The Nintendo Switch
Gamers looking for a sedate game that they can just tootle about should steer clear of Pepper Grinder: It is a game that definitely couldn’t be described as sedate…
Pepper Grinder is a non-stop, frenetic 2D platformer/puzzler/explorer where you control Pepper, a young girl who washes up on a sandy beach after a shipwreck, finding her grinder (powerful drilling device) is missing and so is her treasure!
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It’s fair to say that the Prince of Persia series – first introduced to the world by game designer Jordan Mechner in 1989 – is perhaps one of my favourite series.
The Lost Crown has gone back to its roots (visually, at least).
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While I’m spending most of my game time lately mucking around on my Valve Steam Deck (I’m contemplating a write-up for this esteemed site).
I’m finding I’m spending more time playing quirky, indie titles from indie publisher darling Devolver Digital.
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Replikator had me at “Top Down Sci-Fi Shooter”. I mean what’s not to love, being a huge Alienation fan and having grown up on the likes of Alien Syndrome, and Alien Breed.
Choose a rag-tag character from a bunch of rag-tag characters, including a Space Racoon. Board some crusty Space Stations and fight your way to the Boss. Yes, we’ve been here before.
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Advance Wars is a poster-child franchises for Nintendo. After tough turn-based campaigns on Gameboy Advance, it’s rebuilt now for the Switch. There is no mistaking the franchise has the Hearts and Minds of older gamers.
So now would be a good time to get it into the hands of today’s Nintendo faithful. Wouldn’t it?
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As someone who has, for the past five years or so, needed to come to terms with the fact that I do not have time in my life for long-winded RPGs.
Particularly JRPGs, Mato Anomalies has breezed in to scratch a very specific itch.
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I usually find that when I think about a game at lot when I’m not playing it.
Trying to find solutions to mysteries, mulling over exactly what did that cryptic conversation with a character mean, then I’m usually smitten with that game.
For me at the moment, that game is Dredge, a “fishing” game from a game development studio in my home town in New Zealand, that has buried itself into my mind and I can’t stop thinking about it, I can’t stop playing it.
I’m smitten with this indie gem.
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Gerard Campbell caught up with the team behind Black Salt Games.
A young development studio based in Christchurch, New Zealand, making waves with its debut game, Dredge.
Two years in the making, and coming from fledgling game development studio Black Salt Games, comprising the talents of Joel, Nadia, Mikey and Alex.
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Xmas Gift Guide this year? We hear that a lot.
So maybe, in this crazy post pandemic love-in we should give it a go, before we get to the end of “Cost of Living Level” Boss.
Here are a few things worth considering for Gamers, Friends of Gamers and/or the Family members we’ve kicked off the couch.
Please note – any links will be for information, not comission.
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To show how old I am, I played the original Shatter on PlayStation 3 back in 2009.
Describing it in a review as (and I quote) “one of those simplistic, visually appealing games that has a brilliant soundtrack and wears its retro roots proudly on its sleeve”.
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Save Room will appeal to a certain type of Gamer. When it floated by me on an email, I knew straight away I was one of them.
If you’ve ever been swamped by a cluttered inventory screen in your games, or just enjoy keeping it tidy then Save Room is for you.
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