Today's post is my meager contribution to the 2020 edition of Love Your Backlog Week. Kim at Later Levels has done a great job in promoting a week of sharing your love of gaming and showing that having a backlog full of video games isn't something that one should be ashamed of. Far too often, … Continue reading Love Your Backlog Week – 2020
Due to the vast expanse of games to choose from in nearly any gaming console, there's unfortunately, always going to be games that get overlooked and/or neglected. I was recently thinking about the Wii and for what a successful console it was for Nintendo in terms of sales, and yet it seems it's large library … Continue reading Underappreciated Games – Nintendo Wii
This week's post comes following a relaxing weekend of just snacking and slacking...and video games. Being somewhat unsure what I was wanted to write about, what I've decided to do is highlight some Metroidvania games that I've been enjoying anywhere between the last few days or months....and NOT have Metroid or Castlevania in the title. … Continue reading Metroidvania Mania
The Game I purchased Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle back in 2017, as a discounted Black Friday pickup. I thoroughly enjoyed the Ubisoft's odd concoction of Mario characters, turn-based strategy and Rabbids, so I was intrigued to hear Ubisoft was releasing a DLC expansion featuring Donkey Kong. DK Adventure was released on June 26, 2018 … Continue reading Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle – DK Adventure
The Game Since the mid 90's, Nintendo hasn't always had the strongest support of third-party publishers and developers as the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube both suffered from vastly limited catalogs of titles to choose from in comparison to competitors like Sony and Microsoft. Things seemed to turn around a bit with the success of the … Continue reading Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
The Game Resident Evil 4 was the end result of a lengthy development process that began in 1999 and with the intention of being a direct sequel to Resident Evil 2, released the prior year for the Playstation. The development team at Capcom included Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya as well as series creator … Continue reading Resident Evil 4 – 15 Years Later
So last night...after 60 hours of gameplay I finished my playthrough of Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima's first game since parting ways with Konami back in 2015. The umm...discourse surrounding the game have been fairly mixed as the game itself is showing to be quite divisive, as Kojima games tend to be in general. I'll admit … Continue reading Gaming Thoughts – Death Stranding
My Friend Pedro was developed by Dead Toast Entertainment and published by Devolver Digital and was released on June 20 for the Nintendo Switch and PC. I played through the game on my Switch, being an indie title I was eager to play after it was announced. The tagline for the game is - Blood. … Continue reading My Friend Pedro
The long wait is over and Luigi's Mansion 3 has finally arrived! Fans of the oft-forgotten Mario brother(aren't we all?) will join in celebrating the release of Nintendo's premier ghost-busting title. I've been playing the game since it released a couple days ago and was excited to share some of my initial impressions of the … Continue reading Luigi’s Mansion 3 – First Impressions
One of my goals for a gaming blog site was to document my experiences with games I had never known as well as catching up on some older games that I've never gotten around to playing despite knowing full well of their existence. For my final Blogtober gaming entry I've chosen one Konami's Playstation masterworks … Continue reading Halloween Blogtober – Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
