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.
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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.
Sackboy makes the jump to PC with a solid port
Perfect time to give this delightful platformer a look if you don’t have a PlayStation.
Stela has some great sights, but lacks cohesion
Stela is a solid game on the whole, but it lacks that final piece to make it truly great.
La-Mulana 2 proves that “X” never marks the spot
I’m always in awe when a game comes out in this day and age that manages to confound me as much as La-Mulana 2 has so far. Like its predecessor, developer Nigoro’s long in development puzzle-platformer is a game about discovery and having to work your ass off for it. It’s can be positively exhilarating…
Pinball and platforming make a fantastic pairing in Yoku’s Island Express
In a time where genres are constantly blending together, it’s hard to feel excitement about them. But Yoku’s Island Express, a pinball game mixed with a Metroid-style platformer from developer Villa Gorilla, is one of those rare exceptions. It’s a delightfully charming and inventive game that seamlessly blends pinball and platforming mechanics together to fantastic…