Tag Archives: Nintendo
Hyrule Warriors Review
Platform: Wii U (reviewed) I kept telling myself that I could overlook Hyrule Warriors’ roots in the Musou games. Being able to fulfill the power-fantasy of playing as Link and mowing through hundreds, sometimes thousands, of enemies in a single battle would be enough to overlook the repetitive nature of these games. The fan-service thrown […]
Child of Light Review
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 (reviewed), PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One In a world full of generic military shooters, cookie cutter zombie games and Minecraft clones, it’s quite refreshing to see Ubisoft breathing life into the industry with creative and beautiful games like Rayman Origins and now Child of Light. […]
Summer Carnival ’92 – Recca Review
Platforms: Famicom and 3DS Virtual Console On the very rare occasion, we get a nice treat on Nintendo’s Virtual Console. We saw some games that never saw a release in North America come to the Wii through the service, giving people a chance to play them without spending a good chunk of change on importing […]
Kirby’s Dream Collection Review
What better way to close out a week dedicated to Kirby’s twentieth anniversary than to go over a compilation dedicated to just that subject? No, seriously. I couldn’t think of much else. Unless you can read Japanese and have access to the Nintendo archives that are locked up nearly as tight as Fort Knox, there’s only […]
Kirby in 3D(S)!
WRITTEN BY SCOTT ROMERO Kirby’s Dream Land Platforms: GameBoy (1992), 3DS Virtual Console (2011) Price: $3.99 Dream Land is Kirby’s very first outing and just so happened to be on Nintendo’s first handheld console as well. The gameplay is mostly what you would expect in a 2D platformer of the early 90s, along with a few additional features. The two most notable features are Kirby’s […]
Not Your Grandma’s Crocheting Material
To say I was a little apprehensive about Kirby’s Epic Yarn would be making it sound like I had any interest in this game to begin with. As I would look through stores searching for a bargain that wasn’t in the ads, I would always pass right over certain games. Epic Yarn somehow got lumped […]
The Last Story Review
Platform: Wii I’ve been rather eagerly anticipating Mistwalker’s The Last Story since last year. Between hearing about it on multiple podcasts (8-4 Play, I lay the blame mostly on you) and seeing impressions of it from importers, Mistwalker’s latest effort had me wanting to dust off my Wii for well over a year. Thanks to […]