Video Game Reviews, Articles
With Shantae dancing through the danger in three games on the Switch, it was only a matter of time until WayForward decided to port another title in the series. Originally released on the DSi in 2011, Shantae: Risky’s Revenge –…
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The bones of Carrion are formed from a simple premise: imagine playing a video game of John Carpenter’s The Thing where the player takes on the role of the titular creature. While the acclaimed 2002 Konami third-person shooter (that acts…
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What is it? Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a Metroidvania platformer developed by Game Atelier and published by FDG Entertainment. It is a spiritual sequel to the Wonder Boy series. Our hero, Jin, discovers his wacky Uncle Nabu…
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Independent development studio WayForward has recently announced that, due to popular demand, two entries from the action-adventure-platformer Shantae series are making their way to consoles later this year. Shantae was released on the Game Boy Colour in 2002 in very…
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The beloved Shantae series has danced through the danger since 2002, and WayForward has delivered some truly mesmerizing titles over the course of 18 years. Sure, each of them does have their unignorable quirks and niggles, but the quality and…
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It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that most of us, if not all, once had something to cuddle on when we were kids (since my family was poor, I cuddled up to a slab of mouldy bread every night)….
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Anime schoolgirls fighting monsters! Yes, it’s a trope that’s been done to death, especially in Japan, but they never stop cropping up every so often. It’s understandable to be skeptical, considering some rely on the trope, alongside blatantly obvious fanservice,…
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In a gaming landscape where ‘games as a service’ is a constant AAA developer mantra and the video games that don’t fall under that umbrella are (more often than not) exhausting open-world time-sinks, Journey to the Savage Planet is a…
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Do you ever feel like games development companies are trying to brainwash the public with their games? Constant wearing us down to spending all of our hard earned cash in their games? Have you ever wanted to infiltrate them, murder…
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The last week or two I’ve been doing one thing in my spare time – I was playing a game called Horace. Initially, I was a little unsure. While it ticks a lot of my boxes – it’s made by…
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What is it? Gato Roboto is an indie, two toned metroidvania game featuring a cat in a mecha suit. You have to try to make your way through a perilous alien underworld in order to help your stranded captain. Platform(s)…
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I missed the golden age of Metroidvania games, and due to that, have never really played too many. It’s not like I’ve avoided them, but I just have other genres that I prefer to play when I’m in my downtime,…
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Don’t let the bad name put you off, this Metroid mimic has more teeth than most.
What is it? Cave Story is a metroidvania style game developed all the way back in 2004. Since then, it’s received a bit of a facelift and been put onto Steam, and it’s just as fantastic as it was the…
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Alien franchise games have something of a chequered history, oscillating between the likes of the amazing (original) Aliens Vs Predator to the awful Aliens: Colonial Marines. It’s with some sense of trepidation, then, that I approach any title in the…
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