image: pig For the past few days I’ve been consumed by a game by the name Vampire Survivor. It’s cheap, both in terms of price (just $3) and presentation (huge keys that are more suited to mobile than PC), while quite obviously taking most of its aesthetic inspiration from who takes off Castlevania Series. But ...
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Take the farming and house decorating of Stardew Valley, the dungeon crawling of Minish Cap, and combine it with RPG deckbuilding combat in a beautifully-rendered top-down pixel world, and you have Moonstone Island — a game that’s very quickly shot up on our “ones to watch” list. You are ...
Flooded by gravity-defying rain bubbles and isolated from the rest of the world, Tokyo is becoming a playground for lost children battling in team-based parkour competitions. It sounds like a game. Instead, it’s a new original anime film called bladder, written by Puella Magi Madoka Magica Clerk Gen Urobuchi and directed by attack on Titan‘s ...
Yoshi’s Crafted World was a pleasant little platformer, and we’ve got what you might call ‘a thing’ for the textile-filled worlds that developer Good Feel created in its predecessors Yoshi’s Woolly World and the sublime Kirby’s Epic Yarn. Therefore, the trailer for 2.5D platformer Ayo the Clown caught our eye recently as it looks to ...
Since the reveal of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, it’s drawn comparisons to cult hit N64 title, Majora’s Mask. This entry, dating back to the year 2000, was pretty much unlike anything else before it – with much darker and scarier themes, and creepy music. It was sort of doom and ...
© Funbox Media Ltd Everyone has their own definition of retro, though we suspect a number of gamers only go as far as the NES-era when they think of old-school classics. Gamers of a certain age remember pre-Nintendo console days, however, when arcade machines made comforting beeps and bloops and made good use of vector-based ...
Extremely OK Games It’s been three years since Celeste, the pixel-perfect platformer, first came out. Since then, the people who made it have banded together to create a whole new studio — Extremely OK Games — and have been hard at work on what comes next. Today, that question finally has an answer: Earthblade, a ...
