by Joel Couture | Aug 10, 2017 | 80s, Features, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
A Video Game Vacation Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles (Yonder) feels like the equivalent of a vacation. Yes, there’s farming to be done and evil mist to be cleared, but after crash landing on the island, it feels like there’s this intense sense of freedom and...
by Joel Couture | Jul 9, 2017 | 70s, Features, Full Reviews, Reviews
Magical Brick Breaking Fun Cute witches with some neat powers inject some added danger and fun into the block breaker genre with Strikey Sisters. With swiping attacks that give better ball control, enemies to keep you busy as the ball does its work on the upper...
by Joel Couture | Jun 16, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
NES Hard Gets NES Harder Many developers aspire to ‘NES Hard’ – that familiar brutality that many grew up with. A Hole New World definitely falls into that category, but with the added twist of having to play some segments upside-down. Demons and monsters have...
by Joel Couture | Jun 9, 2017 | 70s, Full Reviews, Reviews
Are You Afraid Of The Dark? Being a blind woman in a haunted house should be terrifying. That darkness won’t go away just because you shine a flashlight on something. You are hopelessly mired in murk, only able to tell what is around you by the hot breath on the back...
by Joel Couture | Apr 16, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
Snaky Slithering Makes For A Scintillating Experience Snake Pass makes movement the star of its platforming experience. By having players act like a snake, they’ll slither and twist up various surfaces and bamboo ladders, clambering around stages using the...
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