With a swift punch and a loud “BARF!”, River City Ransom made its mark in the gaming world over 30 years ago. Known overseas as the Kunio-kun series, the tale of one strong high schooler looking to save his girlfriend

Yearning for the return of something you enjoyed in the past can be a mixed road that leads to either joy or disappointment. Platonic Games set about revitalizing the void left by the folks over at Rare by making a

Ambition, particularly in game development, has a habit of of either making or breaking certain titles. Greedfall, a game by the developer Spiders, is a highly ambitious game that sought to create a sweeping story through a massive world of

In anime and in visual novels, there are sometimes stories about schools with curses and mysteries. Some involve ghosts, others hexes from deceased students. In Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa, the first original visual novel from PQUBE Games, these

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio knows how to deliver an amazing story with fun, often wacky fighting mechanics. For nearly 15 years, their Yakuza franchise has given us memorable characters, heartbreaking tales, and some of the most incredibly bonkers fights anyone

WayForward knows how to deliver a good time, even with the most simplest of mechanics. This is very evident in their Mighty Switch Force! series, which had delivered loads of challenges with a mere simple twist. For those who’ve been

Note to the triple-A gaming industry: when someone says the community is craving a certain kind of game, you best listen to them instead of plugging your ears. That’s what happened with Koji Igarashi, who breathed new life to Castlevania

Bringing fantasy worlds to life is an incredibly tall order in and of itself, but with a series as storied as the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. Providing a fantasy story through the eyes of anthropomorphic animals, particularly mice and

Video games based on the universe created by H.P. Lovecraft have come and gone over the years, with surprisingly few of them hitting the mark. Surprisingly, most of the successes, like Eternal Darkness, were not direct interpretations, but more loosely

On paper, a game like Our World is Ended sounds like it’d be a blast to experience. Take a team of game developers, and have them go face-off against creatures that roamed their past titles. However, even the brightest of