This is what Just Cause 3 should have been: a huge, mostly glitch-free playground of destruction in which you can let your beer-chugging, heavy metal-appreciating imagination go rampant.
If jumping like Mega Man, shooting like Mega Man and sorta looking like Mega Man were enough for Capcom to slap a Mega Man name on 20XX, they totally would. Outside of a key gameplay difference, Batterystaple Games and Fire Hose Games’ newest Switch release plays exactly like a 2D side scrolling Blue Bomber outing,…
Namco Bandai wanted one thing very clear about Dark Souls 2: Nothing is changing. All that talk of accessibility and broadening the audience? Forget it. Easy mode? Not happening. If anything, Dark Souls 2 looks to be far harder than both its predecessors combined. And from what I played, that’s certainly the case. The appointment…
Although there’s nothing to find off the beaten path, the set-pieces and environments of Bramble: The Mountain King are definitely worth seeing.
A stirring story of emotional abuse and the horrors of capitalism reinforce fine search-action play.
The underlying concept of Flat Kingdom’s gameplay is really neat: you control a character that can’t directly attack enemies, but by changing shapes, it can counter their attacks and defeat them. Unfortunately, due to bad hit detection, confusing art design and unbalanced difficulty, Flat Kingdom never quite takes off. Set in a two dimensional world that’s…
With a bigger emphasis on speeding up the action and progression, Monster Hunter Rise is an excellent gateway into the franchise for newer players.
Lacking depth, Honig Studios’ wordless adventure satisfies more as a puzzle game than as a stealth game.
With much yelling and demanding from their fans, Nintendo is finally coughing out a new Star Fox game, dubbed Star Fox Zero. Much to our surprise, it’s a game fully focused on making use of the Wii U’s gamepad. That could be both a good and bad thing, all things considered. After our E3 demo with Nintendo, I’m…
The Switch eShop might be starting to get bloated with all sorts of indie releases in a similar way Steam is, but you can count on developers like JoyMasher to bring quality releases like Odallus and Oniken.
