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Game Complaint Department’s Game of the Year 2017
The first year of Game Complaint Department's (before it was Maximum Utmost) Game of the Year "awards." I should have come up with a dumber, flashier title. I can't believe I've been running this site since 2017. Really, what the hell? I still feel like I'm new at this.
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3 Games for the Christmas Season
While I don’t have much stake in the religious side of the Christmas holiday, I enjoy the consumer side of things. One could deconstruct the event and pull out all the evils that exist within it, from borrowed cultural traditions to completely obvious ploys to get people to spend more, but when you get past all the indignation, you can…
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Review – Army Men: Sarge’s War
I'm kind of proud of this one, as I recognized the artistic intent behind Army Men: Sarge's War. I felt that it acted as an intention to end the series as it was passed from the bankrupt 3DO to Global Star. I talked to creative director Michael Mendheim later who confirmed it.
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Review – The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The original Legend of Zelda is one of the earliest games I remember experiencing, and the one I often cite as my gateway into the hobby. It’s a landmark title for me. For most of my gaming career, it remained one of my favourite series. However, my enthusiasm has waned after the last few entries disappointed to differing degrees. Twilight…
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Review – Army Men: Toys in Space
Released the same year as Army Men II on PC, but far worse Toys in Space is an early indication of the where the series was headed. While it seemed like Army Men II had refined the 2D PC formula, Army Men: Toys in Space fumbled it pretty hard.
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Review – Super Mario Odyssey
The Mario series has gone everywhere; from single-screen arcade games, to super, to lands, to worlds, to… 64’s and sunshines. Anecdotally, a lot of people were wondering where Mario could possibly go after Super Mario Galaxy. Super Mario Universe? Super Mario Continuum? We got Super Mario Galaxy 2, which coyly avoided the question; how do you go bigger than the Galaxy?…
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Jalopy and My Summer Car – A Tale of Two Cars
Since the dawn of 3D graphics, I’ve dreamt of a very specific sort of game; the road trip game. In those early days, the days of my pre-adolescence, I had no idea the limitations of the medium, nor any grasp on how a video game was constructed. Instead, when I saw Cruis’n USA for the first time, I believed it to be…
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Review – Star Fox 2
The only thing I ever remember seeing about Star Fox 2 back in the Super Nintendo days was an ad in Nintendo Power showing a stand-in box and logo. That was enough to get me excited. I was a huge fan of the original Star Fox, completely devouring every piece of media I could with the characters on it and…
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Review – Cuphead
I, like many people, was taken in initially by Cuphead’s art style. Capturing the look of animation’s golden era, with comma eyes and rubbery limbs, it has a distinct look that elevates it above many of its pixel art peers. The gameplay, on the other hand, looked pretty ho-hum and it appeared to be at risk of falling into the…
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Review – Army Men 2 (GBC)
Digital Eclipse followed up their Game Boy Color sort-of port of the first Army Men with a sort-of port of Army Men 2. Only this time, it's even more distinctly its own game. It doesn't so much try to replicate the PC title, but rather fit its themes on GBC.
