If you’re thinking of getting into The Legend of Zelda, then the Nintendo Switch 2 is a great place to start. Thanks to both its flexible form factor and accessibility, you have a lot of options on what games you want to play and how you want to play them. However, Zelda is a large […]
Ys IV is perhaps the most complicated game in the Ys series to talk about and one of the strangest releases in Nihon Falcom’s overall history. Released at the tail end of 1993, Ys IV was a return to the gameplay set up in Ys I and II, using a top-down perspective and simple “bump” […]
The Mega Man Star Force subseries came at a time where the public’s perception of Mega Man had long since been flagging due to the sheer saturation of games. As such, Star Force didn’t get to thrive as much as its predecessor subseries Battle Network, receiving only half of the games that it did before […]
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin became a surprise favorite of mine in the year it was released. It combined a lot of the mainstays of the mainline Monster Hunter games with the fun of a turn-based system while also cleaning up the faults of its predecessor in terms of tone and game balance. […]
Pokémon is currently undergoing a lot of change. The ninth generation of the series has brought the series into an open world format with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, while Legends: Z-A brought the series into full real-time gameplay. While we’ve got more than a year to wait until the next game in the series further evolves things, […]
Released back in 2023 (or 2024 for those in the west), Ys X: Nordics was the tenth numbered game in Nihon Falcom’s golden oldie Action RPG series. Having played it for myself back then, I really liked the game and it became a personal favorite despite some quirks that needed ironing out. Not long after […]
The remake train of Dragon Quest just doesn’t seem to be slowing down. While we still wait for the next new numbered installment of the series, remakes of the Erdrick trilogy have been keeping us occupied for the past few years. Now, we’re skipping ahead a whopping four games for our next remake, the rather […]
One of the biggest surprises in the June 2025 Nintendo Direct was the announcement of a sequel to the GameCube game Kirby Air Ride. While Kirby has already made his Switch 2 debut, a sequel to a niche GameCube racer, directed by series creator Masahiro Sakurai no less, still turned a lot of heads. While […]
HD-2D RPG is a style that needs little introduction at this point. Starting out in 2018 with the first Octopath Traveler game, it enjoyed much success and acclaim over being a style that combined old game formats with modern visual techniques and qualities of life. Since that original game, we’ve seen the HD-2D style in […]
I’ve become something of a lover of Square Enix’s HD-2D branch of games in recent times. Between the great demo for The Adventures of Elliot: The Millenium Tales and the superlative remakes of the first three Dragon Quest games, I’m wholeheartedly onboard with its merits in presenting classic game formats with modern techniques. It’s perhaps […]