Retro

Its Dragon Quest’s 35th Anniversary this year! What does Square Enix have in store for the game? Well, we’ll find out later this month! Square will have an Anniversary stream on youtube. For the first time, English viewers will get to understand whats going on too! On May 26th, Square Enix will have a Dragon Quest 35th Anniversary special stream. It will reveal the upcoming lineup for the Dragon Quest series. Usually this kind of stream would be in Japanese…

There are some games from the NES era that we never got in the West. Nintendo has started bringing some of them over like Earthbound Beginnings on the Wii U and the very first Fire Emblem on the Switch. And now Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir and Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind have been translated and will be on the Nintendo Switch soon. Are these games any good? Here is our two-in-one review of the Famicom Detective Club games!

Zombies At My Neighbors is coming to the Nintendo Switch! This Lucasfilm classic game will be released in June with its sequel Ghoul Patrol. Check out the trailer below and then come back for some thoughts on the games. Disney Interactive is bringing two Lucasfilm classic games to the Switch on June 28th. The games are Zombies Ate My Neighbors and its sequel Ghoul Patrol. The two games will be in one download and feature save states (saving anywhere), local…

Pac-man 99 is available for Nintendo Switch Online owners and I’ve been a playing it a little. What do I think? Do you have 99 hours? Kidding! I do have some thoughts though. When Pac-man 99 was surprise announced…I was delighted. Seriously. C’mon. Its frelling Pac-man! And in a game where you are trying to survive as long as you can in a game of Pac-man against other players. Just a really cool idea. Pac-man 99 is another game that…

Mario is dead. Okay, not really but Mario 35 is gone. So what’s next for Nintendo Switch Online members? Well…how about Pac-man 99?! Pac-man 99 will be coming to the Nintendo Switch tomorrow at 6 PM PST according to Nintendo of America’s twitter. It will be a Nintendo Switch Online exclusive game like Mario 35 and Tetris 99. It will also have paid off-line DLC much like Tetris 99. The DLC will be available at launch. So what do I…

Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World is a remake a classic platformer and its coming to the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, and STEAM this year. Check out the newest trailer and information below. According to a recent press release we received, the Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World “will be available for €39.99” in the UK and “include the original Monster World IV”. The retail version will be coming out “Q2/2021 for North America, Europe and Australia.” As for the…

There is a tipping point — different for every gamer — where the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze in a game. I reached that point in Yacht Games’ newly released Cyber Shadow a little more than halfway through.   The game demands precise platforming and measured combat, harshly punishing even slight errors. There is so much to like about the game, but after running through the same section 20 30 40 times, I broke. I turned off the game…

GRAVEN is an immersive, dark fantasy first person adventure with a late-90s graphical aesthetic

Last night, Nintendo updated the Switch. Most of the time, the updates add very little but this time we got a pretty big update! The most noticeable change is a new addition to the Switch menu: a red icon amongst the other icons like the News channel and the photo collection. What do this new icon do? What do I think of it? Let’s talk about it! The newest addition to the Nintendo Switch’s menu is a Nintendo Switch Online…

The Last Blade: Beyond the Destiny is a retro Neo Geo Pocket Color fighting game. If you liked the Neo Geo Pocket Color and this game, you’ll like this. If you don’t know what a Neo Geo Pocket Color is or you’re only vaguely familiar…well…here’s a review! The Last Blade: Beyond the Destiny is a retro Neo Geo Pocket Color fighting game. It has not been updated. Its graphics and gameplay are as they always have been. The game is…