Review: Dark Scrolls is an addictive, but flawed, retro platformer
Dark Scrolls is pared back and straightforward, but finely crafted.
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Review: Long lost chapter in the series Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is pixelated gold
One of the most colorful GBA games never released, Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is very much worth letting the half-genie out of the bottle again for.
One year after its release on early access, The Rogue Prince of Persia is an even more beautiful and entertaining roguelike platformer
The Rogue Prince of Persia plays brilliantly and as it approaches 1.0, it already plays and feels like one of the best roguelikes around.
Review: Bionic Bay is a beautiful, if sometimes infuriating, platformer
Bionic Bay has a unique pixel art aesthetic which coats a need for deep reserves of precision and patience.
Review: Charming as all hell, Astro Bot is a love letter to Sony by Sony itself
Astro Bot is one of the best platformers released in over a decade, oozing with content and fun scenarios that should appeal to just about every kind of player there is.
Review: Gimmick! 2 is a charmingly simple and fun platformer
Gimmick! 2 marks the first time that a new entry in the series has been officially released outside of Japan.
Review: Castlevania Dominus Collection is a portable banger of a compilation
Bringing some of the finest 2D games to date, the Castlevania Dominus Collection is a brilliant compilation that is helped even further with the surprise inclusion of a much needed rework of the game that started it all.
Review: Gestalt: Steam & Cinder well-oiled gameplay and narrative shake up an otherwise stale genre
Say what you will about the genre, Gestalt: Steam and Cinder is an excellent pixelated ‘search action adventure’ game set in a fantasy world very much worth exploring.
BGS 2023: How Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown stole the show
With Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Ubisoft reinvents its classic videogame franchise yet again in a brilliantly put together platformer that has a huge emphasis on speed and precision movement and does not shy away from set pieces and fantastic combat.
Bloody Tearful: An ode to DS-era Castlevania Games
Castlevania’s twilight years were some of its best, but they were not enough to avert the dramatic end of the series as we knew and loved it.