Hey, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball‘s out on the Nintendo Switch in Japan! It’s a shame that the Power Pros franchise hasn’t made it back to the West in more than a decade, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get it from Japan and have fun anyway. Watch!
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What… is this? That’s a fair reaction to Our Flick Erasers, a release from budget game maker SAT-BOX that recently made its way to the West. It’s a simple sort of game with ideas that began on mobile, but it’s packed with nonsense and fun at a very base level. Watch for a better look!
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Do you love cats? Do you have a deep-seated hostility toward cats? Asameshimae Nyanko somehow appeals to both of these sorts of people through a universal language: reversi. Watch!
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Like Picross? How about Minesweeper? Hudson Soft’s obscure Japan-only GBA release, Hatena Satena, combines the two into one colorful, addictive puzzler. Watch!
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A Sega game on a Nintendo system isn’t any surprise these days, but in 1999, it certainly still was. Which makes Columns GB: Osamu Tezuka Characters a curious release! Let’s take a look.
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Fans of the peculiar probably know all about Cubivore. The quirky game from developer Saru Brunei was one of the weirdest releases on the GameCube and, for some, as fun as it was rare. But Saru Brunei made one more game in its short life as a developer: Jungle Park: Saturn Island for the Sega Saturn!
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Sometimes all it takes to make a great game is a compelling base premise and a charming aesthetic. Sure, that part’s hard, but most releases try to justify themselves by throwing in lots of features and modes, but if your one feature and one mode just happens to be really very good, maybe that’s all you need. Madoris R is one of those games.
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Etrian Odyssey Nexus releases next week, closing out the series’ 3DS era and, in many ways, the 3DS era in general! We’re taking a look at what the game has to offer in this two-part video preview. Here’s part two!
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