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2021: Best Games of the Year

2021 may not have been a great year overall, but it was a great year for video games. There were definitely ups and downs, with some severe disappointments, and great […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • January 12, 2022
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Review: Death’s Gambit: Afterlife Is a Whole New Experience

    I never played Death’s Gambit on its original release. There are so any soulslike and metroidvania games that Death’s Gambit flew under my radar—sort of. I mean, it was already […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • September 30, 2021
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Review: A Great Metroidvania, Axiom Verge 2 Subverts Conventions

    I came to Axiom Verge late, only playing the first game in series just a year or so ago. I knew it was considered one of the best retro-inspired modern […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • September 9, 2021
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Review: Recompile Is a Stylish Cyberspace Metroidvania with a Few Glitches

    Growing up watching cartoons in the 90s, there were lots of shows about “cyberspace” with ancient computer graphics and cheesy storylines about computer programs fighting viruses inside of what the […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • August 19, 2021
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Review: Unbound: Worlds Apart Is a Puzzle Platformer with a Side of Metroidvania

    I’ve played a lot of platformers and puzzle platformers over the years—and while I definitely got sick of platformers when I was younger, I’ve been finding myself craving a good […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • August 6, 2021
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Review: Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition Brings New Levels and Quality of Life Changes to the Gravity Defying Metroidvania

    I first heard of Dandara when a writer pitched the review to me in 2018.When he submitted it, all I knew going in was that it was a metroidvania. After […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • March 11, 2020
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Review: A Robot Named Fight is a Grotesque “Metroguelite” Anyone Can Love

    A Robot Named Fight is developer Matt Bitner’s carefully crafted homage to the games he loved as a kid. Even if you didn’t play games like Super Metroid, Contra, Mega […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • April 26, 2018
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