The Edge of Allegoria (Switch, PC)
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Posted on September 29th, 2025 by
The best way to describe this game is that it’s Pokémon with a potty mouth. The Edge of Allegoria is an old school styled RPG with a green and white color palette similar to the Game Boy. It has some similarities to Pokémon, too. You don’t train and fight monsters, but the battle screen and the map are very similar to that series. In the game you play as a generic person who goes out to make something of themselves. You come to a town with a goblin problem, and beat up the leader in a dungeon, only to have other goblins come and demolish your house. Then a fairy comes to tell you that the world is not in balance anymore after you fight her. And in typical RPG fashion, you just go on from there, visiting towns for clues and items and fighting monsters on route to dungeons. Only other thing that sets this game apart from others is that it uses more curse words in the text than any other video game I’ve ever seen! It’s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.
Let’s Tour the Welcome Tour!
Posted on September 26th, 2025 by
When the Nintendo Switch 2 released earlier this year, one of the launch games was the download only Welcome Tour. It was set up like a museum, and you controlled a little person as they walked around a giant Switch 2 and its accessories. You could play mini-games, try tech demos, and take quizzes on facts about the new console. To me, it sounded like a lot of silly, quirky fun. And I love games that have museums in them, whether it be Namco Museums or Animal Crossing. There was only one problem. They charged you for it. It really should’ve come with the system, and that’s what it’s going to be known for from here on out. I really wanted to boycott it and not buy it to support that kind of behavior. But here’s the thing. I only believe in boycotting if it doesn’t hurt yourself. And the game still sounded interesting enough to me that I didn’t want to miss out on it. Life is too short to miss out on what you think is fun. So I got it. It was only ten bucks anyway, and I can spend more money than that on fast food! So I figured I’d take you all on a tour of the Welcome Tour!
Glover (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on September 24th, 2025 by
I first started writing video game reviews way back in 1996 for The Dallas Morning News (yeah, newspapers, remember those?), and it was around the same time that the N64 was released. So I got to review a lot of N64 games then. But surprisingly, Glover wasn’t one of them. Which is strange because I remember Hasbro Interactive, the publishers of that game at the time, being one of my first PR contacts. Since then I’ve read and watched a lot of stories about how Glover was a memorable game to people as a kid, for better or for worse. So I’m glad that I’m finally able to review the game with QByte Classics re-release of Glover. It’s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.
D.U.C.K. Dangerous Ultimate Cartridge Kidnapper (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on September 22nd, 2025 by
A group of duck friends finds an old game cartridge and decides to take it home and play it. But when they do, an evil spirit emerges and traps them in the room and forces them to play games to make it out alive! This game is a take on WarioWare, where you play small mini-games in succession. But instead of games that only take seconds to play, these are a bit more involved and may take a minute or longer to beat. And most are imitations of arcade and console classics, from titles like Namco’s Tank Battalion or Game & Watch to Rhythm Heaven! The game is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.
The Shops at Tamagotchi Plaza
Posted on September 19th, 2025 by
Remember those Tamagotchi virtual pet keychains that were super popular in the late 90s? Well they’ve never really gone away. In fact, back on the Nintendo DS, they had a series of games called Tamagotchi Corner Shop, and there were three of them! You ran little shops and would play touch screen mini-games to serve and help out other Tamagotchi customers. My brother Jeff and I were weirdly obsessed with those games back in the day, probably because we did like those virtual pets (Jeff was even a Tamagotchi for Halloween one year when he was little). Well, Tamagotchi Plaza is the sequel to those games, so of course I had to get it. There are a dozen shops for you to run, and two more if you have the Switch 2 version. I thought it might be fun to run through the shops in this game, so let’s go!
Fruitbus (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on September 17th, 2025 by
In a world full of talking, anthropomorphic animals, your grandma owns a food truck that serves fruit salads. When she retires, she wants to have a party and invite all her friends. So you must use the Fruitbus to drive all over the island and serve fruit salads to customers and convince her friends and family to come to her retirement party in this food truck simulation game. Fruitbus is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.
Hop N Marty (Switch, PC)
Posted on September 15th, 2025 by
A while ago I reviewed a game called Regina & Mac. It was a 3D platformer trying to imitate Banjo-Kazooie, but it was really awful. And now we have another one with Hop N Marty. In this one, Marty is a marmoset and Hop is his poison dart frog friend. When an evil pirate kidnaps their pygmy marmoset friends, the two hop into action to save them in this Banjo-Kazooie imitator. But is it any better than Regina & Mac? You’ll just have to read on to find out! It’s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on September 12th, 2025 by
I’ve always been a big fan of the Shantae series, ever since it started on the Game Boy Color. When its successor, the Game Boy Advance came out, the makers of Shantae (WayForward) made a Shantae GBA sequel but they couldn’t find a publisher so it never came out on that platform. I’ve always thought that the DSiWare Shantae game WAS that reworked GBA title but I guess I was wrong because here comes Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution! WayForward finished the GBA game and even released it on a GBA cartridge a few months ago through Limited Run. And now you can download it on all current consoles and PC, too! (reviewed on Switch here)
Maki’s Adventure (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on September 10th, 2025 by
A group of islands in a small sea are protected by a trio of shark demons. But when they pass on, the evil octopus demon Octavio decides to take over the seas. So now it’s up to a young shark demon named Maki to stop him in this 2D platforming adventure game. Maki’s Adventure is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.
CORE.SYS (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S)
Posted on September 8th, 2025 by
Follow patterns and avoid red squares on a 5×5 grid in CORE.SYS, an action puzzle game with a hacker motif. It’s available on all current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here.
