“Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end”
-Chuck Aaron
Game Critique
Video game review
If you don’t like peas, it is probably because you have not had them fresh.
-Lemony Snicket
How do you interpret this game? Is your interpretation the correct one? The answer is not black and white. It’s GRIS.
Tetris 99 combines the classic puzzle game with modern Battle Royale gameplay. Skeptical? Try it for yourself and get hooked all over again.
Super R-Type is brutal, flashy, explosive, everything that you’d expect from a space shoot ’em up from the 1990s!
Radical Dreamers may have just received an official translation, but fan translators have made the game accessible for years!
Oniken: Unstoppable Edition proves that the folks over at JoyMasher really do understand retro. This is an authentic retro action experience!
Death at the gates again, howling my name.
Can’t greet you today, I’ve a war to win.
-BJ Blazkowicz
He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
If Katamari is an ice cream sundae with all the fixings, Donut County is a scoop of vanilla frozen yogurt with some multicolored sprinkles.
Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a single truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
-Miguel Syjuco
Cake Factory is more game than video and for a certain mindset, that’s all you need to distract one’s attentions on a leisurely day.
Kirby’s Dream Land shows its age in many ways but it marked the first outing of Sakurai’s pink (or white) puffball hero.
Let’s Go Pikachu (and Let’s Go Eevee) remakes, rebalances, and represents the classic Red and Blue (and Green) games but does it go too far?
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
When you can’t cheat the game, you’d best find a means to cheat the players….
Learn this well, the last ride is never the last ride.
And the end is not the end.
-Richard Rowland
SNK 40th Anniversary Collection has more games than the PS1 mini and it doesn’t include a bunch that you’ve already played a billion times.
“Show a little more respect…
For Faerie Tales…”
-Sydney Losstarot, Vagrant Story
The Capcom Beat ‘Em Up Bundle brings the arcade experience of yesteryear home PLUS some games never before released on home console!
Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday reminds us that even on the mighty SNES, some memories are better off left buried.
“Enter at your own peril! Past the bolted door where impossible things may happen, that the world’s never seen before!”
-Dexter’s Laboratory: End Credits
It’s sheer perfection, my precious G Virus,
nobody will ever take you away from me,
-Dr William Birkin
Mega Man 11 feels like going home. An old Rockman veteran critiques the latest Mega Man game with an eye on gimmicky gameplay.
