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As a life-long fan of the beat-em-up genre there's just something simple and satisfying about a good brawler, letting you blow off some steam kicking ass and taking names...
While it has a slick look and strangely compelling story the elements don't quite come together
As you may assume with a Nintendo system platformers are roughly a dime a dozen and though Metroidvanias aren't as abundant their average quality has been impressive...
One of the original scandalous and exploitatively violent games on the PC an eon ago, the name Postal has a certain degree of deserved reverence...
To be clear the issues its sibling had with driver AI inexplicably crashing and taking themselves out of races remains...
My family and I have become massive fans of the Jackbox games over time, having played through each party pack at some point...
On a general level interactive fiction titles haven’t been my cup of tea...
When you’re young your imagination can truly be a powerful (and sometimes scary) thing...
What’s interesting with indie games is their consistent ability to seem familiar at first but then consistently surprise you by defying expectations...
When it comes to strategy games we’re finally to the point where the Switch has a fair amount of diversity...
Somewhat of following the general concept that anything can be reinvigorated and possibly improved with the inclusion of zombies we have Dustoff Z, which reaches back to the likes of the classic Choplifter for inspiration while throwing in modern progression and conveniences as well...
With a variety of titles proving that the tight and challenging strategy of a roguelike can make for compelling play it’s not hard to see some of Ring of Pain’s influences...
More often than not I find that I’m not much of a fan of “interactive novels” on the Switch...
Having been introduced to the Shantae series on the Switch and enjoyed the hell out of each entry thus far a throwback title sounded interesting...
We’ve been blessed with quite a variety of shmups on the Switch, and with such diversity it can sometimes be easy to assume you’ve seen it all...
There's nothing wrong with sometimes playing a game that has one core idea in place and just asks you to run with it...
While I've generally found first-person exploration adventure-type games like this to be a drag in their pacing I do appreciate that in this case the game has taken on a quasi-historic element of a member of the press chasing down the Zodiac killer to add interest...
With an interesting steampunk / futuristic look with huge skyscrapers and vehicles flying through the clouds people were excited by early looks at Cloudpunk...
Following up the previous delectable outing on Switch, CSD3 is back with a new somewhat silly story with your empire having been reduced to rubble and starting over in a food truck...
While the Metroidvania genre had at one point been thinly represented on the Switch we're now at the point where there are enough top-tier titles available that making a big splash is getting tougher...