If the player can persevere with Sonic Frontiers’ mechanics, they might find themselves embracing its levels as expansive and entertaining playgrounds to be conquered as an effective blend of 2D and 3D Sonic high-speed shenanigans.
In their own unique ways, exercise-focused and motion control games should offer the most immersive of interactive experiences.
These are games ultimately about transposing your physical self into a digital world to test your limits.
The television show GamesMaster, broadcast on the UK’s Channel 4 between 1992 and 1998, would serve as an early attempt at looking at the wider cultural and economic significance of Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog. It would also experiment with whether it was also possible get real world clout from stunt playing two Virtua Cop 2 cabinets at the same time.
By merging the tight shooting and passing mechanics of five-aside football with hard hitting, big tackling American sports, as well as a smidgen of the casual violence and strategy of action videogames, even North American friends might just find something to embrace in Mario Strikers: Battle League.
Just about every videogame released over the last few decades has used music in some form or other – but how exactly can you make a videogame into a musical in a way that effectively combines sound, actions and emotion?
In asking a player to be both a counterweight as well as literal and figurative support for their real world partner, the co-op robot exploration game Biped can be a thrilling, if frustrating experience for duos and couples to play through.
The WarioWare series has made its way to the Nintendo Switch 18 years after first launching as a unique handheld title made up of an escalating series of increasingly intense ‘microgames’ that each take a couple of seconds to play through. The latest title however seeks to revolutionise the series by letting the player choose a squad of different characters that have unique ways of failing or succeeding in each challenge.
Watchdogs Legion is based around the battle for the soul of near future London. But too often its politics are decided in binary ways that prove unsatisfying when compared to the more open ended, well designed methods of waging guerrilla warfare in the capital
What is a fair price to play for a couple of hours of mindless or not-so-mindless video game escapism? For the price of less than a pound during one recent sale, Skull Rogue potentially offers hours of escalating dungeon battles and literal bang for a literal buck.
Should a videogame sequel be bigger, shinier and more of the same, or a bold new approach to gameplay and mechanics? The question seems pertinent with the release of the latest Monster Hunter game on Nintendo Switch.
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