Putting the stupid naming convention of EA’s Skate aside, it’s a game and series that tried to take on gaming’s skateboarding genre that was well established by Tony Hawk and his Pro Skater series. Instead of just copying the layout and using the same formula, Skate really

I’m terrible at fighting games, and I’ve never really been much of a competitive type of person to begin with. So when a new fighting game comes out, I very rarely ever get into them. I just don’t enjoy fighting against the person I’m hanging out

I lived in a small lake based mountain community for around 10 years, and while it wasn’t quite as small as the city of Providence Oaks in Lake is, it felt like I was back home. Lake takes place in a small lakeside town in 1980’s Oregon, and

I’m surprised by a couple things with Lucky’s Tale, one, that it’s a franchise that seems to have put out a few games now, and no one talks about it. And two, that the reason no one talks about it, is partially the fault of the naming

Somewhere along the 5th game in the series, I lost all interest in the Halo franchise. ODST with its weird offshoot story, and Reach being at the end of the 360’s lifespan, along with Bungie no longer the developers of their own game… I just didn’t care about

Arkane games are a bit of a missing piece of my gaming background. When Dishonored came around, I was captivated by its artstyle, reminding me very much of Bioshock mixed with Half-Life 2. But sadly the gameplay itself relied so heavily on stealth that I really didn’t get into

Ever being the fair champion of giving something the benefit of the doubt, I finally sat down and gave a fair shot to the SNES version of Aladdin. Already going in to it knowing the Genesis version was the superior version, I do admit I was kinda rooting for this

When Metroid Dread was released in October of 2021, it kicked off the newest gaming obsession of mine, and allowed me to finally start the journey of playing through the other half of the genre known to most as  “MetroidVanias”. In 2019, I played through the Castlevania series, and now

My journey to play the whole Metroid series in chronological storyline order was immediately fraught with issues the moment I decided to start. Playing Zero Mission as it’s a remake of the first game with extra stuff padded in went well enough, but after having to make a decision

Paratrooping a car out of a cargo plane and landing on an active volcano and racing down it is a great opener for a game all about crazy and exciting racing. The Forza series has been split in twain for quite a long time now, and with each new entry

Now that I have played through two full Metroid games, it was finally time to get to the one most hold up and not only the best Metroid, not only one of the best Super Nintendo games, but also one of the best games of all time period. Super Metroid

AM2R or also know as “Another Metroid 2 Remake” is a bit weird to review, being that it’s not an official game; it’s a fan made remake that only is available on PC and actually received a DMCA notice from Nintendo making sure that the creator stopped working

Unpacking is a very simple game, that tells what I believe is a personal story of the developer’s life. No real text or words show up in the game, and it’s all through context that you get the idea of what is happening. Just like the title suggests,

Marvel’s video games have always been hit and miss, even back in the 8-bit days. Some games were great, some completely unplayable. Super Heroes have entered into this super ultra mega pop-culture realm a bit over a decade ago, and since then, we have had what feels like hundreds

FarCry is a weird series for me. I remember when the original game came out on PC and it was the one everyone was using to show off how amazing games could look, but when it veered into weird monsters on an island, I lost interest. When the second came

This one was a long time coming, and I honestly can’t believe it took me this long to finally play through a Metroid game. Thanks to Metroid Dread coming out this year, I got tired of feeling left out in the cold and decided it was high time to

Cruis'n' Blast is a 2017 arcade only game that was given a port to the Nintendo Switch in 2021, and what we get is a great port of a decent arcade title. When Cruis'n' USA came out on the Nintendo 64, it was one of the few launch window titles

Swallow The Sea is a short, and by short I mean around 15 minutes long game by an indie developer. Consisting of two friends, the dev team created more of a short story game than anything else, and even the concept of a story is barely there, but for whatever

Run based games have become extremely popular over the last several years. They go by different names, but really what they are at their core is games where you repeatedly restart the game and have to continue to progress further, and each time you restart, you will get permanent upgrades

I have a special place in my heart for the WarioWare series, and I’m not sure of exactly why. I don’t like Wario as a character, and each game is extremely short. But there is something about them that keeps me coming back with each new announcement.The