Review – Mario Kart DS (NDS)
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Review – Mario Kart DS (NDS)

Mario Kart DSNintendo DS – Nintendo1 to 8 players (4 max on WiFi) You’d think it would be easier to review games that you like than to review games you don’t like. Trust me, it’s not. When you review a game you don’t like, you point out all its glaring flaws. You poke a few jokes at its expense, you tell everyone to avoid it, simple. The process for reviewing a good game is similar except you have to be careful to not come off like some sort of deluded fan boy. Also you have to accept that you’re likely…
Review – New Super Mario Brothers (NDS)
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Review – New Super Mario Brothers (NDS)

Nintendo DS – 1 to 2 Players IntroWhat do you get when you combine an 8-bit mindset with modern technology? You get New Super Mario Brothers of course! Just about the only thing missing is the inability to move left.I’m not real sure what the idea behind the “New” in the title is though. There isn’t all that much new to this title. It’s not a remake of the NES’ Super Mario Brothers either. They could have just as easily called it say, Adventures of the Super Mario Brothers and it would have been just as relevant. It’s likely the…
Review – Super Princess Peach (NDS)
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Review – Super Princess Peach (NDS)

Nintendo – 1 Player Princess Peach aka Princess Toadstool, makes the occasional player controlled appearance in games many Mario games. You can cruise around as her in Mario Kart, you can get her in your party during Mario RPG, you can even control her directly in Mario Brothers 2. Still, she’s always pretty much second fiddle to Mario. Actually it’s more like 4th or 5th fiddle to Mario, there is a whole slew of cast members that take more spotlight than Princess Peach. Not anymore! As the title suggests, Super Princess Peach stars, Mario! Er, Peach! This time Mario gets…
Review – Limbo (PC)
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Review – Limbo (PC)

I’ve been a bit lax on posts the last few days, with good reason.  I’ve been plowing through Limbo in order to do a proper review of it.  Here’s the short, this game is phenomenal.  It’s so simple in it’s design and gameplay and just all around but I have not been so engaged by a game the way Limbo did for a while.  I’ve been devoting my free time to playing through it instead of doing productive things like blogging. So the plot presented here is very simple, you must travel through the surreal land of Limbo to find…
Review – Beat Hazard (PC)
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Review – Beat Hazard (PC)

Somewhere along the way, the “Sh’Mup" or “Shoot Em Up” genre evolved and became the “Bullet Hell” Genre.  Play styles and enemy patterns from games like R-Type, or Gradius remail but there is a lot more going on in the playing field than older systems could handle.  Hell there’s probably more going on in a single screen of a modern Shoot Em up game than happened in an entire round of Gradius.  Since the screen is covered in action and well, bullets, the term Bullet Hell is used. If you want to go way back, Asteroid is essentially the grand…