Arcade Paradise is a love letter to the days of those summer afternoons, spending pocket money in these delightfully dingy places. It could also be the final nail in the arcade coffin, because no real-life arcade can offer this many good titles under one roof.
Say ‘Shadoworld: The Impossible Escape Game’ to us, and an involuntary facial tic will spasm across our face. This is not a game to play if you value your time or sanity.
GUNBIRD 2 is a shoot ’em up that manages to be accessible while offering plenty to master. It’s a second-course of whatever GUNBIRD was serving, and that’s fine with us
It would be easy to find Cosmos Bit guilty for a series of gaming crimes. It’s got an unhealthy love for Metroid; it’s reasonably rough to look at; it invites grind; and the save system is as creaky as Resident Evil’s doors. But, like the parent of an ugly child, we can’t help having some affection for Cosmos Bit.
With rewards for playing through Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II multiple times, you’ll need to sacrifice a large part of your gaming life if you choose to dive in.
It may not be the easiest, and it can be a little insistent in its objectives, but Super Mombo Quest is as rewarding as they come. Just keep that combo up, soldier.
We’d be lying if we said we didn’t enjoy Hillbilly Doomsday. It’s like someone handed us Megaman but with cheats enabled, and we merrily chewed through the levels with blood spattered across our face.
There may be people who feel that Psikyo shooters are on the simplistic, easy side. To those people, we recommend the bullet-hell of Strikers 1945 III. For everyone else, we’d like to introduce you to the first two games in the series.
Digimon Survive is going off in a slightly tangential direction. That’s right, Digimon Survive is a tactical RPG and visual novel hybrid, with a heavy emphasis on the latter. And by heavy, I mean a WarGreymon sized emphasis. Whether that’s a good or bad thing depends on your expectations.
With the rewind feature, Avenging Spirit can still be completed in under an hour, but it is a highly original title when compared to what else was out around that time. And even in the year 2022 it is still a fun 2D jaunt, with the Ratalaika Games promise of easy achievements to boot.
DreadOut 2 does a good job of creating an interesting adventure that has an exemplary use of a camera as the weapon of choice. However, the story is hard to follow and at times things are more than a bit clunky.
Can you fall in love with a Bluetooth speaker? The obvious answer is no - that would just be a bit weird. But if it were totally possible, the GravaStar Mars Pro Bluetooth Speaker would be the one giving us that teasing look.
