Yoshi has had a tough time when it came to starring in his own platformers. After the wonderfully crafted 1995 SNES gem Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario World 2, the green dino has done little to maintain that momentum. He starred in the abysmal Yoshi’s Story on the N64 followed by a “demake” of the original […]
2010’s Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii was the one of the more challenging platformers in recent memory. Retro Studios did a superb job bringing back the classic gameplay from the Super Nintendo trilogy while maintaining the top notch quality they achieved for the Metroid Prime games. When the sequel, Tropical Freeze, was announced […]
Asssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag was among my favorite games of last year. Ubisoft finally perfected the combination of open world exploration and combat with a lovable protagonist. Unfortunately the Freedom Cry DLC, now recently released as a standalone game, gets almost every aspect of that formula wrong. Players take control of Adewale, who was the quartermaster […]
Bravely Default is such an odd duck when it came to bringing the game to the worldwide market. We have seen Nintendo localize select third-party games to help strengthen and diversify the lineup of their hardware, and so they localize games like Square-Enix’s Bravely Default versus their own JRPG made by Final Fantasy alumni, The […]
The LEGO Movie: The Videogame is exactly as crazy as it sounds. Actually, it’s more crazy than it sounds. It is an excellent movie tie-in, perhaps one of the best ever. The cutscenes are ripped straight out of the movie, so the plot follows perfectly in line with the film. Restrictive source material is often […]
Only one rhythm game franchise has made to the next generation of consoles out of so many that made the genre popular again last generation. I didn’t think anyone expected Ubisoft’s Just Dance franchise to that one when it first began a few years ago compared to other franchises such as Guitar Hero, Rock Band, […]
One of Nintendo’s surprises last Christmas was the announcement of NES Remix and then it came out the next day after the Nintendo Direct. NES Remix is a downloadable eShop game that takes some of your favorite and “not so favorite” NES classics and reduce them to quick mini-games along with adding some twists to […]
One of the surprise announcements during the December 18th Nintendo Direct was that another Luigi game was hitting the Wii U before the year’s end, this time a new spin on Nintendo’s classic puzzle series, Dr. Mario. Appropriately named Dr. Luigi, this eShop title brings the series to Wii U, but unfortunately it does little […]
It can be tough making a sequel to a twenty-year old game. A generation of gamers has been born and raised, and you must relay the fact that not only did the game existed before even they ever did, but that it is worth your attention amid all the newer tech that surrounds them. If […]
If you would ask me what my favorite games are, I’d answer with the 3D Mario titles. I would personally put Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy 2 in my personal top ten favorite games of all time, with the former being #1. I can remember the moment when I opened up my N64 […]
