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Metroidvania

Sheepo Review: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
3 years ago

Sheepo Review: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Crashland on an unfamiliar planet, where you control Sheepo, an odd-looking character that looks a lot like a rat without arms. It’s a Metroidvania platformer where you can collect eggs …
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Shantae and the Seven Sirens Review: Wish Granted
4 years ago

Shantae and the Seven Sirens Review: Wish Granted

Shantae is a tested and proven great platformer series featuring a half-genie character that has powers to transform into different animals. Shantae and the Seven Sirens is a Metroidvania-style game …
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Bloodstained Ritual of the Night Review: Demonically Perfect
5 years ago

Bloodstained Ritual of the Night Review: Demonically Perfect

Long story short, demons from Hell in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night have been summoned and it’s up to a girl named Miriam to destroy the force behind the evil. …
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Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom Review: Zootopia Re-Ducks
6 years ago

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom Review: Zootopia Re-Ducks

Common sense moment – it’s generally regarded as bad form to consume alcohol prior to doing anything that requires good cognitive skills. Driving obviously comes to mind. Making important decisions, …
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Mystik Belle review: Not quite a symphony of the night
7 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
7 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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Seasons After Fall review: Foxing with nature
7 years ago

Seasons After Fall review: Foxing with nature

Living in Scotland, I know only too well the daily adventure called changeable weather. Now gamers throughout the world can also experience four seasons in one day thanks to Swing …
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Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap review: Extreme Makeover
8 years ago

Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap review: Extreme Makeover

In this era of the remaster, many games we see really aren’t that old, so it’s good to see that Lizardcube and DotEmu have gone a bit further back in …
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Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found review: Old skool playtime
8 years ago

Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found review: Old skool playtime

Like a veritable toy box, Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found is a roguelike, Metroidvania style, action-platformer with some tower defense and RPG elements thrown in for good measure. We …
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Teslagrad review: Shock treatment
9 years ago

Teslagrad review: Shock treatment

Cutting right to the chase, Teslagrad is a beautiful, intriguing, challenging and often incredibly frustrating game blending Metroidvania-style progression with fairly complex 2D puzzle-platforming. It’s a mix that should and …
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