In 2017, Nintendo unveiled the Nintendo Switch, their latest gaming console. One of the key scenes near the end of the trailer showed a colorful arena with people playing Splatoon 2 on a grand stage. With a crowded arena cheering on the players, this leaned toward the notion that Nintendo…

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together came to the Super Famicom (SNES in Japan) in 1995. It received a port to the PlayStation and Sega Saturn several years later. The team behind Tactics Ogre — known formerly as Quest Corporation — also created Final Fantasy Tactics. This illustrious title for…

When DMC4 came out in 2008, for some reason I just never arsed myself to play it. Even though DMC1 and DMC3 are among my favorite games ever, DMC4 was a skip for me. Maybe it was — what I considered at the time to be — underwhelming reviews in…

As of this writing, I waited seven years to finally beat Bloodborne. While Elden Ring certainly spurred me on to beat the last From Software title I had yet to beat, even I still can’t believe it’s taken nearly a decade for me to decide to beat this game.

In 2013, Konami released Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. A spin-off of the illustrious Metal Gear series, it takes place four years after 2008's Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots. Starring Raiden, who first appeared in 2002’s Metal Gear Solid 2, the cyborg-ninja fights against a PMC faction raising child…

I have seldom played a better game than Elden Ring. While I know I’m supposed to save this kind of statement for the end of a review, I cannot contain my enthusiasm. This is quite possibly the greatest game ever made. Elden Ring is the first experience to truly…

With Pokemon Scarlet and Violet versions coming to Nintendo Switch later this month, I can’t help but feel excited about the upcoming titles. While I’ve been a Pokémon fan since way back in 1999, the last time I was this excited about Pokémon was when Gen II was coming out…

When you think of the best game to exist on a single console, how often do you think of more than one game in the same series? If you love the N64, chances are your favorite games include both The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask.

Metroidvania is a portmanteau of two legendary gaming franchises; Nintendo’s Metroid and Konami’s Castlevania. Both series started on the NES, in 1986, as side-scrolling titles. Metroid focused more on exploration while Castlevania was a straightforward platformer akin to Super Mario Bros. and Mega Man.