Nintendo is adding yet another game to the Mario Party franchise. It’s time to gather your friends (and enemies) and have a dice-rolling, mini-game playing blast in Super Mario Party Jamboree. Building onto Super Mario Party’s online functionality with bigger and better mini-game marathons, Super Mario Party Jamboree introduces the…
Super Mario Party Jamboree is just over a week away from its October 17th release and Nintendo is clearly counting the days. A demo for the game is available on Nintendo kiosks across the country as of Friday, October 4th. The demo can be played in stores such as Target,…
2023’s Japanese 3D platformer Bakeru is currently on a bit of a comeback tour. Following its exclusive release overseas last November, almost a full year later Bakeru made it to Western digital store shelves in September on the Nintendo Switch eShop. Now, thanks to Spike Chunsoft, we can confirm that…
Few things are as fun as plowing through a room full of enemies with a giant sword, and RemiLore gives you the chance to do exactly that. Protagonist Remi is transported to the world of Ragnoah, an alternate universe overrun by mechanical monsters, and throughout her journey the only help…
These days, I very rarely play games in handheld mode. I hold nothing against the idea of it, but if I can play a game on the big screen, I will, and the Nintendo Switch is brilliant for allowing the option with practically every game on the platform. There’s one…
When I was given the review code for Etrian Odyssey Nexus, I walked over to the corner of my room where my 3DS lay. I’d barely touched it in the past year. A small layer of dust had settled on its top. Part of the casing was beginning to wear…
Fairy tales have been around for centuries; and while their imagery is easy enough to find, it’s not too often you find a game that presents itself as one. And I don’t mean the watered down, available on home video kind of adaptation either. No, what we have here is…
Nintendo’s been catering to fans of tactics pretty generously over the last few years. Fire Emblem on 3DS, Fire Emblem on mobile, soon-to-be Fire Emblem on Switch — you can’t really complain. That is, unless you remember their other turn and grid-based strategy game. Back on the GBA and DS,…
When Nintendo revealed a remake of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga a couple years back, two thoughts came to mind. The first was how excited I was to pick it up after the letdown that was Paper Jam, and the second was that Bowser’s Inside Story would totally be made…
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (still a mouthful of a title!) is the latest in a line of Wii U games given a second chance at life on the Nintendo Switch, following the likes of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Bayonetta 2, Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze,…
Back on the Wii one of my favorite pickups was No More Heroes. Putting you in control of Travis Touchdown, an up and coming beam katana assassin climbing the ranks of killers, it was a strange game where you spent time dumpster diving and mowing lawns to raise up some…
The most upsetting kind of game is not one that’s catastrophically awful, or aggressively mediocre, but rather one that should by the sum of its parts be an unmitigated wonder, only to fall short of its own promises due to flaws of its own making. A game that’s truly horrible…
Not a lot of people understand just how much I owe to Fitness games. While it’s easy to discount these types of games as shovelware or a cash grab (depending on the player), they can mean a whole lot more. In fact, about 11 years ago, I sat down and…
Video game re-releases are happening all the time these days, and while some bring back lost gems and others add new and exciting features, other times they right wrongs. Tales of Vesperia released back in 2008 exclusively for the XBox 360, serving as one of the most notable releases for…
The question of “can video games be art?” is long past us, as it has been fairly, definitively proven that the medium has the power to move, to inspire, and to resonate with players and our culture at large. But our understanding of gaming as an art form is ever…
