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I've never hidden my general disdain for the rise of the "Souls-like" sub-genre and for me Hellpoint is a terrific illustration of the types of games that have taken on that moniker...
This is one of those games that feels odd to play since it's almost like it transports you back to another era in gaming, in this case the earlier days of 3D platforming and adventuring...
Having played so many games on the Switch it's always important to be mindful of the fact that there are many flavors of games for many different types of gamers...
Roguelikes have exploded in popularity in the past few years, with games like Dead Cells and Hades showing the way the last 2 years in how to make top-tier mainstream titles in the space...
As a huge fan of roguelikes and someone who appreciates games that can bring people together I’ll come out and say I have mixed feelings on this title, though as a whole I think it gets more right than wrong...
Hey, hey, hey... it's time to make some ca-raaazy money... Well, or not...
Operating somewhere between a visual novel and a classic adventure Dry Drowning is a bit of an odd bird...
Before they became Blizzard and released the likes of the WarCraft and Diablo series, among others, the folks at then Silicon & Synapse created a diverse set of 3 very different titles that showed they were set for greatness...
As a huge fan of weird and funky games PUSS! certainly has elements that give it appeal...
Inspired by the spirit of Shakespeare’s Renaissance England, Astrologaster features a unique pop-up book art style, choral verse that tells the story of your character “Doctor” Forman and his patients, and use of the stars to try to help guide your patients through problems both medical and interpersonal...
Challenging platforming is most definitely a thing, with titles like Celeste and Super Meat Boy leading the way in defining how to do "brutally tough but generally fair" with terrific core mechanics and smart level design...
With a style falling somewhere between modern endless runners and classic arcade action, Speed Limit sports pretty intense and unique gameplay on the system...
Absolutely inspired by the 8 and 16-bit eras and the likes of the classic Castlevania series, Cathedral should be quite good at scratching the old school Metroidvania itch for genre fans...
Perhaps it's me, and I'm just an impatient gamer, but this is one of those titles that simply takes too long to get off the ground and even when it did the story threads weren't enough to justify too much generic gameplay...
While there has been a whole series of conversions of the fighting games from the Neo Geo Pocket, and many have been decent, until this point none of them quite felt worthy of more broad support than folks looking for some nostalgia...
While arcade-style shooters don't necessarily need to have a great deal of variety in order to be interesting I'd say the rule would be the simpler your game systems are the more flavor you'll need to include in order to sustain interest...
While the Switch is still criminally under-represented when it comes to racing games genre fans shouldn't leap at #DRIVE thinking it'll slake their thirst for a game from that genre...
Ah, the wonders of the eShop of today versus the Nintendo marketplace just a generation or two ago...
As a die hard twin-stick shooter fan it's both a good and bad thing to check out new entries to the genre on Switch...
Having missed out on the original, though certainly having heard its praises, I walked into Little Nightmares 2 with next to no pre-knowledge aside from knowing to expect a creepy tone...