Mini Review: The Last Friend – Fantastic, Fast-Paced Tower Defense, With Pettable Good Boys Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - April 23, 20220 Me and the bois.The Last Friend places you in control of Alpha, a strong and silent protagonist who travels a wasteland in a decked-out RV with a pack of his best friends. His best friends, of course, are dogs. Their leader is a spicy little chihuahua named T. Juan who
Talking Point: With BOTW2 Slipping, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Launching Early Is Fantastic News Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - April 19, 20220 "Bringing together the futures" of its predecessors.Though Xenoblade Chronicles is not the biggest-selling franchise to consistently grace Nintendo's hardware, it's clear that Nintendo is happy to recognise that some brands and genres deserve support for the loyalty they earn among fans. MonolithSoft, a company majority-owned by Nintendo that often pops
Mini Review: Raging Blasters – Another Fantastic Shmup We'd Love To See In The West Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - February 20, 20220 Compile killer.It’s just as well one can never have too many shoot-'em-ups, because, no bones about it, Raging Blasters is absolutely fantastic. A Japan-only release on Switch (though available on Steam) that's magically entirely in English from top to bottom, this is the kind of indie-gaming labour of love that
Best Of 2021: New Super Mario Bros. Is 15 Years Old, And It's Still Fantastic Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - December 27, 20210 Celebrating Mario's big 2D comeback on its anniversary.Over the holidays we're republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you'll find our usual mix
Review: Unsighted – A Fantastic Top-Down Metroidvania With A Warm, Vintage Feel Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - November 22, 20210 The final countdown.Sometimes a great idea needs time to mature. Just because a smart concept isn’t executed all that well, it doesn’t mean there isn’t an excellent game coming a sequel or two down the line. What’s incredible about Unsighted is that first-time indie dev Studio Pixel Punk has created
Mushihimesama Gets A Fantastic Switch 'Mini Arcade' Limited Edition Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - October 26, 20210 Yes, it will also work with the OLED.Mushihimesama may be a name that some will struggle to even pronounce, but don't let that get in the way as it's also a fantastic shoot 'em up on Switch. Originally an acclaimed arcade in 2004 from the masters at Cave, we gave
One Piece’s Luffy Vs. Mr. Fantastic: Which Elastic Hero is Stronger? Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) - October 11, 20210 While there are several superheroes blessed with the uncanny power of elasticity, two of the more iconic stretchy comic book heroes are One Piece's Monkey D. Luffy and the Fantastic Four's leader Mr. Fantastic. Naturally, since their powers are based on their ability to stretch and contort themselves in unworldly forms, the question becomes, whose stretchability is the strongest.Neither Luffy nor Mr. Fantastic were born with their powers. Instead, each came onto their powers as a
X-Men Could Be A Fantastic Roguelike (In The Right Hands) Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by Matt Miller - October 9, 20210 In the world of comics, X-Men has been a hot property in recent years. While the popularity of Marvel’s mutants has rarely been at risk in the last couple of decades, the current narrative arc, launched with the House of X book in 2019, has injected
Fantastic Four: 10 Best Female Villains | Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) - October 9, 20210 The Fantastic Four count some of the greatest supervillains in Marvel Comics as their enemies, like Doctor Doom or Galactus. The majority of them are men, but a number of their adversaries in the last sixty years have been women. Some are fairly well known to comics readers, while others are a
Fantastic Metroid Dread Trailer Shows Off Frantic Gameplay And A New-Look Kraid Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - August 28, 20210 October can't come soon enough.Nintendo has dropped a brand new trailer for Metroid Dread, and wowzers is it looking good.The clip shows off some brand new gameplay footage, as Samus skates and dances around each murky area at lightning speeds. We also get a great look at some of the