2021: Best Games of the Year
2021 may not have been a great year overall, but it was a great year for video games. There were definitely ups and downs, with some severe disappointments, and great […]
Review: Death’s Gambit: Afterlife Is a Whole New Experience
I never played Death’s Gambit on its original release. There are so any soulslike and metroidvania games that Death’s Gambit flew under my radar—sort of. I mean, it was already […]
Review: A Great Metroidvania, Axiom Verge 2 Subverts Conventions
I came to Axiom Verge late, only playing the first game in series just a year or so ago. I knew it was considered one of the best retro-inspired modern […]
Review: Recompile Is a Stylish Cyberspace Metroidvania with a Few Glitches
Growing up watching cartoons in the 90s, there were lots of shows about “cyberspace” with ancient computer graphics and cheesy storylines about computer programs fighting viruses inside of what the […]
Review: Unbound: Worlds Apart Is a Puzzle Platformer with a Side of Metroidvania
I’ve played a lot of platformers and puzzle platformers over the years—and while I definitely got sick of platformers when I was younger, I’ve been finding myself craving a good […]
Review: Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition Brings New Levels and Quality of Life Changes to the Gravity Defying Metroidvania
I first heard of Dandara when a writer pitched the review to me in 2018.When he submitted it, all I knew going in was that it was a metroidvania. After […]
Review: A Robot Named Fight is a Grotesque “Metroguelite” Anyone Can Love
A Robot Named Fight is developer Matt Bitner’s carefully crafted homage to the games he loved as a kid. Even if you didn’t play games like Super Metroid, Contra, Mega […]