Review Wario Land 4 (GBA) - A Boisterous But Impeccably Designed Platformer

Quality over quantity

This review was originally published in May 2014. We're updating and republishing it to mark the game's arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack GBA library. Although Wario's core platforming series has been overshadowed for years by the surrealist microgames of WarioWare, his excellent platformers have the sort...

• Fri 14th Feb 2025
• Reviews
• Wario
• GBA
• Retro
• Nintendo Switch Online

Review Devil World - A North American Debut For Nintendo's Curious Pac-Man 'Clone'

Heaven a good time

This review was originally published in November 2014. We're updating and republishing it to mark the game's arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online NES library — and its official debut in North America nearly 40 years after its Japanese launch on Famicom. As far as obscure releases within the NES library go, Devil World is...

• Tue 31st Oct 2023
• Reviews
• NES
• Nintendo Switch Online
• Retro

Review Metroid Fusion - An Infectious, Portable Pleasure

SA-Xcellent

This review originally went live in 2014, and we're updating and republishing it to mark the game's arrival in Switch's GBA library via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack. Released a full eight years after its phenomenal Super Nintendo predecessor, Super Metroid, 2002's Metroid Fusion is a well-paced, tense, atmospheric game and...

• Thu 9th Mar 2023
• Reviews
• Metroid Fusion
• GBA
• Nintendo Switch Online
• Retro

Review Super Metroid (New 3DS / SNES)

Superb Metroid

Nintendo has certainly brought out the big guns for the opening salvo of SNES games on the New Nintendo 3DS, with classic game after classic game arriving on the portable. It won't last and there may even be mediocre spin-offs or complete dross in the future, but for now New 3DS owners should enjoy the brilliance that is Super...

• Mon 21st Mar 2016
• New Nintendo 3DS
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• Super Metroid
• Retro

Review Wild Gunman (Wii U eShop / NES)

You mean you have to use your hands?

Just like Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley, Wild Gunman was one of the first games released to take full advantage of the NES Zapper, and can now be played on the Wii U by using the Wii Remote's pointer instead. Based on Nintendo's light gun arcade machine, you might even remember seeing it in the Cafe 80's in Back to...

• Sat 7th Nov 2015
• Wii U eShop
• Reviews
• Wild Gunman
• Retro

Review Hogan's Alley (Wii U eShop / NES)

Not exactly a bullseye

One of the earliest NES games released, Hogan's Alley is also possibly the most well-known Zapper game after the classic Duck Hunt. But does it hold up as well as its lightgun game partner? The premise of Hogan's Alley is fairly simple. You are (seemingly) some sort of police officer or soldier doing shooting practice, with...

• Mon 2nd Nov 2015
• Wii U eShop
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• Hogans Alley
• Retro