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Full disclosure, up front I’ll admit that I’ve always tended to be fond of games from the Zoink crew, in particular finding their off-beat sense of humor to be great fun...
Back in the arcades, Pang (or Buster Bros) was one of the more interesting shooters out there that did things its own way and layered puzzling sensibilities into the mix...
I'm typically pretty indifferent to lightly interactive visual novels but there's definitely a divide between those that make an honest effort to build a rich and robust narrative and those that don't...
Especially given the continued “unknown date” status of Bayonetta 3, Switch fans looking to beat or slash things up with some intense combat may be feeling a little twitchy...
Having roughly followed the long and usually pretty torturous movie and gaming "career" of this leather-clad vamp I'll admit I was intrigued to see if she could finally turn things around this time...
One problem many solid PC strategy games have had on the Switch has been trying to take what are often intuitive controls and screens from the mouse and keyboard world and trying to map them to a controller...
There's something both exciting and sometimes heart-breaking when you get to play early versions of games and get filled in on what they want to be and then see them finally released some time later...
While they got off to a bit of a slow start on the Switch, over the years survival games have become more common and some excellent examples of the genre have made their way to the system...
As a "veteran" gamer it has been neat to see some truly old school classics stand the test of time and continue to get modern incarnations...
While the Switch has finally managed to get some fighting games rolling in the more recent years, sports titles in general have been woefully few and far between...
This is one of those titles where the name of the game may lead you astray, though I will admit that it is generally accurate...
At first glance I was really hoping this would somehow be something cool like a simplified budget game in the vein of Sunset Riders, but alas, it is merely a pretty simple puzzle game at the end of the day...
This is one of those titles you run into periodically that's simply hard to wrap your head around...
Family-friendly action adventure titles have a fair amount of representation on the system, but with its cute characters and pretty basic overall controls, Kitaria Fables manages to pretty easily establish itself as a great option...
Polished budget puzzlers that come over from the mobile space are always a bit hard to judge critically and fairly when they arrive on Switch...
Budget puzzlers that, at their core, feel quite familiar in some way are a bit difficult to score...
Even when you’re talking about games that are budget-priced and for a somewhat more casual audience there can be some stiff competition on the Switch...
Pushing the boundaries to further enhance or make existing genres tends to be what indie titles do well, and The Magister definitely falls into that category for better or worse...
While in the early days there weren't many options for run and gun shooter fans on Switch, thankfully in the years since release the offerings have filled in nicely...
I’m sad to say that more often than not, on the Switch, games pushing “horror” in some way have struggled and failed in the department of delivering compelling play...