One of the friends I watched Detective Pikachu with cried when Bulbasaur first appeared on screen. I don’t just bring this up because it was funny – although it was, especially because we all knew she was going to and…
Team Sonic Racing Review – Car Allies
For all his talk about speed, and gameplay focused on speed, and generally being the anthropomorphic personification of going quite quickly, Sonic hasn’t had the best of luck when it comes to racing games. Sonic R seems to have gone…
Pokémon Sword and Shield Nintendo Direct – Legends, Giants and Sheep
Nintendo, as they often do, held one of their little focused directs this week – last time we learned about Mario’s side business constructing deaths labyrinths and, much less occasionally, good levels, and today they showed off 15 minutes of…
Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon EVERYBUDDY! – Best Friends Forfeather
Chocobo has something of an identity problem – and I don’t just mean that they’re yellow and make annoying noises, and therefore draw comparisons to those infernal, Mum-meme monstrosities known as Minions. No, it’s more a problem I like to…
Just What are Nintendo’s Second-Party Developers up to?
It can often seem like Nintendo’s company layout is just one huge, amorphous mass a bit like looking at an overview of UK’s betting apps – and that’s probably because it is. The people behind even a first-party “Nintendo” game…
Piczle Colors Review – Dye Another Day
Things initially weren’t looking good for Piczle Colors, to be quite frank. It joins Paper Mario: Color Splash atop the podium for “games that made my spell-checker have a fit by not putting a “u” in “color” for the English-language…
How Spyro Reignited Trilogy Builds a World
(Note: I’ve chosen this format to talk about Spyro: Reignited Trilogy instead of a review because a review would just be me gushing for several consecutive hours. At least something productive might come of this.) Spyro’s world-building is among the…