Last month, The Pokemon Company continued its tradition of remaking earlier Pokemon games with Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Fifteen years after their original release, these remakes of Pokemon’s fourth generation seek to catch the zoomer nostalgia wave and re-establish the Sinnoh region ahead of Pokemon Legends: Arceus. But do …
Cotton isn’t exactly a household name, and that’s a damn shame. “Cute-’em-ups” are a delight, with their blend of super-cute presentation and classic shooter action, and 1991’s Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams and its handful of sequels more than earned their place alongside the TwinBees and Fantasy Zones of the world. …
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade takes this FF7 reimagining to new heights on PS5, with the added bonus of an exciting Yuffie chapter. Upon its release in 2020, Final Fantasy VII Remake won over audiences with its inspired spin on the Midgar portion of the 1997 JRPG classic. Square delivered …
SEGA is never shy about re-releasing Sonic the Hedgehog and Shinobi games on every new console under the sun, but is oddly conservative when it comes to Wonder Boy / Monster World (different names due to localisation history, but the same series). With more focus on adventure and exploration and …
In 1988, Nintendo released Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir upon the Famicom Disk System. Though the lack of global release meant it’s long been an obscurity outside its home country, it made quite the splash in Japan. For one thing, it gave Yoshio Sakamoto—best known for his work on …
Last week, ININ Games announced the western release date for Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World, and it’s not far away: May 28, 2021. Asha in Monster World is a remake of Monster World IV, which originally came out for Sega Mega Drive in Japan in 1994. That version never …
Famicom Detective Club is not something I would ever have expected to see on Nintendo Switch. A pair of relatively obscure adventure ’80s Famicom adventure games that never saw a worldwide release doesn’t exactly seem like it’d be a high priority for the remake treatment. But here we are, and …
A remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is in development, Ubisoft announced today during the Ubisoft Forward presentation. The company’s “first full-scale remake” is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Epic Games Store, the Ubisoft Store on PC, and UPLAY+ on 21 January 2021. Prince of Persia: …
Ratings board listings might have stolen the thunder about the existence of definitive editions of the Mafia games, publisher 2K still had one nice surprise in the games’ official announcement: Mafia II: Definitive Edition and Mafia III: Definitive Edition are available right now, on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam. …
Buy Trials of Mana from nzgameshop.com (affiliate link) The original Seiken Densetsu 3 (now known officially in the West as Trials of Mana) is one of my favourite Super Famicom games. When murky corners of the internet introduced me to fan-translations in the early 2000s, a found a whole new …
