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REVIEW: Famicon Detective Club The Missing Heir + The Girl Who Stands Behind (Switch)
The years are 1988 and 1989. Nintendo releases a pair of visual novels back to back for the Super Famicon (or as we know it in the west, Super Nintendo Entertainment System) named Famicon Detective Club: The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind. For The Girl Who Stands Behind, the player is meant to solve a murder mystery at a school that is said to be haunted by the ghost of a missing student. In The Missing Heir, the player is meant to solve a murder mystery while finding out the reason for his amnesia Players that enjoy visual novels will feel right at home with its point-and-click…
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REVIEW: New Pokemon Snap (Switch)
Pokemon is not a stranger when it comes to video game spinoffs. One of the many spinoffs that have been released over the years is a simple one, filled with charm, named Pokemon Snap on the Nintendo 64: an on-rail shooter with the objective of taking the photos of Pokemon. Although some monsters were open to some prime photography, others you had to lure out with bait and other tactics. Now, over 20 years later, The Pokemon Company, with the help of Bandai Namco, has released a long-awaited sequel named New Pokemon Snap for The Nintendo Switch. Instead of Professor Oak, the player helps the newly introduced Professor Mirror who…
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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘MORTAL KOMBAT’
A Head Smashing Good Time Mortal Kombat marks the return of the legendary video game franchise to the big screen for the first time in 24 years. Considering its wild success on consoles, the gap is hard to fathom. Certainly Annihilation sort of poisoned the well, but the 1995 original remains popular, as does its techno theme song. The one thing most would agree on, though, is that 95’s lack of an R-rating kept it from truly being a Mortal Kombat film. That is no longer an issue. 2021’s film boats buckets of blood, and gruesome fatalities that are as true to the game as is probably acceptable for theaters. This is the adaptation die…
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REVIEW: Persona 5 Strikers (Switch)
As summer break arrives, Joker returns to Tokyo and reunites with friends from his Phantom Thieves days. But when a new threat emerges and puts their vacation plans on hold, The Phantom Thieves of Heart re-enter the stage to save the day and clear their name in the process. When Persona 5 was released, it became a massive success within the RPG genre. And it became even bigger once its main protagonist Joker got announced for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate as the first official DLC character (not counting the Piranha Plant pre-order bonus). Now, two years later, the western market is getting its hold of what is officially a sequel…
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5 Game Ports That Nintendo Should Do Next
We all have games of old that we’d like to to play again on a newer console. It’s a big reason why backward compatibility is a selling point for consoles, after all. So with Super Mario 3D World’s re-release, I figured why not write about the games Nintendo should port next? Let’s take a look, shall we? Star Fox Zero (Wii U) Star Fox Zero is unique on this list because I have not been given a chance to play it. I would like to see this game ported because I wish to see more Star Fox, and I find it likelier to get a port then an entirely new…
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REVIEW: Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
Considering the lackluster sales of the Wii U, it is not surprising that Nintendo thought it was necessary to port the “bigger” titles from that console generation to the Nintendo Switch. Just look at the current best-seller for Switch, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and you can see that this legendary company knows what it is doing with its IP. Which made it just a matter of time before Super Mario 3D World joined the fray of games being ported to the Switch. Unlike previous ports, however, this one arrives with an expansion called Bowser’s Fury (something I will go over later in this review). The general basis of Super Mario…
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4 Crossovers That Nintendo Needs to Do
Crossovers are nothing new for Nintendo. Just look at one of the most successful franchises of all time, Super Smash Brothers. While they have done other crossovers, such as Fire Emblem crossing over with Dynasty Warriors or Pokémon crossing over with Tekken; there is still plenty of potential for crossovers for Nintendo to consider. Here are list of suggestions: Soul Calibur x Fire Emblem With the success of Pokken (Tekken, but with Pokémon characters), you would think the next obvious step would be for Bandai Namco and Nintendo to make a crossover with their fantasy-themed 3D fighting game, Soul Calibur. With the fighting styles Soul Calibur is known for, Fire…
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SPOILER FREE REVIEW: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
Link, Zelda, and the four champions of Hyrule face the entity of darkness known as Calamity Ganon in an epic war set a mere one-hundred years prior to the events of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. When this entry was first announced, it caused a bit of an explosion all over the internet. Nintendo, out of nowhere, dropped an announcement trailer for a prequel to one of their best-selling games of all time. Flash forward a few months later, and that game has since been released. But there is a catch to this new entry: it wasn’t a traditional Legend of…
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REVIEW: POKEMON: SWORD & SHIELD – CROWN TUNDRA DLC
Many moons ago, yours truly reviewed the first part of Pokémon: Sword & Shield’s expansion pack the Isle of Armor. And being the completionist that I am, a review of Crown Tundra, the second and supposedly last installment of the 8th generation of Pokémon games DLC, was a must. Now, the first point that I would like to make that deserves our utmost attention is that there are no rival trainers within the confines of the Tundra. This expansion focuses primarily on exploring the environment and the secrets that it holds, which benefits the release greatly. Also, the experience is significantly better when your main companion, Peony, is a more…
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Review: Pikmin 3 Deluxe
To describe the Pikmin franchise as a genre, it would be fair to classify it as a puzzle/survivor/horror franchise. The player is required to find a way to defeat specific enemies, using specific Pikmin, while also facing specific roadblocks and puzzles that need to be solved in order to advance the protagonist’s journey. In the first game, it was all about the missing parts of his rocket ship. The second entry, it was locating all kinds of treasures. Now. in Pikmin 3, it boils down to finding food. Pikmin 3 Deluxe doubles-down on its puzzle-solving mechanics, having the player switching between three different captains in order to solve some of…
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