Games From The Black Hole
R-Type Tactics – Charge n blast
Sometimes all a game needs is one good game mechanic; one thing that adds an original twist that can elevate an otherwise average game into something more engaging. R-Type Tactics has that one thing. It arguably has two. Both of them, of course, inherited from the classic 1987 shoot-‘em-up from which it originates.
Demonschool – Stylish strategy
I’ve been looking forward to Demonschool for as long as I’ve known about it. As a creation of Necrosoft Games, run by veteran games journalist and Insert Credit podcaster, Brandon Sheffield, it comes from a group of people who seem to have very similar taste in games to me. What’s more, it’s a tactics RPG,…
Boktai – The sun is sometimes in your hand
When I first heard about Boktai as an obsessive gamer in my early twenties, I knew I just had to play it. This was Hideo Kojima’s first release for a Nintendo system… A new vampire killing adventure from Konami… A mini stealth-action game in which the protagonist shares a name with Franco Nero’s 1963 spaghetti…
Super Mario 64 – 120 stars of destiny
A few weeks ago, my four-year-old daughter was playing around with the My Mario app on Nintendo Switch. It’s a cute little free app that’s part of a range of toys and experiences designed to get kids into Mario, and I think it’s worked. My daughter somehow seems obsessed, with very little influence from me,…
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