Game Review: Animal Crossing: New Horizons
After much anticipation and one delay, Animal Crossing: New Horizons hit store shelves on the 20th of March 2020. The trailers and promos promised all the things longtime fans love about Animal Crossing series, along with a few interesting new twists like crafting and terraforming. Did the game live up to everyone’s lofty expectations? How did its attempts to change up the formula turn out? Can a complete newbie to the franchise find something to like in this latest installment? All these questions and more will be addressed in this review.
Game Review: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Expansion Pass
There’s a new House in Fire Emblem: Three Houses but it’s a little odd compared to the others.
Game Review: New Super Lucky’s Tale (Switch)
Nintendo consoles have always been the best home for the platforming genre and New Super Lucky’s Tale is the latest IP to make an appearance on the Switch in the hope of finding an audience. Released back in 2017 along with the launch of the Xbox One X under the title ‘Super Lucky’s Tale’, New Super Lucky’s Tale is essentially the same game but with major improvements to the camera and the DLC packed in.
Game Review: Super Crush KO
Time to save your cat! And the human race while you’re at it. Let’s take a look at what VertexPop’s newest release is all about.
Game Review: The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Switch)
Grezzo, the developer behind the 3DS remakes of Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask, has arrived on the Switch with their latest remake of Nintendo’s revered series: a ground-up remake of the classic GameBoy title, Link’s Awakening.
Game Review: Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
Let’s take a look at the power of Trine in action with Frozenbyte’s newest addition to the series.
Game Review: Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Switch)
When Luigi’s Mansion was released on the GameCube back in 2001 to huge critical acclaim and commercial success, it showed that it wasn’t just Mario that could carry a game. And yet Nintendo have been incredibly slow at releasing more games from the Super Mario franchise where Mario ISN’T the main character. It took them 12 years to give Luigi his first sequel and now FINALLY, he is back on his third solo outing with Luigi’s Mansion 3.
Game Review: Star Wars Pinball (Switch)
Every so often, you might find yourself yearning for something to unwind with on the Nintendo Switch. That can be challenging without an Animal Crossing game on the system for now – and with most Switch titles being 30-hour epics or plain shovelware, it might be difficult to find something you can pick up without the obligation to complete it. This was the dilemma I found myself in, until I experienced Star Wars Pinball.
Game Review: Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (Switch)
Over the last decade, the Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games has become a tradition on Nintendo consoles with there being a new entry released every 2 years since 2007. But after skipping out on the Winter 2018 Olympics, the series is finally back and appearing for the first time on Nintendo Switch at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Game Review: Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD (Switch)
When it comes to Sega franchises, the one that comes to mind after Sonic is the Super Monkey Ball series. Almost twenty years have passed since the first Super Monkey Ball game was released on a Nintendo platform and eight years since the last game in the series, Super Monkey Ball 3D was released. It’s been so long since the last game that I wondered if the franchise had been abandoned altogether. But then here comes Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, originally released on the Wii on 2006. But this time it’s in HD.