by Alon Lessel | Apr 24, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
GOODD: Jizz In My Pants At one point in my last run of GRIDD: Retroenhanced before starting work on this review, I was on top of the world. My weapons were fully upgraded, my shields were up, and my score was rocketing sky-high. I was on a roll. Then a meteor shower...
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...
by Devin White | Apr 11, 2017 | 90+, Features, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
All is F-Air in Love and Smash Super Smash Bros. has an fascinating relationship with its community. When Melee came out, it introduced a host of techniques, some intentional but many not, that gave the game a huge amount of depth, and eventually players found those...
by Alon Lessel | Apr 11, 2017 | 80s, Gems, Reviews
Radical Upgrades Generally, when a game promises to be “NES Hard”, it’s not a good sign. The action-platformers of the NES era were hard not so much because of good design or genuine challenge, but more due to cheap kills and frustrating platforming, mostly...
by Taylor Clemons | Apr 10, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
Hey Batter, Batter I have been wanting to review this game since we started Steam Shovelers. Being thoroughly American, Cricket is something that I was only exposed to in a throw-away line in the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies. Going into this game, I...
by Taylor Clemons | Apr 6, 2017 | 70s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
Myst Meets Amnesia: The Dark Descent At risk of sounding like a crotchety old lady, horror games just aren’t what they used to be. Too often, games like Five Nights at Freddy’s (and its many clones) rely on cheap jumpscares to thrill players. I had been...
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