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Review: Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap
With Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, Lizardcube has taken the original Master System classic developed by Whetstone and given it a completely new coat of paint. It’s also, in most aspects, a great way to bring a classic into the …
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Review: Puyo Puyo Tetris
Where Tetris is a game about meticulously stacking blocks in a straight line, Puyo Puyo (or Puyo Pop as it’s known in the West) puts the focus on sorting colored blobs (i.e. puyos) into groups of four in order to …
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Review: Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren’s Call
Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren’s Call picks up not long after the events of the first game. Sarah Black has returned to her museum and she carries with her some rather hard to believe stories about pirates, curses, …
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Review: Loot Rascals
Loot Rascals would fit really well in a theoretical Adult Swim Saturday Morning Cartoon block. The games mix of cartoon, pan-dimensional horror, and holograms somehow blend together really well and makes for an overall aesthetic that feels completely original. Extra …
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Review: Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin
Nearly twelve years after the initial release of Psychonauts, the Rhombus of Ruin has emerged to serve as connective tissue between the original game and the upcoming – long-awaited – sequel. Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin picks up right …
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Review: Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue
By the end of March, the entirety of the Kingdom Hearts series will be playable or viewable on PS4, which is pretty exciting just for the sake of convenience. It also puts the series in a position to be a …
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Review: Lara Croft GO
Much like Hitman GO before it, Lara Croft GO is an excellent simplified take on the Tomb Raider franchise. Lara Croft’s journey to find ancient treasure this time is presented through turn-based puzzles, each of which containing numerous puzzles to …
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Review: Thumper
In Thumper you are a metallic space beetle speeding down a track in some sort of psychedelic void. It’s described as a rhythm violence game which, for what it’s worth, couldn’t possibly be more fitting. This is a game about …
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Review: Moon Hunters
Moon Hunters was a tricky game for me to get through with the purposes of reviewing it. I first came across it at PAX East 2015, when I met the Kit Fox team and chatted about their aspirations for the …
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Review: Bound
I truly can’t think of a game that has left me in such a trance-like state, not in the way that Bound did. The game’s lead, a young princess ballerina, moves with grace and dances effortlessly throughout her kingdom of …
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Review: Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap
With Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, Lizardcube has taken the original Master System classic developed by Whetstone and given it a completely new coat of paint. It’s also, in most aspects, a great way to bring a classic into the …
+
Read More
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Review: Puyo Puyo Tetris
Where Tetris is a game about meticulously stacking blocks in a straight line, Puyo Puyo (or Puyo Pop as it’s known in the West) puts the focus on sorting colored blobs (i.e. puyos) into groups of four in order to …
+
Read More
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Review: Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren’s Call
Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren’s Call picks up not long after the events of the first game. Sarah Black has returned to her museum and she carries with her some rather hard to believe stories about pirates, curses, …
+
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Review: Loot Rascals
Loot Rascals would fit really well in a theoretical Adult Swim Saturday Morning Cartoon block. The games mix of cartoon, pan-dimensional horror, and holograms somehow blend together really well and makes for an overall aesthetic that feels completely original. Extra …
+
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Review: Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin
Nearly twelve years after the initial release of Psychonauts, the Rhombus of Ruin has emerged to serve as connective tissue between the original game and the upcoming – long-awaited – sequel. Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin picks up right …
+
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Review: Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue
By the end of March, the entirety of the Kingdom Hearts series will be playable or viewable on PS4, which is pretty exciting just for the sake of convenience. It also puts the series in a position to be a …
+
Read More
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Review: Lara Croft GO
Much like Hitman GO before it, Lara Croft GO is an excellent simplified take on the Tomb Raider franchise. Lara Croft’s journey to find ancient treasure this time is presented through turn-based puzzles, each of which containing numerous puzzles to …
+
Read More
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Review: Thumper
In Thumper you are a metallic space beetle speeding down a track in some sort of psychedelic void. It’s described as a rhythm violence game which, for what it’s worth, couldn’t possibly be more fitting. This is a game about …
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Read More
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Review: Moon Hunters
Moon Hunters was a tricky game for me to get through with the purposes of reviewing it. I first came across it at PAX East 2015, when I met the Kit Fox team and chatted about their aspirations for the …
+
Read More
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Review: Bound
I truly can’t think of a game that has left me in such a trance-like state, not in the way that Bound did. The game’s lead, a young princess ballerina, moves with grace and dances effortlessly throughout her kingdom of …
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Read More