The atmosphere is heavy with nostalgia and melancholy. The backdrop of Yarny & Co’s adventure centers on two young boys alternately having fun and fending off… mysterious villains of some…
Continue ReadingLook at these 1-bit graphics. LOOK AT THEM! Somehow they still manage to be expressive and readable. Reminds me a bit of Luftrausers, especially when the game starts rewarding you…
Continue ReadingPretty adorable little text micro-adventure. Initially I jumped straight in without reading anything about the game, so I mistakenly hunted for a hippo somewhere in the story. It wasn’t until…
Continue ReadingSuper-cool little biology and ecosystem simulator. It plays like Stardew Valley, but acts like Sim Life (remember back in the days when Maxis made stuff besides The Sims?). There are…
Continue ReadingAfter being heralded as a refreshing evolution of the formula, I was rather surprised by just how much this game adheres to classic JRPG structure and artifice. It’s a very…
Continue Reading…seriously? It’s Link’s Awakening again. I’m beginning to think the universe is conspiring to hand me only one kind of game for the rest of time. I promise, I will…
Continue ReadingHuh… waking up on a foreign beach? No idea where I am or what’s going on? Only a sword and three hearts to take with me into the dungeon? This…
Continue ReadingJust after my wife picked up the Link’s Awakening remake for Switch a month or so ago, I decided it would be fun if I (as the more beep-boop tolerant…
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