega had my interest on a core level...
There's no doubt that at this point taking things in new directions or presenting them in uncommon ways is one of the best ways to differentiate yourself in a crowded eShop...
First-person perspective absolutely brings you into the action, so when it's applied to genres that haven't usually been played that way the results can sometimes be exciting...
While they weren’t initially very well-represented on the Switch, in the past 2 years the Metroidvania genre has been thriving thanks to a wide variety of indie titles...
As a relative newcomer to the musou style of play, where you'll often feel like you wield almost god-like power slicing through entire squads of enemy fighters with repeated swipes of your sword, I'm by no means a ride or die proponent of it...
One genre that’s lacking in depth and variety on the Switch has definitely been fighters...
I’ve continued to be impressed with the strides the FMV game genre has made since its more humble CD-based beginnings...
The Darius series has been one of the consistently challenging and impressive arcade classics that has evolved while retaining its core charms over the years...
When bringing back any game from the past for another look the prospects will always tend to be dicey, at best...
Simulations can be a tricky business on consoles since they typically feature more complex controls better suited to the PC, but the ones that get it right are sometimes a real treat...
While I genuinely tend to love games that are weird and funky physics games, at times, can be a blast there are times when those unusual charms just aren't enough...
With visual novel-type titles that limit your interactivity and the ability to greatly alter the outcome of the story I think people are always going to have differences of opinion...
As always the folks at Lightwood Games have managed to find a different way to stimulate word puzzle fans' brains while keeping within the confines of their minimalist but consistently functional framework...
There are many games I'm nostalgic for from the early days of arcades and then others that I acknowledge but, for whatever reason, never really appealed to me much...
While it was a very early arcade-style game, and thus had a relatively simple premise, Lunar Lander at the time was pretty challenging and interesting...
Mobsters fighting an alien invasion? Sure, OK...
Building on the core gameplay of the first Terra Lander, the sequel tries to up the ante by adding some new elements...