It seems like a video game should make the task it depicts seem fun, exciting, or at least moderately engaging. Ultra Off-Road 2019: Alaska bucks convention by making off-road exploration seem like a tedious slog, both filled with items to gather and endless menus of minutia to navigate. If you’re into recreating the common off-road experience of getting stuck headlight first in a bolder while your driver starves to death within a matter of minutes, this is the game for you. Anyone else might want to look elsewhere for their virtual driving thrills. It should be noted that, in some places, the attention to detail in this game is incredible. Every vehicle handles so differently that I noticed it instantly, each with unique strengths and…
Pig Eat Ball is, for better or worse, the first vomiting pig game that I’ve ever played. It has a very distinct style, is cartoonishly grotesque without being disgusting, and certainly has a sense of humor. The usually inventive arcade gameplay’s creativity sometimes falters, leaving the fleeting impression that the poor pig will be stuck eating dots for an eternity’s worth of levels, but there’s more than enough going on in this game to make it memorable. I truly respect Pig Eat Ball’s dedication to being a surreal screaming nightmare. The sprite based graphics are interesting without being particularly attractive. The garish colors, off-putting sprites, and copious amounts of lime green cartoon vomit all come together to give this game a unified, unique and memorable…
Into the Dead 2 offers some seasonally appropriate and mindless violence for Switch gamers. In short sessions, it’s a fantastic way to take out zombies and blow off stress before switching over to a game better suited for long play sessions. Trying to play it for a long time, however, makes the downsides of its mindlessness a little too clear. Into the Dead 2 is dressed up with some very fancy presentation. The graphics are pretty good. The environments tend to run together a little, and there’s a surprising level of pop up and fog for a Switch game, but the overall look is polished and consistent. The sound is good, too, with decently atmospheric sound effects and full, well done voice acting. Watching a…
SNES Mascot platformers were a mainstay of my grade school gaming time. Playing Jet Kave Adventure instantly reminded me of renting an unfamiliar third party platformer for the weekend, and that feeling never really left me as I played through it. The amount of moves the main character has is strictly modern, and the amount of things to collect is comparable to some of the better platformers I’ve played. However, the generic look and feel of Jet Kave Adventure reminded me more of the curiosities I was briefly fascinated with than the well-known classics. Jet Kave Adventure is a 2.5D platformer where you play as Kave, a caveman who finds a jet pack after aliens land on his island. The combination of high and low…
Sometimes I feel that, with a little more work, a bad or mediocre game could become something really worth playing. I am not sure that this is the case for Billy Bomber. This game feels like a knockoff mobile game from five years ago, and while it would be a decent enough diversion for a free, if not riddled with ads, afternoon with your smartphone, it is not quite enough for the Switch eShop. Billy Bomber is a physics based puzzler in which you play as a round blob of a construction worker, tasked with gathering stars and reaching a flag. If you reach the flag without gathering any stars, which give you nothing, anyway, you still clear the level. In easy mode, this makes…
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