Friday, October 16, 2015
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
[REVIEW] Super Mario Maker
Super Mario Maker
That Friday, I went to work knowing it was gonna be tough to get through the day. Whatever day job tasks I had in front of me, I could only focus on one thing: the Mega Man-themed level I was going to make when I got out of work, bought my shiny new copy of Super Mario Maker, and scurried home. That's the kind of thing Super Mario Maker does to you: the very idea of such a game-slash-development-tool, a first in the Mario franchise, and quite likely the defining Wii U gamepad-centric title, is enough to inspire obsession.
Monday, September 14, 2015
[REVIEW] Cities: Skylines
Back in 1996, a cousin introduced me to the first SimCity, and it just blew my mind. I
was accustomed to games being fairly linear affairs, giving the player a
lot of tightly orchestrated fun but very little control. In time I
moved my strategy PC gaming from city simulation to stuff like
Civilization and Heroes of Might and Magic, in no small part because,
after SimCity 2000, most games in the genre failed to really entice me
in a big way. Cities Skylines, however, managed to rekindle the
proverbial spark, especially because developer Colossal Order seems
hellbent on undoing all the damage done by EA's immensely disappointing
SimCity reboot a few years back.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
[REVIEW] Mercenaries Saga 2: Order of the Silver Eagle
3DS-owning fans of strategy RPGs have a cool new way to scratch that waiting-for-Fire-Emblem-Fates itch: Mercenaries Saga 2, a well-designed little package that's as addictive as one would hope for an entry in the genre. Better yet, it's a title that's as large in gameplay time as it is cheap to get.
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