Category: Review

Plok!

While we may have idyllic recollections of what the 16-bit era of gaming was like, it’s hard to downplay the

Crisis Beat

When 3D began taking over in the mid ’90s, the beat-em-up genre was already past its prime. Attempts at translating

Lucifer Ring

Just six months after Crisis Beat, Softmachine released a somewhat more successful second attempt at a 3D beat-em-up anonymously through publisher

Splatter Master

The star of Splatter Master is a pumpkin-headed scarecrow child who packs twin chainsaws. He’s the perfect protagonist for the setting he

Alwa’s Awakening

Alwa’s Awakening fashions itself as a lost NES game, a Metroidvania from the era of The Goonies II, Wonder Boy III and…well, Metroid and Castlevania II. It

Dr. Chaos

Every game system has its super A-list golden games and franchises that everyone knows, terrible games that are notorious for

Darkside Story

Darkside Story looks and feels like one of those beat-em-ups that tried to ride on the popularity ignited by the genre’s

Deep Fear

The majority of the Sega Saturn’s import library is dedicated to classic shoot ’em ups, licensed anime properties, nudity laden

IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix

The PS2 has a (well-earned) reputation as a licensed game garbage dump, and you’d expect a game like this to

80 Days

Jules Verne’s classic adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days has been a popular target for adaptations of widely different style,

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