With gamers all over the world now finally able to play 1995’s Trials of Mana via the Nintendo Switch console – how exactly does the sequel live up to decades of anticipation and longing?
As our increasingly online society finds itself descending into a dog-eat-dog battle for attention and clicks, one particular minigame in Super Mario Party on the Nintendo Switch probably captures this moment in humanity better than any full-priced videogame.
It’s not quite a scrolling Beat em up brawler such as Streets of Rage or the intense, rhythm/dance combat VR game Beat Saber, but in skirting a range of different genres, Way of the Passive Fist is an interesting new take on some tried and tested gaming mechanics. In short, DON’T GET HIT…
Just what lessons did the developers of ScourgeBringer take from an almost 20 year old PS2 hack and slash adventure game in terms of making a player feel actually like a ‘bad ass’ while playing, as opposed to just playing as one?
With the introduction of a piggyback mechanic in 2019’s Yoshi’s Crafted World – Nintendo appears to have found one elegant solution to overcoming more challenging and precision-based platforming when playing in unison.
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.
There can be real joy in plugging in some beloved old controller or joystick into a modern platformer. But trying to give a modern game with its multiple input and control options a retro, tactile feel is not always easy when you have just six buttons to do so.
For better or worse, we all have to do the best we can in life to get by with what we’re given. Both Dead Cells and Slay the Spire perfectly encapsulate this school of thought with very different styles of gameplay.
All hail Golf’s Story’s Coach, a unique videogame study of hubris, doomed ambition and the power of perseverance, pomposity and being a semi-reliable friend
If conscience does make cowards of us all; two different 2D shooters take a very different approach to conveying violence with very different consequences for living out our inner action hero.
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