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XBLA Video Game Reviews

Bulb Boy review – Tripping the light fantastic
8 years ago

Bulb Boy review – Tripping the light fantastic

Bulb Boy is a sort of point and click adventure game. I say sort of, because it’s a little more unusual than your standard pointing and clicking affair. Firstly, the …
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Your Toy Review: too much playing around
8 years ago

Your Toy Review: too much playing around

Games that ask the player to escape the room have been around since I born back in 1988. Back in those days, the game was normally a text adventure. The …
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Ruiner review: everything is red in the future
8 years ago

Ruiner review: everything is red in the future

Just when you thought cyberpunk couldn’t be more awesome, in comes Ruiner, a top-down shooter absolutely smothered in the aesthetic. It’s like the developer was tasked with creating a game …
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Nightmare Boy Review: A dream come true
8 years ago

Nightmare Boy Review: A dream come true

This past year has seen the release of many different Metroidvania titles; all with unique features and concepts that add to the original formula. The Vanir Project’s Nightmare Boy is no …
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AER: Memories of Old Review: Short but sweet!
8 years ago

AER: Memories of Old Review: Short but sweet!

The saying goes you aren’t free till you are “Free as a bird.” In Forgotten Key’s AER: Memories of Old, players are introduced to a lot more than just that. …
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Rogue Trooper Redux review: Blue Man Army
8 years ago

Rogue Trooper Redux review: Blue Man Army

Usually, when you think of the types of games that get re-releases, they’re games that are pretty well-known even among people who never played them. That’s why Rogue Trooper Redux
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Mages of Mystralia review: Good for a spell
8 years ago

Mages of Mystralia review: Good for a spell

Mages of Mystralia is an RPG centered on the protagonist Zia, a flame-haired young mage, who having only just discovered her powers, almost destroys her home town. Zia is then exiled and …
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Mystik Belle review: Not quite a symphony of the night
8 years ago

Mystik Belle review: Not quite a symphony of the night

Mystic Belle is an action adventure game that takes place in Hagmore School of Witchcraft. You play as Belle MacFae, a student wrongly accused of messing up the Walpurgisnacht Brew. …
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The Mummy: Demastered review: Embalmed
8 years ago

The Mummy: Demastered review: Embalmed

I don’t think anyone was expecting, nor asking for, a game based on Universal Pictures’ ultimately-panned summer blockbuster, The Mummy. Here we are months later with The Mummy Demastered, a …
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N++ review: increment by one
8 years ago

N++ review: increment by one

Anyone else remember N+? It takes a weird spot in XBLA history, having come out before the heavy hitters like Braid and Castle Crashers really put the digital marketplace in …
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