James Cunningham's Reviews
It's hard to talk about Mothergunship without mentioning Tower of Guns, but seeing as that was my go-to game for four months straight, I can't really consider that a problem.
Tempest 4000 is the final Llamasoft Tempest and an incredibly strong game to go out on.
Octohedron is an incredible pure-platforming challenge designed with endless creativity.
Zero North Zero West is an amazing vacation into the unknown.
While it's a bit creaky around the edges at times, Sairento VR‘s ninja action is truly fantastic when it gets moving.
Iconoclasts is an amazingly well-done game that never settles down for more than a minute, effortlessly switching from one challenge to another and never letting the player get too caught up on an area.
While InnerSpace struggles a bit on the technical side of things, the core game is a wonderful flight though worn out but still beautiful sci-fi landscapes.
Floor Kids is, at its core, Tony Hawk-style action where the beat is the rail and the dance moves string together into one long trick.
Tenta Shooter is a perfectly decent bullet-hell arcade game with a simple mechanic that provides nice flexibility in both score-chasing and surviving the levels.
Okami was a high point of the PS2 era, fusing its action to an incredible art style that was years ahead of its time.
While it takes a bit to open up, Sky Force Reloaded kicks in nicely once you've got a properly powerful ship and a nice selection of medals to chase after through its wide variety of levels.
Desert Bus VR is deeply tedious but that's the whole point.
Basically, Rive is pure 16-bit action from back when console games were still balanced between the arcade and more modern-style adventures.
Spintires: MudRunner doesn't make a lot of sense on the surface.
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is wonderful, strange, scary, sad, creepy, startlingand cute in equal measure.
While Megaton Rainfall may have bitten off more than it can chew in regards to the stage it takes place on, the alien-fighting action is a fantastic spectacle.
Raiden V is a good, solid shooter and it helps that it's got the power of its heritage to draw on.
Axiom Verge was already one of the best Metroid-style games in years and it lands on the Switch like it belongs there.
SteamWorld Dig 2 is a huge, expansive and utterly fantastic mining/platformer, with a great variety of challenges and plenty of tools to attack them with.
An Oath to the Stars is a fairly basic bullet-hell shooter, colorful and packed with swarms of firepower, but it never really takes off.