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It has been interesting to watch how the various players in the puzzle game making space have differentiated themselves...
It’s weird how at times in certain genres when it rains, it pours, and exploration-based discovery titles are currently out in force...
The point-and-click adventure has been around since roughly forever and the sort of renaissance the genre has enjoyed over the past few years, care of indie developers, has thoroughly proven it can still have legs...
As a classic arcade shooting fan the Metal Slug series has always had a place in my heart for its intensity, variety, and explosive fun...
Ah, there’s just something fun about a crazy shooting arcade throwback, and while saying DnJ gave me a few Narc flashbacks in some respects (don’t get too excited)… this doesn’t get to those heights but it has some common DNA at least...
Decent budget puzzlers are pretty common on the Switch so any factor that can differentiate is a boon...
I tend to have a love/hate relationship with retro throwback games of various kinds...
While there’s no doubt that the likes of Celeste and Super Meat Boy tend to steal the spotlight when it comes to challenging platforming, some smaller titles have managed to make an impression as well...
While interactive fiction doesn’t tend to suit my tastes most of the time there are instances where I can at least step back and acknowledge when something a bit more special comes along in the space...
Very simplistic budget games that come from the mobile space and are designed to use touch controls are sometimes tricky to evaluate fairly, often having working but wonky controls if you want to play the game in docked mode...
There's a difficulty in evaluating games that are budget-friendly that don't play it safe but don't quite get everything together...
While I typically look to games to provide some action and excitement there are sometimes games that come from less hardcore roots that can still be very entertaining...
People familiar with my tastes from my many reviews are likely well aware of my love for more unusual fare, so with that in mind I found Sludge Life to be a bit of quirky fun...
Over my time playing games on the Switch I’ve become a sort of connoisseur of weird games, enjoying the unexpected journeys they tend to take you on...
In the budget space I always like to see developers attempting to do a little more to help juice up the experience, something that I'll at least give the people behind Justin Danger for attempting...
Oh, the mixed feelings when I saw this title...
Since tower defense games are represented quite well on the Switch at this point, both in terms of quantity and quality, breaking into the space to make a splash can be a challenge...
Storytelling can take place in a wide variety of forms, and the breadth of games with a focus in that are on the Switch has been quite remarkable...
Classic puzzlers of all sorts are on the Switch, but while the style of play in Long Ago is fairly well represented, with you needing to collect all items with an increasing number of complications in a minimal amount of moves, to its credit none has quite this sense of style...
A Little Lily Princess is a bit of a different flavor from the typical visual novel I've checked out on the Switch, in this case being a bit of a period piece with you playing the part of a young lady trying to make her way in a girls boarding school...