I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was walking through my local Hollywood Video with my Mom when one game in particular caught my eye: Paper Mario. I had to have it. It was decidedly one of the core pieces of my childhood, intertwining itself in sleepovers, my first all-night game session, everything. If you were anything like me you had the same experiences: playing Thousand Year Door, loving it, playing Super Paper Mario… kind of loving it. Then we got...
Let me just get this out of the way, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures is a silly, silly game. Don’t take that as a slight on this entertaining and at times challenging platformer, however. In this case, silly is just what the doctor ordered. Though not without its faults, of which there are a few, Namco Bandai has done a commendable job of translating the current animated series to Nintendo’s handheld. Ghostly Adventures is not Pac-Man as you know and love him...
Accelerate. Crash. Crash. Turn. Crash. Accelerate. Crash. Scream. Accelerate. Toss 3DS. Scream. Brake. Accelerate. Repeat. Flying through an underground world at 500mph, trying not to crash and improving your time; that is what AiRace Speed is all about. It’s also about frustration, which is something that you are almost certain to experience during your playthrough. AiRace Speed, from developer QubicGames, is basically a series of increasingly difficult and challenging...
SteamWorld Dig, the new 3DS eShop game from Swedish developer Image & Form is a breath of fresh air. An engrossing, subterranean adventure from start to finish with equal parts The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Dig Dug and Metroid, SteamWorld Dig is a gem among other 3DS downloadable games. Taking place in a distant future where mankind is merely legend, SteamWorld puts you into the mining boots of Rusty the Steambot, a stranger who recently inherited an old mine from his...
There was a time in the past generation when it seemed the classic 2D platformer was all but lost. Old-school franchises like Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog had become 3D and mere shadows of their former glory, with almost all of the difficulty stripped away in order to appeal to a younger or more casual audience. Then three years ago, Donkey Kong Country Returns was released for the Nintendo Wii and veteran gamers were overjoyed. Developed by Retro Studios, best known...
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