Super Smash Bros.

If there was anything that defines the 2020s era of videogames, surely it’s the notion of crossover games. From Dead by Daylight bringing together a multitude of horror franchises together in one big asymmetrical hunter-hunted game to the ever-ubiquitous Fortnite shovelling IP after IP into its unendingly popular battle-royale-with-base-building format, the contemporary era of nerdom …

Indivisible

I feel like finally playing Indivisible was the end of a weird, years-long journey. I can remember first seeing it during its impressively popular crowdfunding campaign way back in 2015, where it attracted attention thanks to its gorgeous hand-drawn animation and because it was being made by the team behind the fighting game Skullgirls. While …

Street Fighter

If you’ve been following along with this blog, you might well be aware that for a while now I’ve been dutifully plodding through one of the most venerable fighting game franchises out there, Tekken. We’re quite a ways through the franchise now, but a recent interaction with a dear friend of mine reminded me that …

Tekken 4

When it comes to a series as venerable and reliable as Tekken, I find myself surprised at the reaction to Tekken 4. Of the previous Tekken games I’ve reviewed - that is, Tekken, 2, 3, and Tag Tournament - all were games I’d played in to greater or lesser extents before, and I also spent …

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years of doing this blog, I can never really predict just what games will and won’t resonate with me. I’ve had games I think would be an obvious love turn into absolute dead rubbers, and I’ve also had the converse, where an otherwise unassuming title winds up …

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

Over the years I’ve been doing this blog there have definitely been games I’ve always intended to review. This has mainly been for nostalgic reasons, which I’m sure makes sense; after all, like any nerd with a platform, I just want to share the things I love with the world but at great and overly …

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly

Quite a long time ago now I reviewed the Reignited remakes of the original Spyro trilogy. I return to these reviews in my personal reflections more than I think you’d realise (yes I do read my old reviews, they are made for me after all!). An abiding thought that sticks with me is that for …

Speed Dating for Ghosts

I don’t know about you, but I usually tend to stay away from dating sims. For the uninitiated, dating sims are typically a subset of visual novels that (broadly) focus on your character building relationships with a range of potential romance interests and then taking one of them out on a date. It’s a genre …

Tekken Tag Tournament

Among fighting games on the original PlayStation, Tekken was an undisputed pillar. As we’ve discussed in earlier reviews, the technological leaps that the series showcased as it moved through its iterations were, for the time, immense, as was the way in which it brought 3D movement into the contemporary fighting game scene. This left it …

Futurama

When I first started replaying The Simpsons: Hit & Run about a month back, I - as I am wont to do - posted about it on my socials. In the replies was a fellow blogger who mentioned that they were thinking of playing it despite my rough experience with it, but that they also …