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I suppose it was only a matter of time before the Nintendo DS Castlevania games would be joined in an excellent M2 Collection published by Limited Run …

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Once upon a time, about 23 years ago, Konami released three delightful Metroidvania-style Igavania/beyond-Classicvania Castlevanias—what’s …

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Two years after the latest Game Boy installment, Back from the Sewers, Konami gave the TMNT franchise yet another try—third time’s a …

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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 …

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

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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 …

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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 …

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“Guacaaameleeeeee! Super Turbo Championship Editiooonnn!” yells the narrator as I boot up the (enhanced edition of the) game. Woah. Even …

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You enter the Castle Corridor with a knife, handed to you by Aluca—erm, right, Genya Arikado—who ushers you in, to “go to the throne …

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After finishing Hollow Knight, I rather fancied playing another metroidvania—one I actually, to my big shame, never really touched: the …