Summer’s a great time to watch a Let’s Play! That’s what we hear, anyway. Each Friday in July, we’ll be posting episodes of our full campaign playthrough of Advance Wars: Dual Strike, the 2005 DS game from Intelligent Systems and the last release to feature the franchise’s iconic world and characters. Join us!
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After a long drought, the Shining series is back in the West. Most remember it from its early days on the Genesis, but Shining enjoyed a decent amount of success on the GBA and PS2 before disappearing from areas outside Japan for over a decade. It’s great to see Shining Resonance Refrain‘s worldwide release, but, well, is it fun to play?
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While the Lumines series has seen life over the past decade or so, there’s a particular charm to the initial PSP release, and a return addresses that nostalgic urge more than newer entries like Electronic Symphony and the mobile releases. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the game revisited, but it’s the latest, it brings with it a polish and some new features that make it worth a return.
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Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido released earlier this month! We say that because E3 makes June a busy time, and also because, if early reports are accurate, not a lot of players picked it up. This is not new for developer indieszero, making its decades-long mission delivering interesting, quirky games that may slip your notice! Let’s look at the team’s history and break down what you may have missed.
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While the PixelJunk franchise’s PS3 heyday has long passed, many of its concepts are well worth another look. None were ever quite as popular as PixelJunk Monsters, so developer Q-Games’ return to it doesn’t exactly come as a surprise, but a lot’s changed in the world of tower defense in the past decade and what the team kept, and scrapped, is interesting to explore.
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Want to have some quirky musical fun? Nintendo’s Jam with the Band, localized for Europe but never released in the States, is a cool little title with a lot of depth and gameplay to explore. Watch for more!
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What’s the best Pokémon game of all time? We’re deciding, once and for all, in this five-part video series: Bracket Monsters. They are the monsters and also maybe we are the monsters, but we do what must be done. Watch?
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It may be on the distant horizon, but a new main-series Mario Kart game is certainly on the way. And while its selection of new tracks could be all sorts of things, the franchise has built out some fairly standard patterns for its retro tracks. So we’re using those precedents to get a better idea of what we could see in the game’s four throwback cups!
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One of a line of Nintendo DS games to see a localization for Europe but no American release, Bomberman 2 is more than you may think. It’s got equipment, stats and a fun puzzle campaign to go along with its definitely-still-there multiplayer options, and… hey, watch already, will ya?
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