Waiting for Hollow Knight: Silksong? Make the wait easier by reading and playing our picks for the best Metroidvania games ever made.
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As the game industry crowns its Games of the Year, I decided to set my sights further back. Here are my 10 best backlog games of 2022.
In advance of the 3DS and Wii U eShop closures, I bought and played several legacy titles to see how well (or poorly) they hold up in 2022.
Nintendo’s decision to shutter the 3DS and Wii U eShops is disappointing, but there’s a small silver lining to the upcoming closures.
While it can be tempting to want to play the newest video game releases, sometimes you can get just as much value by embracing the past.
Read why Metroid Dread isn’t just a worthy sequel to the 2D Metroid saga, but an inventive and refreshing title that’s one of 2021’s best.
As the world starts to rebound from a challenging year and change, here are ten backlog games that helped me get through quarantine.
Last year, I decried the overuse of gaming terms like “metroidvania,” as often such words and phrases do little to actually describe the experience any game presents. While I understand why someone might lean on a certain vernacular when describing various works, the time has come for us to rethink how we talk about games in order to describe them in a more accurate manner. I’m not calling for the obliteration of such terms, either; I just believe we should know what we’re saying when utilizing these words.
Here are five particularly notable examples.
Size Doesn’t Mean Everything The reason that Super Smash Bros. works is because Nintendo has a vast catalog of intellectual properties to pull from. As I stated when I started this challenge, I haven’t played…
Welcome to Punished Notes, a series of articles outlining many of my random thoughts on games I’ve been playing, reading about, or even watching on YouTube or Twitch. This week, I examine the Zelda-like qualities of Okami,…