My Reviews

A perfect way to cap off Shovel Knight Treasure Trove. I'm amazed at how Yacht Club Games managed to reimagine these levels so well across four separate campaigns, with four unique control schemes. King Knight, like Plague Knight, takes a while to get used to, but handles like a DREAM

Bugsnax was my GOTY for 2020. I firmly believe that it presented some of the best music, dialogue, characters, and overall vibe of any game I've played in the past few years. It's the gaming equivalent of a warm blanket, which arrived at the perfect time in Winter 2020. So

I know it's an uncommon opinion to call Skyward Sword my favorite Zelda game, but here we are. Rather than rehash the entire game, there are a few key things that really mean the most to me when it comes to this beautiful game. ~ ~ Home ~ ~ I love me

Pokémon Violet and Scarlet are the first great Pokémon games since Black 2 and White 2, and hooked me the way that no game had since Breath of the Wild. The best Pokémon games (as far as I'm concerned) are the ones that nail that sense of adventure I felt when

Pikmin 4 isn't just a great entry in the series, it's a series of glorious payoffs from its predecessors. Every kind of Pikmin is back. Caves are back. The bad ending from Pikmin 1 (?!?!?) is back, and there's an entire post-game mode that functions like DLC for that game.

“The flow of time is always cruel... Its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days...” If I could forget one game completely and experience it for the first time again, it would

Bumped this up to my #2 of all time after replaying. Reviewing it is incredibly daunting for some reason! We'll just say that the sheer scale and scope of its wacky creativity bring the purest joy to my jaded millennial heart, and that in a post-Yooka-Laylee world it's delightful to

I want a new one of these every year until the day I die. Chock-full of "Aha!" moments that other puzzlers could only dream of. Best played with a friend! The experience was elevated by talking things out together and discussing the characters like they're real people. Added to my

Me, mid-2021: "This combat is horrible and I hate it. I love the story and world, but am avoiding the dumb turn-based combat at all costs because I don't get it." Me, three years later: "So obviously you've gotta keep Ichiban as the Hero class because he gets the best abilities

Kunitsu-Gami immediately put me in a stranglehold. From the very first stage, I was hooked on this game in a way I haven't been in over a year, constantly eager to keep traversing my way down its mountain. You know that ProZD video about spending all day thinking about the

Absolute peak bonking. I do not believe I have ever experienced digital bonking this profound. "The Great Circle" is the massive lump I just left on some idiot's noggin Seriously though, what a game. I had zero expectations, only tried it because it was on Game Pass, and I completely fell