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Takes elements of earlier titles like Boulderdash and combines them with more modern challenging elements like you’d see in games like Spelunky
A melding of concepts and styles from monster trainers, deckbuilders, and tactical strategy titles packed into a new package that works well overall
A novel idea, mixing together chess pieces and movement with a piece-switching puzzle mechanic, but it runs out of steam
While this very casual photography adventure with plenty of cats to capture has charm, it’s also a bit thin on substance
There’s a straightforward quality to how the game has the player use deduction that could make it great for beginners, but veteran mystery fans will likely find it too stripped down and simplified
While I was hoping that the game would do more to leverage actual narrative of some kind to add interest, its different heroes and the wildly different rules of their decks and cards helps make it interesting
While there have been some great action-oriented co-op games in the last generation, Big Walk takes a big swing at throwing you and your friends into a space full of varied puzzles with little direction, expecting that you’ll work things out
One of those cases where I suppose the concept the developers had in mind is implemented reasonably well, but that it’s so lacking in overall ambition and depth that it’s hard to consider much of a game
While not all of its events are of equal quality, and without friends or family to play with it loses some appeal, it’s a decent and varied sports party game package
In an eShop swimming with pretty weak tea Stardew Valley clones, Moonlight Peaks manages to be much more than merely a goth version of a farm sim
A pretty well utterly pointless experience with poor controls, and seemingly absolutely zero point of playing at all
While it has some survival horror appeal, pretty frequent long pauses, and an overall pervasive jankiness in most areas make it tough to want to stick with
Given the lack of more purist racing sims in the eShop, this does manage to reasonably help fill the void, but that isn’t without some big caveats
While visually it may have a pretty simple look, once you get into the swing of things this provides a surprising but accessible challenge
A pretty brutally challenging budget platformer that has a decent side order of some storytelling
A pretty unique roguelike strategy title that brings some creativity and challenges to bear, but the console interface and controls are unfortunately an extra hurdle to contend with
While there have been quite a number of titles looking to repeat on the success of Hotline Miami by copying its style, few have gotten as close as Kusan: City of Wolves
With a combination of great looks and a distinctive flow of play, Truxton Extreme has a great base of classic arcade shooting that it then builds on, and throws in some story beats for good measure
Mixing together a coffee shop sim with a dating element, and sprinkling in characters with plenty of personality, makes for a reasonably tasty time
With undeniably gorgeous looks, and fast and intense play, this is a distinctive fighter, it just does a terrible job of getting you properly up to speed with its unique mechanics and the CPU is an unapologetic ass-kicker