Category Archives: Game Reviews

The Baffling Design of Sonic Superstars

Sonic Superstars was one of the games I was interested in last year but decided to give a miss after seeing some of the more critical (read: negative) reviews. It also just released in a year of big releases and … Continue reading

Posted in Game Reviews, Video Games | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on The Baffling Design of Sonic Superstars

Fable Reconsidered

Quite a while back now, I wrote a review of the original Fable, mostly based on the Anniversary version which released around the same time. I had also meant to review both Fable II and Fable III but never got … Continue reading

Posted in Game Reviews, Video Games | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Fable Reconsidered

The Games of 2023

The Games of 2022 were so mediocre that I found it necessary to write about two older games I played that year so I could fill out the post. One might point out that I didn’t play many new games … Continue reading

Posted in Game Reviews, Video Games | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The Games of 2023

Pikmin 4 Review

Pikmin 4 was officially announced late last year and released on July 21st which was almost a decade to the day after the release of Pikmin 3 in 2013. In between these two releases there was the mediocre spinoff for … Continue reading

Posted in Game Reviews, Video Games | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Pikmin 4 Review

The Baffling Design of Sonic Frontiers

Sonic the Hedgehog didn’t have the successful transition into 3D that the Super Mario Bros. series did. While Super Mario 64 set the standard and remains a fun and engaging game to this day, the same can not be said … Continue reading

Posted in Game Reviews, Video Games | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on The Baffling Design of Sonic Frontiers

Jagged Alliance 3 Review

It has been over twenty four years since Jagged Alliance 2 released on PC which was the last major game in the series though a stand-alone expansion Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business was released in 2000 — a few years … Continue reading

Posted in Game Reviews, Video Games | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Jagged Alliance 3 Review

The Games of 2022

This is the third time I am doing this after last year and the year before. The difference this year is I played very few new games and all the ones I did were on Nintendo Switch. Though looking over … Continue reading

Posted in Game Reviews, Video Games | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The Games of 2022

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope Review

I reviewed the original and Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle and the Donkey Kong Adventure expansion a number of years ago around the time of release. It has been just over five years since the release of what turned out … Continue reading

Posted in Game Reviews, Video Games | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope Review

Singularity: Another Fascinating Failure

When thinking of a title for my post on Daikatana,  I decided on calling it a “fascinating failure” quite on my own. After having such a neat description come to mind, I couldn’t believe I could have been the first … Continue reading

Posted in Game Reviews, Video Games | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Singularity: Another Fascinating Failure

Towards a Heuristic for a GREAT Game

This post is the culmination of something I’ve been thinking about for a while but have never put into writing after years of playing, reading about and reviewing games. There are obviously a lot of problems with gaming journalism as … Continue reading

Posted in Game Reviews, Video Games | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Towards a Heuristic for a GREAT Game