Introduction and StoryGoblin Sword has been my latest impulse buy from the Nintendo Switch eShop. Goblin Sword is actually an iOS game that was released way back in 2014 by Gelato Games which has now been optimized and re-released for the Nintendo Switch on February 20th, 2020. The general story of Goblin Sword is, well, general. …
Introduction The past week has been quite the ride in the action-RPG world where Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem has finally been released after first being revealed on Kickstarter on May 14th, 2015. If you follow the link, you will see quite a different game than we received. I don't want to go into that aspect …
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Introduction Despite loving the MCU and Marvel comics in general, I admit that I've never played a game, outside of arcade cabinets, that is led by Superheroes. I got my first glimpse at what I thought would be the first I would have wanted to dive into, but my general reaction to the footage just …
Introduction and Story Axiom Verge is developed by Thomas Happ Games and was originally released in 2015. It's a side-scroller action-adventure game, akin mostly in my opinion to a mix between the NES's Metroid and SNES's Super Metroid. The game kicks off with a scientist named Trace conducting some sort of experiment in a setting …
Introduction God of War was developed by Santa Monica Studio and released on April 20th, 2018; coincidentally celebrating it's one year anniversary just a few days ago. My history with the God of War series up to now has been spotty. I thoroughly enjoyed the first game of the series, then increasingly lost interest in …
Introduction Battle Chasers: Nightwar is a turn-based RPG developed by Airship Syndicate and published by THQ Nordic. It was originally released in October 2017 for the PC, Mac, PS4 and XBox One and made its way to the Nintendo Switch and Linux in May 2018. Me, being late to everything, grabbed this for my Nintendo Switch …
Shadows of the Empire is not new to me. Back in the days of my youth when books were still taboo, I caught wind of this new Star Wars game coming out for the Nintendo 64. You couldn't get me to even stay occupied in a bookstore for five minutes, let alone pick up a …
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I could talk for hours about what Diablo II has done for me, starting as a young child and now carrying on into adulthood. It's a game that I re-visit frequently, and is still my go to when I want to dabble into the isometric Action-RPG genre. Over the years, I've spiced things up by …
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AGDQ 2019 is now over, but each run continues to be watchable through VODs that are recorded each year. This reddit thread shows all of the up to date VODs with time stamps, and the GDQ YouTube page will be uploading each run individually as we progress over these next few days. I had a …
It's January, which means another edition of Awesome Games Done Quick is here. The GDQ team has made a name for themselves by holding two separate week-long, massive, speedrunning marathons every year for the past nine years. Since it's inception, donation totals have reached over $15 million for various charities such as the Organization for …
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