Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut marks Shantae’s first appearance on PlayStation consoles as well as my first foray into the series. Despite being the second game of the series Risky’s Revenge serves to be a pretty good introduction into …

When Shield Knight is lost it’s up to Shovel Knight to fight through The Order of No Quarter and take down the evil Enchantress in order to save his beloved. Doing this is no easy task and he’ll need all …

Shortly after Kick wakes up alone (seemingly in a world in ruin) he finds a small flying robot named Fennick and a rather large gun. Not long after the pair run into a large guard robot in which Fennick quickly …

The Giana Sisters franchise has a pretty interesting history that I’d recommend taking some time to read up on. The short of it is that the original Giana Sisters released in 1987 and was strikingly similar to Super Mario Bros. …

As a quick aside from this review I think Mercenary Kings being touted as “Metal Slug meets Monster Hunter” is doing the game a bit of a disservice. Sure the game is stylistically similar to Metal Slug and many of …

In SteamWorld Dig you play as Rusty, a robot who has just received a deed from his uncle, who has just arrived in the mining town of Tumbleton. With his uncle nowhere to be found Rusty must dig and explore …

If you were to look at Double Helix’s track record around the time their reboot of Strider was announced I wouldn’t blame you for being worried. How could the same developer behind Battleship or G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra …

My experience with the Vita version of Dustforce has been, in a word, inconsistent. There are chunks of time where I’m having fun and really digging the flow of platforming throughout each stage while sweeping up trash. Then there are …

One day while gaming with his grandma Max’s world is changed when a meteor comes crashing into Earth bringing the Mutant Mudds with it. Armed with a jet-pack and a heavy-duty water cannon it’s up to Max to collect the …

As the name implies Chromatic Aberration bases it’s gameplay mechanics off the type of optical distortion of the same name. This distortion, which can also be referred to as chromatic distortion, is what happens when all wavelengths of color are …