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Yoku's Island Express: a Pinball Metroidvania
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 …

Axiom Verge 2: Plenty of Nanites To Spice Things Up
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, …

Metroid Dread: The Sequel Fusion Deserves?
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 …

Axiom Verge: A One-Man Love Letter To NES Metroid
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 …

Guacamelee: a Light and Colorful Four-Player Metroidvania
Good | “Guacaaameleeeeee! Super Turbo Championship Editiooonnn!” yells the narrator as I boot up the (enhanced edition of the) game. Woah. Even …

Castlevania Advance Collection: Are GBA Vanias Still Worth It in 2021?
Great | 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 …

Super Metroid: the Granddaddy of Metroidvania's
Amazing | After finishing Hollow Knight, I rather fancied playing another metroidvania—one I actually, to my big shame, never really touched: the …

Hollow Knight: Metroidvania marries Demon Souls
Amazing | I hope they get divorced. That’s my review, condensed into a single sentence. As much as I loved my deep dive into the world of Hallownest, as …

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Switch Review
Mediocre | One year later, Ritual of the Night is still unplayable on the Nintendo Switch. Numerous patches later, the game still stutters and crashes, with its …

Castlevania Circle of the Moon: a retrospective
Great | As the hunt continues, from Aria of Sorrow to the beginning of Castlevania’s appearance on the GBA, Circle of the Moon, I have the uneasy …

Castlevania Aria of Sorrow: a retrospective
Amazing | Calling Aria of Sorrow the best handheld Castlevania is quite a bold statement: they’re all great in their own way. But after replaying this …

Wario Land: a Retrospective
It’s been over 20 years since I last touched any of the Wario Land games. I vaguely remember them being one of the most exciting platformers …

Castlevania Portrait of Ruin Review
Great | Castlevania games tend to pop up each year on Nintendo’s Handheld platform. The last entries: Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow, followed the …