Let’s Ride: Best in Breed 3D Review

Title: Let’s Ride: Best in Breed 3D Developer: Smackdown Productions Publisher: TREVA Entertainment GmbH (eShop Version)/THQ (Retail Version) Release Date: September 26, 2013 (eShop Version)/March 20, 2012 (Retail Version) Price: $19.99 (eShop version) You probably know about horse-raising simulators, after Pony Friends and Horse Life for the Nintendo DS. They’re like pet simulators, except you …

Shin Megami Tensei IV Review

If you’re into demons or not, Shin Megami Tensei IV might interest you. It’s the latest game in the Shin Megami Tensei video game series as of writing this and it’s $10 more expensive than its previous 3DS titles. Don’t let the $10 price difference fool you. It may not be worth it for some, …

Happy Circus (3DS eShop) Review

Title: Happy Circus Publisher: Moving Player Release Date: October 3, 2013 Price: $3.99 Are you a parent despairing at your toddler dribbling all over their Nintendo 3DS yet never learning? Before you decide to take away their console, drive them to depression culminating in a rebellious teenage and ruin their life, consider games like Happy …

Astro (DSiWare) Review

Title: Astro Publisher: Enjoy Gaming Ltd. Developer: 7 Raven Studios Release Date: September 26, 2013 Price: $1.99 Along with scrolling shooters and their sub-genre bullet hell games, there exists – or rather existed, as it’s lost almost all its popularity now – one kind of shoot ’em up which didn’t scroll and had you rushing …

Halloween: Trick or Treat 2 (3DS eShop) Review

Title: Halloween Trick or Treat 2 Publisher: Microvalue Developer: Virtual Playground Release Date: October 3, 2013 (NA) Price: $7.99 If you’re one of those people who read R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps as children, Halloween: Trick or Treat 2 will definitely intrigue you. I know, because I am like you, except I’m far more shameless. I read …

Snowboard Xtreme (DSiWare) Review

Title:Snowboard Xtreme Developer/Publisher: EnjoyUp Games Release Date: January 3, 2013 Price: $1.99 Usually when a developer makes a terrible game, there’s a little bit of sympathy for them that sprouts from the notion that they didn’t know what they were doing wrong or they didn’t have enough time, and they will deliver next time. Unfortunately, …

Metal Torrent (DSiWare) Review

Title: Metal Torrent Developer: Arika Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: May 24, 2010 Platform: DSiWare Price: $4.99/500 Points Before Metal Torrent, DSiWare was a very barren territory for shmup (shoot ’em up) fans. And it makes sense – the bullet hell genre has never been extremely popular outside of Japan, left to a few generous efforts …

Carps and Dragons for Nintendo 3DS – Review

Fishing games are fun. Not all of them, specially not the ones on home consoles but fishing games on a handheld console are more enjoyable and kill a lot of your time. Today we’re going to review the Carps and Dragons game for Nintendo 3DS. Don’t let the name fool you, it’s not a dragon …

Zombie Skape (DSiWare) Review

Title: Zombie Skape Developer/Publisher: EnjoyUp Games Platform: DSi/3DS (DSiWare/eShop) Release Date: December 13, 2012 Price: 200 Points/$1.99 Brought to you by Spanish developer EnjoyUp Games, Zombie Skape is a DSiWare game that was apparently timed for people fearing the zombie apocalypse to have played it by December 21, 2012; it was a second effort for …