Reviews Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x (2001) I remember when Tony Hawk 2 came out. I got it on the playstation, and was blown away by it, adding so many more new levels, new skaters, and the addition of the Manual, linking combos together in a much more satisfying way. I tried going back to the playstation
Reviews Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (2004) Warrior Within, the second in the newly founded “Modern” Prince of Persia series, is a direct sequel to the fantastic reboot The Sands of Time. The Prince, now troubled by releasing the Sands of Time in the first game has become war torn, grizzled and all around more unpleasant as
Reviews Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (2005) Coming to The Two Thrones 15 years later and finally getting a chance to see what all the fuss was about, well I can honestly say this is the best Prince of Persia game they made. It really has everything you’d want, not just from a Prince of Persia
Reviews Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003) It’s been over 17 years since I played Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. In the years since, I’ve always had fond memories of it and it was always a good example of gameplay that was not just fun, but also exciting. Blending exploration, traversal, combat and
Reviews Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018) Editor’s Note: There is an additional edit at the bottom of the original review, after I finished the game. I am writing this without finishing the game… because I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever finish this game. It is such a love letter to Ubisoft of
Reviews Streets Of Rage 4 (2020) Over twenty five years later, we finally have a fourth game in the Streets of Rage series, and in one of those rare occasions, the game turned out absolutely fantastic. The brawler genre has been lacking lately, especially in the “retro reboot” department. And when Streets of Rage 4 was
Reviews Super Mario 64 - PC Port/120 Stars (2020) There have been many “Gamer Bucket Lists” people have created over the years, and I’ve read a ton of them. One common checklist item is getting all 120 Stars in Super Mario 64. Something I sadly never have done. I always lost track at the end after getting all
Reviews Hollow Knight (2017) Map based exploration and platforming games instantly make me not want to play them, maybe because of it’s more common title, Metroidvania. Maybe it’s because I absolutely despise backtracking in games, and it makes the game have an artificial buffer of time added to it that serves no
Reviews Resident Evil 3: REmake (2020) Hot on the heels of last year’s amazing remake of Resident Evil 2, in Capcom’s own brand new RE Engine, they went ahead and remade the next game in the series, Resident Evil 3. As one who never really has liked the Resident Evil series, and only game
Reviews Black Mesa (2020) Half-Life has always been a blind spot in my gaming record. I remember when it came out and my friend Andrew loving it, I remember bits and pieces of it when I would go over his house and watch him play it. I wanted to get into it so badly
Reviews Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2020) Ori and the Will of the Wisps does what all good sequels do and takes everything I loved about The Blind Forest, and changes just enough to make it still feel familiar, while changing it up quite a bit. With this still being my initial foray into Metroidvania style games,
Reviews A Short Hike (2019) You play as Claire, a young Penguin who has been taken by her Aunt May to a vacation weekend on a small island. The island's main tourist spot is at the very top called “Hawk Peak”. Since there is no cell phone service on the island except for the top
Reviews Ori and the Blind Forest (2015) A couple years after Ori came out, I finally loaded it up and got about 20 minutes into it. Then I just dropped it. Why? I honestly don’t know. Maybe because back in 2017 I didn’t really like Metroidvanias that much, maybe because I wasn’t really in
Reviews Road Rash 3D (1998) Bringing Road Rash into the third dimension shouldn’t be too terribly difficult. Keep the same fast paced formula but transform the sprites into polygons right? Road Rash 3D tried and failed miserably. Sadly, there are a few interesting pieces here, underneath everything else that could have resembled a great
Reviews Road Rash [Playstation] (1996) Road Rash was always one of my favorite games when I first got my Genesis. The only memory of my Grandma ever picking up a controller was when she and I sat down and she finished a race in Road Rash, she stayed to one side of the road, never
Reviews BMX XXX (2002) Ugh, the less said about this game, the better. Basically, this game was supposed to be Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3, but the change in nature, to a more foul and nasty tone led Dave to not sign off on it. He made the right move. Right off the bat,
Reviews Aggressive Inline (2002) A game like Aggressive In-line is something of a rarity now-a-days. It only comes along once in a great while. I remember my first time with this game vividly, a hot summer day, taking a break from my first job and strolling through Blockbuster. Grabbing an ice cold Vanilla Coke
Reviews Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX: Maximum Remix (2001) Maximum Remix takes the first Dave Mirra game and adds a few new levels, songs and tweaks some of the original objectives of the first game and makes it a more complete package. Not much more can really be said about it. In modern terms this is much more of
Reviews Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 (2001) After years of only spending a grand total of maybe 10 minutes with Dave Mirra 2 on the original Xbox back in the mid aughts, I finally dug my heels in and sat down with a mission to complete this game that has eluded me for over a decade. My
Reviews Thrasher: Skate & Destroy (1999) Thrasher: Skate & Destroy came out just a bit after Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and I was in full blown Skateboarding fandom. I couldn’t get enough of skating and even though I was horrible at it in real life, I was able to fulfill my fantasies in video game
Reviews Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (2000) Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX came out a year after Tony Hawk, while I was right in the prime of my high school years. I remember playing the demo that took place in the woodward training camp, and just falling in love with it. Even for how much it was taking
Reviews Crash Bandicoot - N.Sane Trilogy (2017) Crash Bandicoot 1 Crash has always been a staple of the Playstation brand since the early days. With one of my earliest Playstation memories, the demo disc with PaRappa and Crash sitting in the kiosk at Warehouse. When the game was remade for the PS4 in 2017, I was excited
Reviews Spyro The Dragon 2 - Ripto's Rage: The Reignighted Trilogy (2019) Spyro 2, takes everything that the original game did, and added to it. One of the only small gripes I have with the sequel, is that gone are the variety of Dragons from the original game. Instead, those dragons are replaced with a few new “friends” who are a bit
Reviews Spyro The Dragon: Reignited Trilogy (2019) The original Spyro game was always a game that I remember fondly while never actually playing the full game. I remember the commercials, I remember playing the demo and loving it, but I never actually rented or owned the full game itself. I played the demo for the game on
Reviews The Outer Worlds (2019) Take the Fallout formula that Bethesda has used for the last decade or so, and transplant it into Outer Space. Trade in the huge post apocalyptic open world wasteland for something a bit smaller and the ability to have different planets to explore all the while, mixing in a bit