Games reviewed… eventually
I don’t think I’ve ever made any secret of being a child of the PlayStation generation, and one thing that comes with that is being a great lover of colourful mascot platformers. The mascot platformer was once the great colossus of the gaming landscape, with titles like Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong, Spyro and Crash Bandicoot exerting … Continue reading Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
Like the rest of the known universe, I love Batman. It doesn’t seem to matter what he’s in, or how often DC shows me another rehash of his tragic origin story, I still find myself consuming pretty much any and every piece of Batman media I can find. There’s something endearing about his earnest gloominess … Continue reading LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
Super Mario Land might be my nostalgic first in terms of Mario games, but the sequel is where I spent far more of my time when it came to Game Boy platforming. While Super Mario Land was tasked with bringing Mario to Nintendo’s handheld in whatever form it could, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden … Continue reading Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
This one has been a difficult review to write. In fact, I don’t know whether I can even call this a review so much as a thinkpiece. As I write this, I don’t even know whether I think I can fairly score it as a game. But why, when this is a game so beloved … Continue reading Celeste
Here’s another piece of nostalgia! Like Link’s Awakening and Pokemon Red, Super Mario Land is one of the earliest games I can remember playing and owning. The Mario franchise is an institution; I’m certain that anyone who plays videogames has a Mario game they remember as “their” game. It’s probably either their first one or … Continue reading Super Mario Land
One thing I feel I’ve made pretty clear is that I love platformers. I might not always be very good at them, but growing up in the PS1 and N64 era left me inundated with fantastic platformers and a lasting love of the genre. It means that even to this day I’m always on the … Continue reading Knack
Here’s something I’m sure you’ve experienced before: a game which has a great idea but where the devs forget to build an actual game around it, leaving you with a painful frustration made worse because of how great the initial experience was. Whoops, that’s my opinion of Gravity Rush given away. Gravity Rush (PS4 [reviewed], … Continue reading Gravity Rush
I have great memories of Ratchet and Clank. One of the titans of the PS2 era of platformers, the trilogy was definitely a set of games I returned to with some regularity over the years, particularly after it saw a remaster on the PS3. I fell off a little after the series continued, though not … Continue reading Ratchet and Clank (2016)
Where do we draw the line between game and art? The debate is one which seems to attract divided responses, and perhaps one area which doesn’t help that conversation comes in the form of “art games”. Typically these seem to be games where the “game” part plays second fiddle to the “art”, but Bound seems … Continue reading Bound
I am a real sucker for a classic platformer. 3D platformers were a fixture in my youth, with games like Spyro, Crash, Sly Raccoon, Jak and Daxter, and Ratchet and Clank all games that were major formational parts of my gaming growing up. Some less successful titles did also cross my path, such as Ty … Continue reading Ape Escape 2
The Almighty Backlog 