Free Play – Spyborgs
Free Play is back! Honestly I've been recording these videos for months now but haven't gotten around to finally finishing one until now. What I mean is there should be…
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December 12, 2013
Review: Foul Play
Gather ‘round my friends, and let’s listen to the gentlemanly tales of Baron Dashforth and his companion Mr. Scampwick. Stories full of skullduggery, malicious villains, and the most treacherous foe of all… repetition! Foul Play is a side scrolling beat ‘em up disguised as a theatre performance. While some innovative ideas separate the game from others in its genre, Foul Play is held back from greatness by simple combat and repetitive gameplay. (more…)
October 1, 2013
Dreamcast / Game Boy / Game Boy Advance / GameCube / iOS / PC / Playstation 2 / Playstation 3 / Retro / Saturn / Wii / Xbox 360
Worth Playing vol. 6: The Brawler Bunch
Brawlers, beat-em ups, side-scrollers (to an extent), and just plain arcade. Whatever you label the genre one thing is for sure: there are a ton of them out there!
Since I started playing video games on the NES there have been side-scrolling beat-em ups. My beginnings were with the Double Dragon series on the NES, which then evolved into the Genesis classics Golden Axe I and II. The love affair took off from there, with every generation producing unique and worthwhile entries in the genre. Though there has been a decline with the recent consoles, a spare brawler rises out of the ashes of nostalgia and captures my heart all over again. The following games aren’t in any sort of order. They’re all just games that are entirely worth your time.
August 10, 2013