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Eight to Consider: Games of E3 2018
This year’s E3 is in the books and, as I’ve done in years past, I thought I’d discuss some of the best games I saw during the show. There were a number of really interesting games shown off and announced this year, but unfortunately a good deal of those seemed to focus heavily on multiplayer. […]
Happy Birthdays Review
Platform: Switch Do you have some nostalgia for those educational games of yesteryear? I grew up playing a lot of them and that likely led up to my fondness for games that might be a bit more slow paced but require a fair amount of planning like Tactics Ogre and SimCity. Getting into those types of games felt […]
Ninja Five-0 Review
Platform: Game Boy Advance Ah, Ninja Five-0 (known as Ninja Cop in Europe), where have you been all my life? Hell, judging by the quizzical expressions and vocal inflections I get when I mention playing it, it’s been missing from everyone’s life. There’s a certain following this game has that’s really only brought up when trying to trump someone […]
Attack on Titan 2 Review
Platforms: Playstation 4 (reviewed), Nintendo Switch, Vita, Windows, and Xbox One Attack on Titan as a property and I have a strange relationship. I enjoy the show because of the action sequences and overall world it sets up while caring only minimally about the characters and the narrative surrounding them. For me, Attack on Titan […]
Kirby Star Allies Review
Platform: Nintendo Switch Kirby’s often played second banana to the major pillars of Nintendo’s major franchises. The Pink Puffball generally sees more releases on a Nintendo platform than most of their others do, but the not completely incorrect perception of the series being easy often has great games that break the Kirby mold like Kirby and […]
The Little Acre Review
Platforms: Linux, Mac PlayStation 4 (reviewed), Windows, and Xbox One The Little Acre is a point-and-click adventure that tells the story of Aiden and his daughter Lily. As the game begins, Aiden gets a lead on his missing father and ends up stumbling into a bizarre new world in hopes of finding him. Once Lily, […]
Harvey Birdman Review
Platforms: Playstation 2, PSP (reviewed), and Wii It’s a little strange for me to think of Harvey Birdman as retro, but this game came out in 2008. 2008! The Wii and PSP were still current platforms back then. While it might seem an odd choice to kick off this endeavor, I felt like playing an Ace Attorney […]
Dragon Quest III at 30
Today is the 30th anniversary of Dragon Quest III’s Japanese release. DQIII cemented the series as a cultural touchstone and something more than a fad. Lines snaked around blocks, kids played truant and the game became a national talking point. On the whole, the Dragon Quest series is very iterative. Each successive game builds on the […]
Jason Arriola’s Favorite Games of 2017
I guess being a bit of the odd duck on the site, I’m going to throw in a couple of retro releases. I have more than five games I want to list, but without the retro releases to round it out, I’d have some oddball number and it was going to drive me nuts. Much […]