Category: Review
Papers, Please
Papers, Please is many things. Papers, Please is one of the first games to come up in any discussion about …
Crime City
Crime City is basically Taito’s take on side-scrolling action games like Namco’s Rolling Thunder and Sega’s Shinobi. The goal, per …
Solomon’s Key (Spinoffs / Ripoffs)
Zipang (ジパング ) – PC Engine (1990) For some unfathomable reason, the 1990 Japanese fantasy samurai film Jipangu/Zipang spawned not …
Monster Rancher Explorer
Monster Rancher Explorer is yet another reinvention of the original 1986 Solomon’s Key, and yet another example of a popular …
Solomon’s Key
For some reason Japanese retro gamers often fondly remember old arcade games that are nowadays seen as ridiculously difficult, frustrating …
Fire ‘n Ice
Solomon’s Key 2 is a follow-up that came out in 1992 but only for Nintendo’s 8-bit console. North American NES …
Guacamelee! 2
With Metroidvanias being one of the more popular genres to appear in independent gaming, Guacamelee definitely stood out as one …
RoboCop 2 (Arcade)
Ocean retained the RoboCop license for all of the subsequent console and computer versions, none of which were very good. …
World of Goo
World of Goo is, without a doubt, one of the single most important modern indie games, released in 2008 and …
Sunless Skies
Sunless Skies is, in many ways, the game that Sunless Sea should have been. This time, Failbetter finally becomes comfortable …
