I was looking for a different casual game when I heard about Hometown Story. You can see for yourself that Natsume printed the US box art with “The Family of Harvest Moon.” Who would not have be convinced by this, especially if you are a fan of the series? I was convinced by another thing, …
Another Level-5 game fell into my love. Many Guild02 games focus on story rather than gameplay. The Starship Damrey defies what constitutes Level-5’s brand that has been bringing games with a light atmosphere. Two people, Kazuya Asano and Takemaru Abiko, offered us a rather dark, suspense theme. They are famous for Banshee’s Last Cry, and …
Title: Retro City Rampage DX Developer/Publisher: Vblank Entertainment Release Date: February 6, 2014 Price: $9.99 Retro City Rampage has been around since 2012, but it’s in 2014 that the 3DS gets this title as Retro City Rampage DX with updated features and with all previous patches included. Judging from developer-publisher Vblank’s insistence in the press …
HARDNESS IS COMING GAMEPLAY Well, the first thing to say about this game is this isn’t a normal platform game. No enemies or jump, the game is just avoiding and exploring. Instead of the jump, you flip, so you will be switching the gravity to complete the game. If you think this game is easy, …
Title: Castle Clout 3D Developer/Publisher: Teyon/Selectsoft Release Date: January 30, 2014 Price: $4.99 Angry Birds in an Age of Empires setting – that’s what Castle Clout 3D is. (I’m aware that the Age of Empires games have a variety of historical time-spans, but it’s cumbersome to point that out in the opening sentence). Teyon have …
THAT BIKE IS INDESTRUCTIBLE! The game is divided into two modes – an endless mode and a level-based one. The controls of both modes are the same, you jump with the button A (you can do a double jump by pressing A again) and increase or decrease the bike speed with the D-Pad or Circle …
FOR FREE OR NOT, A MUST HAVE GAME. Cave Story 3D, created by just one guy, was released for free on PC platforms in 2004, and now, ten years later, is still a legendary game. The game was ported to the Nintendo Wii in 2008, offering a new translation, better double resolution graphics, new mods, …
Title: Chain Blaster Release Date: July 25, 2013 Developer/Publisher: G-Style Price: $6.99 Ask anyone to name a 3DS bullet hell game that isn’t Kokuga or one of the 3D Classics games and they’ll most likely umm and ahh for a few seconds before telling you that they don’t know of any other. Chain Blaster, by …
I was convinced to buy this 3DS eShop exclusive game when my friend posted about it. I watched the promotional video and thought, “Hey, is this another Ghibli Studio-made like Ni no Kuni?” Oh it’s Level-5 again, mates. While it is a compilation game from Guild02 and was not developed by Level-5 alone (it’s Kaz …
Jumping like crazy. A game made by one person, just to make you suffer. This is a review of Cubit The Hardcore Platformer Robot for the Nintendo 3DS. Note: This review got an update, you can see it here. GAMEPLAY There were a lot of hard games this year such as Fire Emblem Awakening, Shin Megami …