Gangs bullying civilians into submission, people carrying weapons, and main characters who know how to kick ass. We have here all the ingredients for a classic beat ’em up. Let’s head on down to Breakneck City. Take Me Down to Breakneck City Breakneck City is one of those traditional beat ’em up games in the […]
Following The Last Act, Snowhaven Studios presents another Original English Language Visual Novel (OELVN), this time a horror story set on Halloween day. Released for PC on 12 October 2021, Not It: Spookiest Edition is an updated version of Not It, an entry by the same team for the month-long Spooktober Visual Novel Jam in 2019. Highlights of the […]
When you have two colossal entities such as 90s Capcom and 90s SNK who are known for putting out the cream of the fighting game crop, you’re often thrust into a debate on who’s better. Capcom and SNK also had this debate and each had their own way of handling it; SNK decided that their […]
One of the best things to come out of the last decade-or-so is the resurgence of the tongue-in-cheekily named Boomer Shooter. Originally coined by Millenials to describe other Millenials, these shooters draw their power from ‘90s classics like DOOM, Quake, Blood, and Duke Nukem 3D. Dusk brings modern game design to a classic formula, and squirts […]
From the word go, Poker Club promises to offer an immersive Poker experience using realistic graphics and animations. To that end, I can say that the developers have succeeded in realizing this vision for it. Colors of a Gambler I played Poker Club on the Switch. It’s pretty much the perfect console for tabletop games […]
Ok, so 2021 was the Terminator 2 of solar cycles. It was built upon the solid foundation set by its predecessor, it was bigger, badder, and both had Arnold Schwarzenegger. Of course, being the perfect sequel to one of the worst years in recent history means, well, 2021 was pretty god damn awful. But, there […]
Revolution Software are known for their visionary approach to the puzzle adventure genre and with Beyond a Steel Sky (a spiritual successor to 1994’s Beneath a Steel Sky), they have coated a classic formula in a new sheen of paint. Having spent a great deal of my formative gaming years bending my head around the multilayered puzzles of […]
With visual novels becoming easier and easier to make these days, there are many creatives who put their stories out there through this format. As one might expect, this inevitably leads to the good ones being all the more difficult to find. While Perfect Gold is certainly no diamond in the rough, it does hold […]
The pre-3D era was an exciting time. Developers were using all kinds of visual shenanigans to give off the impression of 3D, without actually being 3D at all. Arcade games like Space Harrier pioneered and even perfected, this faux-3D look, and some even hold up today. Panorama Cotton, a game that was previously only released […]
Do you dream of reaching the stars? The ladies of Byakko do. Farther than the Blue Sky by ChuableSoft and MangaGamer follows the protagonist as he helps them to achieve their dream – to send a rocket into space. Rocket School Farther than the Blue Sky is set at a school meant to raise the […]