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A PlayStation fan for most of his childhood, once he picked up an Xbox with Panzer Dragoon Orta he never looked back.
Tamarin on Xbox is a game that does not know what it wants to be, one capable of completely blindsiding player expectations. It’s simply a weird game, perhaps one of the weirdest in the platformer genre. Still, the real disappointment is just how boring and bare the third person shooting action is, with no real sense of rewarding level design or progression.
Alchemic Cutie on Xbox is an interesting but tough sell. It no doubt has its charms and strengths, and yet its distinguishing ideas lack real substance in execution; the experience as a whole can feel pointless for a genre that is known to champion a pointless slice of life loop in the first place.
Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town is a solid and enjoyable remake of a Harvest Moon classic. Yet while you get to enjoy a classic experience intact, it also feels incredibly dated given the other options available on Xbox today.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy- Definitive Edition on Xbox is an overpriced and poorly produced release which does absolutely no favours to the classic games it attempts to celebrate. The experience here is far from definitive, and aside from the sheer laziness in the graphical remastering and performance, it introduces a whole slew of performance issues.
SNK would then move on to the Atomiswave arcade board for a short while before making the jump to Taito’s then revolutionary Type X-2 Hardware, and it was on this platform where SNK were able to truly reinvent their graphics and art style in The King of Fighters XII. This reboot of sorts was joined by the likes of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger and even Street Fighter IV on the very same arcade platform.
It won’t attract a non-expert audience as it is clearly targeted towards Wonder Boy/World loyalists, but diehard fans who have played the existing catalogue extensively will get the fix they need from Aggelos.
Grass Cutter - Mutated Lawns is one of those games which doesn’t leave much of an impression on first glance, and even if you decide to take the first set of levels for a spin it still won’t blow your mind right away. But then you suddenly realise that you’re promising yourself to stop after just “one more level”.
Contra Anniversary Collection for now marks the trifecta of the anniversary trilogy unless Konami (hopefully) announces more. As welcome and enjoyable as Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection and Castlevania Anniversary Collection were, this is unquestionably the best of the three.
Even in the presence of so many great options for a Metroidvania experience, the quality of Timespinner is strong enough to warrant interest from not just genre fans, but anyone looking for a consistently engaging and polished 2D adventure epic.
Outer Wilds sits somewhere between the Elite and No Man’s Sky experiences in that there is a game universe and lore with compelling substance, but the exploration of this universe is unpredictable and profoundly aimless. As the game’s tagline suggests, you explore an artistically handcrafted solar system at your whim.
Skelly Selest, despite its very familiar gameplay styles, still has a lot going for it. For one thing, it at least goes out of its way to distinguish itself from the competition
A lot of great things were happening in 1995, but Diesel’s run with the WWF Championship certainly was not one of them, and neither were the tank controls or locked camera angles of early survival horror titles. Back in 1995 is a 2019 release which plays like something which should belong in the year 1995, and stay there too. Perhaps the game’s title should have been Back in 1992 given the stark similarities to the original Alone in the Dark (1992).
It’s easy to make the Asteroids (Atari, 1980) comparison as soon as you see Super Space Serpent Secondary Edition (SE), which is actually an enhanced version of the original, and very quietly released, PlayStation Vita game from 2015. Super Space Serpent now returns with more flash and bang and is, at least for the time being, an Xbox One exclusive title.
My Big Sister is one of those rare gems which manages to draw upon various pop culture influences, be it Western or Eastern, melding all of its inspirations together to create something that ends up being far bigger than the sum of its influences.
Black Paradox has a lot of well-intentioned ideas, but the execution of those inventive ideas results in a gameplay experience which doesn’t quite achieve the pace and flow expected of a shmup.
Zeroptian Invasion is an honest homage to Space Invaders and even Galaga, and it isn’t ashamed of paying tribute to the timeless origins of the shmup genre by providing a fun experience of its own.
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Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue isn’t a bad game, it’s just that others of a similar ilk, like Danganronpa, do the social thriller visual novel concept much better.
