Springfield. City on the move. Or is it? This once-bustling burb has been brought to a stand-still by the malignant magnate C. Montgomery Burns. The man who owns the nuclear power plant has bought out the Springfield Transit Corporation and is sapping the billfold of every Johnny Commuter and Janie Buspass in this fair town. … Continue reading The Simpsons: Road Rage
There's a moment roughtly 3/4 of the way through the main campaign in Doom Eternal in which the Doom Slayer arrives on the UAC base on Phobos, one of Mars' many moons. A massive battle between remaining UAC forces and Hell's army raging, the Slayer obliterates the demonic welcoming party before proceeding to the next … Continue reading Doom Eternal
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the release of God of War for the Playstation 2 on March 22, 2005. I was 19 when God of War was first released and since first playing has gone on to become not just a favorite PS2 game, but on the list of my all-time favorites. I can … Continue reading God of War – 15th Anniversary
A couple months ago while browsing the Switch eShop, I decided to finally download Ori and the Blind Forest and try it out after hearing others say how much they love the game. I knew of the game, but not so much what type of game it was - a metroidvania-type adventure game with some … Continue reading First Impressions – Ori and the Will of the Wisps
It was on this day - March 11, 1995 that Squaresoft first released Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo. A game that proved enormously successful with both critics and fans alike, with the game still being held up as among not only the greatest SNES titles or 16-bit RPGs, but one of the greatest games … Continue reading Chrono Trigger 25th Anniversary – #MaybeInMarch
Yoshi’s New Island was released in 2013 for the Nintendo 3DS as a follow-up to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island for the Super Nintendo and Yoshi’s Island DS, though the story this time around is a prequel to the DS version. Our story begins with the stork delivering Baby Mario and Luigi to their … Continue reading Super Mario Multiverse – Yoshi’s New Island
For this week's post I decided it would be fun to take a quick scroll through the Switch eShop download a random game and write a little about it. I have done this several times before with games like the retro-inspired beat em up Coffee Crisis or the survival horror throwback Back in 1995 which … Continue reading 5 Cent Reviews – Preventive Strike
For the month of March I have set out to complete some of the games that have been sitting in my backlog for quite some time. I still have a few Sega Genesis games that I've owned since childhood that I never finished(Dynamite Headdy, X-Men). To kick off my #MaybeInMarch goal, I recently finished Final … Continue reading #MaybeInMarch – Final Fantasy VII
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
