Amazing | Nintendo’s big-butted antihero character Wario was one of the greatest things ever to grace on the Game Boy handhelds, as discussed in the Wario …

Good | I’m a proud owner of Limited Run Games' Castlevania Anniversary Collection Switch cartridge, but it’s been sitting on the shelf for almost …

Great | It’s hard to believe that a game such as Super Castlevania IV—stuffed with amazing moments, superb Mode-7 graphical effects, and thrilling …

Mediocre | Vampire hunting isn’t a profession that’s limited to the Belmont family: Buffy has been blessed—or cursed—with being the …

Great | It’s been too long since I’ve taken another stab at one of my many love/hate relationships; this time arguably the last good installment …

Good | After the giant failure of Castlevania: The Adventure, Konami still had the guts to continue its handheld Castlevania line in 1991, by going back to …

Bad | In 1989, The Nintendo’s handheld Game Boy made its debut in Japan, suddenly creating a demand for bite-sized adventures that could work on the …

Amazing | What if you take an obscure 1995 SNES strategy RPG, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together originally developed by Quest, and remaster it for the PSP?

Mediocre | For December’s Dos Game Club playthrough, we played Albion, a 1995 CD-ROM RPG from German studio Blue Byte you might know better from the superb …

Great | I (sometimes fondly) remember the endless bickering between me and my sisters when growing up—before puberty kicked in, when everything was …

Good | When I think about Amanita Design, I think about Machinarium and the beautiful hand-drawn art with a dark twist. As soon as you lay eyes on the …

Mediocre | If you’ve ever wanted to play as a dung beetle postman on a small tropical island, bouncing your dung ball up and down while traveling from …

Great | Once upon a time, the wealthy who could afford it raised burial mounds called barrows all over the English countryside, waiting to be …

Good | Here’s another feel-good game from the grandmasters of fuzzy warm feeling generation: Good-Feel. Even the company name perfectly reflects what …

Mediocre | Void Bastards is as weird as the title suggests—but in a delightuf way. In it, you board spaceships, shoot stuff, watch “foomp”, …

Good | Thomas Happ’s 2015 Axiom Verge thoroughly impressed me: it is a superb and faithful Metroid game that is not Metroid itself; coded, designed, …

Great | Nineteen years later, Metroid Fusion for the Game Boy Advance finally got a much-deserved sequel! I’m ignoring Other M and Samus Returns right …

Great | In March 2010, after witnessing the success of early indie video games like 2008’s Braid, Tom Happ started building a virtual world as a side …

Good | Although I’m not against the concept, I’ve never been keen on buying virtual party games. It’s always more involving to get together …

Good | As always, one day, on the lookout for worthwhile adventure games, Michael Klamerus over at Mastodon suggested to try out The Darkside Detective.