I have been a huge fan of the Legend of Heroes franchise for a very long time. In fact, I would go so far as to say that they are at the top of my “Most Underrated franchises” list in terms of…
Monkey King: Hero is Back may have been released in 2019 but it really feels at home in the PlayStation 2 era. Monkey King is filled with an abundance of loading screens, repetitive and bland combat, a fractured story, window dressing abilities and some…
I recently felt the desire to spend some time with 2017’s addition to NetherRealm Studios’ collection of fighting games; as I hadn’t done so in quite some time according to Steam. Of course, I’m referring to Injustice 2, the direct sequel to…
I did not get a chance to play The Alliance Alive on the Nintendo 3DS when it originally released. In fact, it was one of those games that I always intended to buy, but never really had the chance. However, now that…
The RPG Maker line of game-making-software has been a hit in the indie developer community. This line of engines, made by Enterbrain, is mainly geared toward making RPGs, though plenty of people have used it for adventure games and visual novel-type stuff.…
When I first started dabbling in PC gaming, my options were limited. I was working with a good-not-great HP laptop, and I found a lot of the things I wanted to play just weren’t going to happen. Browsing Steam for great games…
The original Aeternoblade was a game I always had my eye on, but never quite had the desire to pick up for myself. At the risk of sounding like a bit of a snob, I tend to focus my purchases on things…
I am a villain. No, really; the first thing I did when I was given the option to enact a new law in the frozen tundra of my new city was child labor. Tropico 6, you might have all that humor business…
For a while, the Mario Party franchise was considered to be in a rut. Mario Party 9 changed the franchise’s formula of characters running all over the board for stars, to everyone moving in the same car set down a nearly linear…
Great arcade games usually have a simple premise. Pac-Man literally eats little dots. Donkey Kong asked you to just not get hit with things. Data East’s 1982 game BurgerTime had a simple premise: make a burger, and avoid enemies. Now, some 37 years later, a new BurgerTime game…