Category: Reviews
Razer Kitsune Arcade Controller Review – I’m a Believer
Somebody once told me that leverless controllers for fighting games were a gimmick or cheating. I didn’t really know what they meant because I had only just started dipping my toes into the world of fight sticks with the 8BitDo Arcade Stick for Nintendo Switch and PC. I never had a chance to try a…
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‘Gubbins – It’s A Word Game’ Review – Sometimes The Extra Gubbins Make The Difference
Is that the full title then? Gubbins – It’s A Word Game (Free)? I’m just going to call it Gubbins from here on out. If I need to talk about normal gubbins, I’ll write it without the capital letter G like I just did there. But I don’t have an old brown sofa, so the…
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‘Tiny Connections’ Review – It Really Is All About Your Connections
Short Circuit Studio is up-sizing their scope. No longer content to dwell in the realms of the Teeny Tiny, the developer has now moved up a full grade to merely Tiny. Tiny Connections (Free), that is. Its previous game, Teeny Tiny Town, was a lovely little update to a well-established older mobile game with a…
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‘Samurai Shodown II ACA NEOGEO’ Review – It’s Time For Another ‘Shodown’, Again
I keep thinking that I might not need to review all of these double dip ACA NEOGEO releases that are covering titles that already existed via the decade-old Dotemu versions. And who knows? Maybe I don’t. If I have something to say, however, then I’m going to go ahead and do it. Samurai Shodown II…
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‘Football Manager 2024 Review’ – Touch (Apple Arcade, Switch), PC (Steam Deck), Mobile (Netflix), and Console (PS5) Covered
SEGA and Sports Interactive released multiple versions of Football Manager 2024 across different platforms earlier this month. While that has always been the case for the different versions of the game as the series expanded to more audiences, this year sees it arrive on even more platforms than in recent years, and even gives us…
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‘Metal Slug 3 ACA NEOGEO’ Review – SNK’s Biggest Slugfest Returns
All the way back in August of 2012, Dotemu and SNK released an iOS version of the NEOGEO classic Metal Slug 3. For its time, it was about as good of a port as you could ask for, hampered only by the difficulty of playing such a precise game with virtual controls. But time marches…
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‘Blazing Star ACA NEOGEO’ Review – A Bonus Shooting Star in SNK’s Sky
Having largely exhausted the supply of NEOGEO games that hadn’t been ported to mobile before, Hamster has been moving in re-doing some of the games that were previously brought over by Dotemu. It makes sense, as SNK’s less comprehensive initiative with Dotemu mainly focused on the biggest hits from its catalog. They were good versions…
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‘Kingdom Eighties’ Mobile Review – iOS, Switch, and Steam Deck Tested
Well it happened again. I’m reviewing a game that Jared picked as our Game of the Week. I’d like to believe this is because we see the quality in specific games, but it is also because we both enjoy writing about great games on mobile. That’s where Kingdom Eighties ($4.99), the newest standalone entry in…
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‘Resident Evil Village’ iPhone 15 Pro Review – A Stunning Conversion on a Technical Level, but Lacking in Ways
When Apple usually shows off a few games for its new iPhone models during phone events, they are either older mobile games or new bespoke ones. For the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, Apple surprised us with the reveal of Capcom’s upcoming ports of Resident Evil 4 Remake and Resident Evil Village (Free) in…
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‘Subpar Pool’ Review – Amazing on iPhone, iPad, Switch, and Steam Deck
You know that Vince McMahon reaction meme? That is almost how I reacted when I saw the email notification for grapefrukt games’ subpar pool ($4.99). You see, I love golf games, pool mini-games, and games by grapefrukt like rymdkapsel, so having all three of those together felt like a game that was literally made for…
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