Category: Review
Beyond Shadowgate
Since Shadowgate found most of its success due to its NES incarnation, it made sense that it would stay in …
Psycho Dream
Psycho Dream, made by Telenet and Riot (Valis, El Viento), is one of those all too common lost action-platformers on …
Rule of Rose
Innocence can be the mindspring from which absurd rules and cruel behaviors are born … – Rule of Rose Rule of …
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
When you’re making a game, inspiration can come from the strangest of places. When a bunch of independent game developers …
Gondomania
The Gondos have stolen your women and taken them to the planet of thorns! Are you a bad enough dude …
Garyo Retsuden
Garyo Retsuden is a weird, overhead run-and-gun with a “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” motif. The heroes are three brothers: …
Kathy Rain
It’s been talked to death, but it bears mentioning that probably nothing will ever quite match the weirdness of Twin Peaks. …
Wonder Boy Returns
Unfortunately, Westone went out of business in 2014, and the intellectual properties were liquidated to a company called LAT. The …
Grim Fandango
“With bony hands I hold my partner On soulless feet we cross the floor The music stops as if to …
Gradius Rebirth
Gradius Rebirth, released as a WiiWare title in 2008, is somewhat of an inappropriate name. One might be tempted to …
Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny
When Rise of the Triad stopped being a Wolfenstein sequel, the “true” sequel was developed in-house at id Software. Spear of Destiny could be considered more …
Golden Axe II
Golden Axe II was developed solely for the Genesis, bypassing any arcade release. It’s perhaps a bit too much like …
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein
Muse Software’s sequel to Castle Wolfenstein sends you back into Nazi Germany, this time with the ultimate goal of assassinating Adolf Hitler. …
Castle Wolfenstein
What would you think is the best “generic” type of enemy in a video game? If you thought of Nazis, …
