Game Completion 2021 #17 – Takeshi & Hiroshi
Platform: Switch Developer: Oink Games Inc. Publisher: Oink Games Inc. A short, abundantly charming, but ultimately empty narrative game.
Game Completion 2021 #16 – Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption
Platform: Switch Developer: DARK STAR Publisher: Another Indie An indie Soulslike that’s like no other, in that Sinner only aims to pay homage to some of FromSoft’s most popular boss fights, rather than all those things that come between them. …
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Game Completion 2021 #15 – Chronos: Before the Ashes
Platform: Switch Developer: Gunfire Games Publisher: THQ Nordic A solid indie Soulslike with an interesting premise that, surprisingly, cribs more from Demon’s Souls than its more popular brothers. A few problems hampered my enjoyment–badly telegraphed fighting spaces in boss arenas, …
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Game Completion 2021 #14 – Hellpoint
Platform: Switch Developer: Cradle Games Publisher: Tiny Build As a self-proclaimed ‘Soulslike’, Hellpoint’s inspiration is clear before you even boot up the game and is hammered home constantly when you do. As a fan of the subgenre, that’s not really …
Game Completion 2021 #13 – New Super Luigi U
Platform: Switch Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo AKA ‘High Stress: The Videogame’. Easily my least favourite Mario game. I’ll talk about it on N-Focus.
Game Completion 2021 #12 – Nightstorm Isle (Ashen)
Platform: Switch Developer: A44 Publisher: Annapurna Interactive Taken as part of Ashen, it’s a neat little area, but experienced after the fact, I came away a little disappointed. I’ll talk about that on an upcoming episode of N-Focus.
Game Completion 2021 #11 – Bowser’s Fury
Platform: Switch Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Bowser’s Fury is really good, but I don’t feel it’s the bold experiment others have made out. Also, it’s short, but the pacing is off if you’re being a completionist as you go.
Game Completion 2021 #10 – Super Mario 3D World
Platform: Switch Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Still one of my favourite 3D Super Mario games.
Game Completion 2021 #9 – Ashen
Platform: Switch Developer: A44 Publisher: Annapurna Interactive A super-stylised and accomplished riff on the FromSoftware formula. Derivative? Absolutely! But it does such a good job with many of the systems I love that it’s hard to be mad about it.
Game Completion 2021 #8 – Red Colony
Platform: Switch Developer: Rune Shimotsuji Storm Publisher: RunicCodes, Shinyuden Eugh.