Yoshi’s Woolly World
You can always count on Nintendo to put out solid first-party games! That’s a good thing, because, uh, if you’ve got a Wii U that’s the vast majority of what you’ve got to play on it. The NX is still...
View ArticleAnimal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
Animal Crossing has always been a series about customization; sure, there were ostensibly other goals like helping out the animals in your town, but all of that was just a means of getting more rugs,...
View ArticleThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
Gaming has its fair share of sacred cows, but it’s also got series that actually produce solid content time and time again. There aren’t many Mario games that are really terrible, for instance, and...
View ArticlePokkén Tournament
The Wii U is an interesting console in that it values quality above quantity. Chances are you won’t see a really solid Wii U game released every month…but the ones worth buying are really worth...
View ArticleMetroid: Samus Returns
It’s always nice to play a new entry in a beloved game series. Well, “always” might be stretching it a tiny bit. Certainly we’ve all played games in a series we love that didn’t live up to our...
View ArticleCaptain Toad: Treasure Tracker
I remember Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker when I originally reviewed the Wii U version years ago. Well, it’s back, this time on a console that you probably have already. I’m not going to go on an...
View ArticleE3 2015: Yoshi’s Woolly World Hands-On Impressions
Few companies can find the inspiration in basic things like Nintendo, be it paper-flat sprites, clay models, or in the case of Yoshi’s Woolly World, a return to the whole yarn aesthetic so playfully...
View ArticleSuper Mario Maker
User-generated content (UGC) is getting bigger and bigger these days, and it’s easy to see why. First and most importantly, it’s cheap – much cheaper than paying professional content creators. Second,...
View ArticleSkylanders: SuperChargers
Christmas is coming! If I were more generically cynical I’d go on about how it’s actually just a consumer-focused holiday that’s all about buying stuff…but the fact of the matter is that I love buying...
View ArticleChibi-Robo: Zip Lash
Nintendo’s got an impressive stable of intellectual properties that seems to grow every year – it seems like only yesterday we saw the release of Splatoon, a popular title that’s bound to see some...
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