The impossible Klonoa Review The current consensus of Klonoa: Phantasy Reverie series is split into two distinct camps. If you look at modern game critics, Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series is a good – if not great – collection of two side scrollers that serves as a time capsule of the…
Elden Ring’s easy mode builds aren’t features. Look, I like Elden Ring. It’s the new hotness courtesy of From Software, it had better review scores than Breath of the Wild at one point, and it’s so beloved that even criticizing Elden Ring’s UI is considered blasphemy. Of course, being a…
The Feh Pass is worse than a “meh” pass. Fire Emblem Heroes was once the darling of the mobile gacha genre, but it has long since turned into a prolonged exercise in testing the fortitude of its player base. Case in point: after roughly a year of community unrest about…
Should you buy a Nintendo Switch now or later? With the holidays around the corner, you might be tempted to pick up a new Nintendo Switch. After all, between the Link’s Awakening remake, Dragon Quest XI, and new Pokémon games, who wouldn’t want to take advantage of some sweet end-of-year…
Creepypastas made real by the power of blast processing. I admit it, I’m a sucker for internet creepypastas. Sure, spooky internet urban legends aren’t always good. Heck, most of them are honestly kind of bad. But whether it’s a story about a haunted video game or a twisted Russian experiment,…
Party Video Games perfect for any occasion. What is the perfect party video game? You’d think the party game genre would be easy to crack, but not even Mario Party can consistently get it right. And if a game with “Party” right in the title might be a bomb, what…
Bullet Hell 101 Bullet Hell is a sub-genre of video games in which the player has to defeat an onslaught of enemies while dodging an overwhelming number of projectiles. Bullet Hell games in Japan are called “danmaku,” which can be roughly translated as “bullet curtain.” Bullet Hell games are typically…
Test your mastery with a Pokémon Challenge Run. I don’t need to tell you that Pokémon games are fun to play over and over again. But for a lot of us, Pokémon games eventually get too easy. Sure, Pokémon Trainer Red and Ultra Necrozma have some bite, but it’s only…
Could Switch Online bring these Japan Only titles west? It finally happened. Announced at the end of the September 2019 Nintendo Direct, the Switch Online service has a catalog of Super Nintendo titles for gamers to play at home and on the go. But amid the high profile release…
Dragon Quest 101. Dragon Quest is a Japanese Role-Playing Game franchise that began in 1986. It was originally called Dragon Warrior in the West due to licensing issues, but it has been called Dragon Quest worldwide since 2005. The series is widely considered the originator of the jRPG genre as…
