Category: Review
Last Blade, The
Bakumatsu Roman: Gekka no Kenshi (“Moonlight Swordsmen”), also known as The Last Blade everywhere outside of Japan (except in Korea, where it’s called The …
Assault Trooper
There’s big trouble in Little Third World: missiles are being stockpiled in Panama, people are held against their will all …
GUNbare! Game Tengoku – The Game Paradise 2
GUNbare! Game Tengoku is the second game in the series, developed solely for the PlayStation. The title is a word …
Game Tengoku – The Game Paradise!
The Game Tengoku duo of games is to Jaleco what the Parodius series is to Konami – shoot-em-up featuring characters from their older games, …
Toment: Tides of Numenera
Warning: this article contains major spoilers for Torment: Tides of Numenera and Planescape: Torment Torment in times of Kickstarter As the success of …
Dungeon Hack
Rogue, first published in 1980, laid the foundation for the dungeon crawler genre, and also created an entire sub-genre of …
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 …
