Perhaps more than any other title in the series, Banana Blitz had the most to gain via a revisitation. Originally released for the Wii, it marked not just a new visual style for its primate cast and courses, but it saw control shift from surgeon-precise analog sticks to motion based…

Lucas Pope made a name for himself with 2013’s Papers, Please; a dour dystopic experience where you play as an immigration officer charged with checking those who cross the border to an authoritarian nation. Pope’s previous work was concerned with putting faces and names to the masses that cross the…

Time travel is a well-worn concept in the realm of Japanese role-playing games, from the aeon spanning Chrono Trigger to the many branches of Radiant Historia. Nippon Ichi Software’s newest IP Destiny Connect, however, sets out to tell a more personal tale with its Tick-Tock Travelers. Y2K When the town…

Collectathons were some of my most favorite titles growing up, with Banjo-Kazooie standing out in particular. The genre may have fallen off, though Mario’s 3D affairs and games like Psychonauts kept the dream alive in the meantime. Come 2017, though, and we had not one, but two throwbacks to the…

I’ve been playing Overwatch on the PlayStation 4 since it launched back in 2016 — consequently, it’s probably the single game I’ve spent the most time playing since then. I don’t consider myself a die-hard Overwatch player, however — I’ve never touched the game on PC, and the only time…

When Playtonic announced that Yooka-Laylee’s second outing would be in 2D rather than in the same 3D platformer style as the first game, I was pretty surprised. The first title leaned so hard into the N64 collectathon nostalgia that I was sure that any game that followed would be in…

While the Xbox One has a comparatively meager library of exclusive titles when pit against the PlayStation 4 and Switch, there were a couple undeniable gems that deserved space on other consoles. Cuphead was one of said games, and following a successful Switch port earlier this year, it seems that…

It’s not often that a game’s marketing can get you single-handedly interested in an entire genre, but thanks to my anticipation for Daemon X Machina, I’ve spent the better part of 2019 thinking about big robots. Ever since playing the initial demo back in February, I’ve just been wanting more…

Arguably the best part of roguelikes is when you’ve finally collected enough loot to achieve god-like status, obliterating everything in your path like a hurricane without even trying. The first Risk of Rain, a sci-fi roguelike defined by potent power-ups and an ever-escalating difficulty, was particularly great at evoking that…