Classic Basic Games

If there’s one thing Yoshitaka Murayama knows better than most people in the world, it’s how to bring Japanese…

2002’s Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and 2003’s Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy are coming to the…

When I think back to my childhood and teenage years, when my literary tastes were being forged in the crucible of…

Let’s talk about one of my least favorite words in the video game lexicon: metroidvania. A portmanteau combining the…

Samurai Shodown, which arrives for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One tomorrow, is the series’ first original outing in…

A mix of The Legend of Zelda and the works of Hayao Miyazaki, Crystalis was an incredible action RPG for the NES…

Cadence of Hyrule feels like a french fry dunked into a milkshake. There’s two distinct flavors at play—the deep…

One of the first Switch games I bought, way back in the spring of 2017, was the Japanese version of Collection of Mana

It was about two months ago when, reading the latest updates on the Sega Genesis Mini, I thought to myself:…

Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest is pretty to look at, interesting to solve, and absolutely ruthless…