Donkey Kong Country Returns was one of the best games of the year when it was released back in 2010. Since then, it has gone down in the annals of gaming history as a textbook example of refined, almost perfect game design, and is still used as something of a measuring stick by which all other [...]

By this point it should be obvious that, if you’re going into space, it might be best to take a full battle squadron rather than a single ship. Every single time something goes horribly wrong, resulting in a lonely scramble for survival in the dark reaches between stars. The Starship Damrey is yet another in [...]

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers has an exorbitantly long name, and far too many subtitles. It also happens to be a 3DS remake of the late 90s Sega Saturn and PlayStation classic that never left Japan’s shores. Therefore, it’s essentially a port of a sixteen year old game — though this isn’t the [...]

Poor Luigi. He’s always second banana to Mario, running behind in a futile attempt to escape his brother’s shadow. Even when he gets a game all to himself, it takes almost 12 years to earn a sequel. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon continues Luigi’s ghost hunting side-job, and while the atmosphere, characters, ghosts, and overall story [...]

Few titles describe their game as succinctly as Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. You hunt monsters, this is the third(ish) entrant in the series, and truly is the ultimate version of the game. Originally released on the Wii as Monster Hunter Tri, the core game was supplemented with so much new stuff that this enhanced version [...]

Super Black Bass 3D isn’t just another fishing game — it’s the latest entry in the series that invented the genre. First released in 1986 (that’s twenty seven years for those keeping score) for the Japanese MSX home computer, the game was ported to the NES a few years later. Even though it was met [...]

Although Castlevania has had its ups and downs in the twenty seven years since its inception, its continual existence feels like a warm blanket. In a world with modern video game dynamics and themes dominating the marketplace, sometimes it’s nice to revisit the gameplay and tone of these classic franchises, which is exactly what Castlevania: [...]

Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan is the pinnacle of its series. While it might not break new ground with wholly original mechanics, it without a doubt refines the first-person dungeon delving for which the franchise is known; it uses all the same concepts as previous seen and experienced, but just simply does them [...]

Johnny’s had a busy year in 2012. He’s been in LCD and beat-em up adventures, had Western shootouts, and now has to do the impossible — stop Dr. Wang from unleashing his giant laser upon the world. In order to stop a laser-guided doomsday, Johnny becomes a spy and goes through a variety of levels [...]

The third part of the Guild 01 compilation has finally come to the 3DS eShop. So far, its piece-meal approach has allowed players to partake in an excellent on-rails shooter with some of the best graphics on the system in Liberation Maiden and Aero Porter, which offered up a very unique luggage sorting puzzle game with [...]