At a little over six years since its original Wii U release, New Super Mario Bros. U isn’t that old. But to play it fresh in 2019, it feels like a relic from a time long gone—both for better and worse. On some level, this is to be expected. While …
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With Save me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako-San, developer Cristophe Galati set out with a clear goal: to recapture the experience of playing games on the original Game Boy, complete with a monochrome display that belies a colourful adventure. He’s not the first to do so and he won’t be the …
The folks behind the excellent action platformer series Momodora series have announced their next game: a spiritual sequel to Momodora called Minoria, due for release in 2019. Minoria shares a similar gothic aesthetic, solemn storytelling, and fast-paced combat as Momodora, but it moves away from pixel art to high-definition hand-painted backgrounds and cel-shaded character …
In February this year, Arc System Works and Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro revealed that they were working together on something called The Missing, though there were no details beyond that. We know a little bit more now, thanks to a new teaser site and three screenshots—and while that’s still not enough to …
This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s played the first game, but La-Mulana 2 is hard. Tricky platforming and cryptic puzzles will stretch your reactions and problem-solving ability, while cruel traps await any adventurer who gets to reckless. La-Mulana 2 may be more streamlined in its design, but …
I love the proliferation of “culture games” at we’ve been seeing lately. Games like Never Alone, Ayo: A Rain Tale, and Mulaka use games as a platform to bring awareness of little-known indigenous cultures to the masses, and the whole video games medium is better for it. With its haunting …
Review by Matthew Codd If you’re a fan of Mega Man X, the newly-released Mega Man X Legacy Collections are a must buy. More than simply a bundle of old games, these collections offer a dive into the history of one of Capcom’s most iconic characters with a repository of …
Review by Jeffers Haile Inside is one of the weirdest and creepiest games I’ve ever played, but in this case, that’s a good thing. Playdead’s second title is listed as “a puzzle-platformer adventure game”, but you could easily add “thriller” to that list. It’s also one that has zero hand-holding, …
I was very doubtful about the idea of a sequel to 2016’s Unravel. That was a fantastic game, and the ending was so perfect that I couldn’t see how anything would be able to follow it and do it justice. As such, it was with an odd mic of excitement …
It’s a rare horror game that can make you regress to that little kid, hiding under the covers from the shadows that creep across the room. All the gore and body horror in the world can’t compare to the childhood fear of the dark, and a game that can build …