Santa Claus Jr. Advance
Released just over a year later for the still recent Game Boy Advance, Santa Claus Jr. Advance is quite different …
Santa Claus Junior
German developer NEON Software is perhaps best known for their PS2 cult title Legend of Kay, but they were also …
Daze Before Christmas
In the early 90s, Norwegian developer Funcom made their trade with licensed platformers based on animated films (Disney’s Pocahontas, A …
She Sees Red
(CONTENT WARNING: This game features bloody violence, a scene of very mild nudity, and implied parental abuse) Interactive movies; a …
Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
After a few middling sequels and a short-lived reboot, the Spyro series wound down while its main character began appearing …
Alto’s Odyssey
Making a sequel to a successful endless runner is always going to be difficult, since you want to maintain what …
Alto’s Adventure
If there’s any genre that was defined by the mobile gaming boom of the late 00s/early 10s, it’s the endless …
Speed Punks
In 1994, Norwegian developer Funcom founded an office in Dublin, Ireland to create console games while they focused on developing …
Dragon Egg
NCS/Masaya are best known for creating the legendary Langrisser series and the bizarre Choaniki games, but they developed many other …
Hakaiou: King of Crusher
(WARNING: This review spoils the ending of Hakaiou: King of Crusher, as part of the overall thematic analysis. If you’d …
Nekketsu Oyako
When most people think of Technosoft, it’s usually for their technically impressive Thunder Force games or the groundbreaking Herzog Zwei. …
PaRappa the Rapper: Other Media
MilkCan – Make it Sweet! (1999) / PJ & Parappa – I Scream! (1999) Um Jammer Lammy enjoyed a lot …
PaRappa the Rapper 2
By late 2001, the rhythm-action genre was making waves round the world, with Konami putting out about a dozen hugely …
Um Jammer Lammy
While PaRappa the Rapper proved to be quite popular, selling three million copies and gaining a notable cult following, its …
PaRappa the Rapper
If there’s a game that defines the impact and possibilities that the original PlayStation brought to video gaming, it’s PaRappa …
