Tag: 2017 Release

  • Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment (PC/Steam)

    Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment (PC/Steam)

    It’s been two years since I last visited the Shovel Knight franchise, and at that time I was highly impressed with Plague of Shadows, which was the first expansion on the base game, Shovel of Hope.  In that one, Yacht Club Games was able to successfully build upon the lore of the series, adding depth…

  • Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy: Crash Bandicoot (PC/Steam)

    Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy: Crash Bandicoot (PC/Steam)

    Aw Crash Bandicoot, you’ll always be a solid number ten in our hearts.  The tenth best selling game on PS1 that is.  And while that might sound like “damning with faint praise”, it slots Crash Bandicoot directly in between Metal Gear Solid (at the #9 slot) and Resident Evil 2 (at #11).  So pretty impressive…

  • Cuphead (PC/Steam)

    Cuphead (PC/Steam)

    As this blog has taken shape over the years, I’ve made reference to the fact that the original intent was to gather up game reviews I’d previously written into a single source repository.  Any article beginning with a “Review archived from [Date]” citation originally appeared somewhere else.  What I’ve never made explicitly clear was that…