Tag Archives: Retro
Devastator Review
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch (reviewed), PC Devastator touts itself as being a retro-inspired twin-stick shooter that is polished to the point of being the most intense and satisfying twin-stick shooter experience possible. It also claims to have such a surprising amount of depth and subtlety that it offers […]
Alwa’s Awakening Review
Platforms – Switch, PC (reviewed), Mac, and Linux Shovel Knight made it okay to enjoy games styled after the 8-bit era. It certainly wasn’t the first to touch on it, but what it did to make it successful was take the lessons learned over the decades since and applied modern gaming conventions to it. Alwa’s Awakening […]
Rain World Looks Adorable And Horrifying
Coming to Playstation 4 and PC later in 2017, Rain World is a platformer that has you, as a slugcat, trying to reunite with your family. Of course, it won’t be a simple task (otherwise it would make for a fairly boring experience). You’ll be forced to evade predators while trying to keep yourself alive through […]
Family Dog Review
This is the original draft of the this article that I wrote for Hardcore Gaming 101. Platform: SNES There’s a good chance that you’re not familiar with Family Dog. It was a short-lived TV series that ran for ten episodes on CBS and has a rather baffling history and surprising amount of Hollywood talent attached […]
I Wish I Was Mega Man – Magical Doropie/The Krion Conquest
If you couldn’t tell from the name, I’m going to be playing a few games, likely not to completion, that play similarly, sometimes almost way too much so, to Mega Man. Now before you go running off and decide “NOPE!”, I’m adding one new thing to this that should be a good place to experiment […]