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Donkey Kong Bananza (2025)

Donkey Kong Bananza (2025)

Donkey Kong, one of Nintendo’s oldest mascots has been treated like a second class citizen for quite a while. Even though the Donkey Kong Country games on the SNES are still touted as a top tier platformer, and gold standard, the series keeps getting put on the backburner. It’

Ninja Gaiden: RageBound (2025)

Ninja Gaiden: RageBound (2025)

One of my earlier memories from childhood was the Ninja craze of the 80’s, thanks to the Karate Kid movies. I actually ended up taking karate for a couple years at a very young age. There was an all nighter event at our dojo and I remember staying up

Doom: The Dark Ages (2025)

Doom: The Dark Ages (2025)

I never really “got” Doom until last year. I grew up in a Christian home and so the idea of a Hell game with demons was just never going to fly in my house. I was always more transfixed on fighting human enemies anyways, so the Wolfenstien series was more

The Midnight Walk (2025)

The Midnight Walk (2025)

Take The Nightmare Before Christmas, give it a bit of a twist and put it into a game and you have The Midnight Walk. That might sound derogatory although it's not, because The Midnight Walk actually is pretty much guaranteed to be in my top 10 this year. Why? First

Metroid Prime Remastered (2025)

Metroid Prime Remastered (2025)

ℹ️Developer: Retro Studios Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: February 8th 2023 Platform played on: Nintendo Switch Time to complete: 17 Hours and 48 Minutes When Metroid Prime originally came out in 2002, I wasn’t a big fan of Nintendo or the Metroid series. It always intrigued me when people

Sniper Elite: Resistance (2025)

Sniper Elite: Resistance (2025)

Sniper Elite has been a fallback game for me, mostly due to the series not veering too far off the comfortable path they have carved out for themselves over the years. With gameplay taking front and center stage, it’s hard for me to get really excited about yet another

Cold VR (2025)

🥶Review Date: February 8th 2025 Developer: Allware LLC Publisher: Perp Games Release Date: February 11th 2025 Price: $19.99 Platform Reviewed On: PCVR (Steam) Time To Complete: 2 Hours Cold VR takes the concept of SuperHot, where time moves when you do, and reverses the idea. Instead time slows down

Pirates VR: Jolly Roger (2025)

Pirates VR: Jolly Roger (2025)

🏴‍☠️ Review Date: January 15th 2025 | 2025-01-15 Developer: Split Light Studio Publisher: VRKiwi Release Date: January 14th 2025 Price: $19.99 Platform played on: PCVR (Steam) Time to complete: 3 Hours Two of my favorite things in games, Virtual Reality and Pirates get combined in Pirates VR: Jolly Roger! An exploration

Satisfactory (2024)

Satisfactory (2024)

There is nothing more satisfying than clearing out a checklist to me. And with that, I’ll try to leave the “Satisfying” pun alone when talking about Satisfactory. Sure the name kinda is a bit too tongue in cheek for me, but it does fit well with what the game

Trombone Champ: Unflattened (2024)

Trombone Champ: Unflattened (2024)

Trombone Champ: Unflattened is the first game developed and released from the newly created Flat2VR Studio. They started off as a simple VR modding scene and quickly became so popular they ended up forming a studio and getting contracts with some publishers in the industry to create full on VR

Ember Souls (2024)

Ember Souls (2024)

Ember Souls feels like it was born out of a need for a new Prince Of Persia game that we never got. It's a really enjoyable several hour game that puts you right into the jumping, swinging, wall running and combat of a 2003 classic. The main character Kasim travels

G.I. Joe: Wrath Of Cobra (2024)

G.I. Joe: Wrath Of Cobra (2024)

I grew up and was of the prime age for G.I. Joe. The 80’s and early to mid 90’s saw a boom in modern toys and cartoons for the Joes, and I was fully entrenched into most of them (or mostly the toys). I had all the

The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom (2023)

The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom (2023)

The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom, which is the sequel to 2017’s Breath Of The Wild is so vast and big, that I still feel that I barely scratched the surface of the game, even after completing it. Before getting into the actual game, I do need

Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 (2024)

Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 (2024)

After finally trying out and finishing Hellblade 1 on stream, I ended up jumping right into Hellblade 2… Oops, I mean “Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, a title so bafflingly generic and out of line with the original game that it already stumbles out of the gate of trying to

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice [VR Version] (2017)

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice [VR Version] (2017)

For years I heard nothing but great things about Hellblade. Praised not only for it’s amazing graphics, but mostly for it’s “realistic” interpretations of mental health and hearing voices/ Not to be confused with multiple personality disorder/schizophrenia, but just having different voices or people in your mind

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered (2024)

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered (2024)

Remasters are a bit tricky, as they don’t really offer anything new besides a facelift on modern platforms, but the remastered collection of the first three Tomb Raider games also gave Lara not just a new coat of paint, but really captured the magic and interesting choices of what

Cruis'n USA/World/Exotica (1996)

Cruis'n USA/World/Exotica (1996)

Cruis’n USA Starting off with the first game in the series, Cruis’n USA, the game that launched a very odd but ultimately enjoyable series, it was really interesting going back and playing through the first game. I originally remember the game due to its weird and very linear

Star Fox 2 (1996/2017)

Star Fox 2 (1996/2017)

Star Fox 2 is such an interesting game not just from the perspective of the game itself, but also taking into account its bizarre release and history. Star Fox 2 never officially released on the SNES like it was supposed to back in 1996. Instead, while it was being prepped

Star Fox 64 (1997)

Star Fox 64 (1997)

The technical second game in the Star Fox series (until 217’s mind blowing release of the Super Nintendo’s Star Fox 2), Star Fox 64 blew the doors off the sucker in the way we never could have imagined. The game took everything we loved about Star Fox and

Star Fox (1993)

Star Fox (1993)

The Super Nintendo was pretty much the king of the playground back when I played it. I didn’t get the system till much later in its lifespan, but when I did I rented every game under the sun. One of my absolute favorites to rent was Star Fox. Thanks

Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)

Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)

The Donkey Kong Country series was halted thanks to two major factors, one being Donkey Kong 64, a truly awful game, and the second being Microsoft purchasing Rare and really doing a poor job letting that company thrive. Rare’s demise is a story for another time, but the Donkey

Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown (2024)

Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown (2024)

The initial reveal of Prince of Persia was not a good one, while the gameplay itself looked fairly decent, even though no one was expecting a side scrolling exploration game with gated progress (or also known as the terribly named “Metroid-vania” genre). The real issue was the tone the trailer

Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble (1996)

Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble (1996)

Release at the end of the Super Nintendo’s life cycle, well after the Nintendo 64 debut in North American, Donkey Kong Country 3 brings a new Kong adventure onto the system. Using more of the familiar Pre-Rendered graphics that now were starting to loose it’s appeal thanks to

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995)

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995)

Like all true great sequels, Donkey Kong Country 2 takes what worked well with the first Donkey Kong Country game, and just gave us more and bigger amounts of everything. More enemies, more worlds, more animal companions. Bigger and badder bosses, level designs and even bonus stages. To say that

Donkey Kong Country (1994)

Donkey Kong Country (1994)

Back in 1994, the Super Nintendo was in full swing, with the Nintendo 64 a few years off, Rare came out with Donkey Kong Country. What became a franchise and brought Donkey Kong back into relevance and also launched a cartoon using CGI (which was awful). But this platformer also