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Review – Agent 64: Spies Never Die
It's like Goldeneye never left us! Sort of. Agent 64: Spies Never Die wears the skin of Rare's venerable N64 classic, but that leaves it some big shoes to fill. Can any game hope to even compare?
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Review – Meat Grinder: Hotdog Simulator
You hungry for hot dogs? Meat Grinder is a horror game centered around digging up graves and turning those corpses into tube meat. And no one would know the difference. Are you hungry for hot dogs now?
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Review – The Mermaid Mask
Sally and her sidekick, Detective Grimoire, are back for another adventure. But can Adam Vian and SFB Games deliver yet another narrative success? Yes, they can. That's not very surprising.
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Review – 70s-style Robot Anime: Geppy-X
Get ready for some grand theme songs belted out against a backdrop of robot carnage. Geppy-X reaches into the 70s to pluck out a fond parody. Now you don't need four discs to fit all that anime.
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Review – Wax Heads
I can smell that fresh vinyl already. Wax Heads puts you behind the counter at a record shop. Can you make the recommendations? Can you handle the drama? Can you rise above? Probably! It's not really a game you can fail at.
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Review – MOLE
Sometimes you just want to crawl into a hole, and that's what MOLE is all about. Except it's a spooky hole. One that talks to people and makes them feel bad things. Navigate your giant drill deep into the Earth and tell it to stop.
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Review – Operation Night Strikers
What happens when you take four very arcade games away from the arcade? You get a compilation of ports of four very arcade games. Operation: Wolf, Operation: Thunderbolt, Night Striker, and Space Gun come together for some reason in Operation Night Strikers.
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Review – Astronook
As my son’s obsession with all things space and planets continues to grow, I keep my eye open for games that might allow him to explore what he loves even deeper. Astronook caught my attention because it’s a so-called “cozy” experience, which definitely sounds perfect for a three-year-old. I’ll tell you what’s not cozy: trying to solve way-too-intense connect-the-dot puzzles…
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Review – R-Type Dimensions III
R-Type is a series with remarkable consistency. You can ask a group of fans what their favourite title is and almost every entry will be represented. For me, it’s R-Type III: The Third Lightning, but that might be because I love the SNES. Also, I’ve only played the first three games. Released in 1993 on SNES, R-Type III was the…
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Review: inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories.
Last year, I found myself in a bit of a reading frenzy with books about shops, stores, cafes, and similar neighborhood establishments. I devoured the likes of Robert Seethaler’s The Cafe with no Name, Kim Ho-Yeon’s The Second Chance Convenience Store, and—to a lesser extent—Mai Mochizuki’s The Full Moon Coffee Shop as I sought the comfort of their feel-good dramas…
