Sakurai Discusses Smash Bros. and Online Play

In a recent video, Super Smash Bros. series creator Masahiro Sakurai took some time to talk about his feelings regarding the series in online play. As longtime fans of the series might have expected, it turns out that he’s not really a fan of supporting online features for Nintendo’s popular character fighter. It’s something that…

The Duck’s First Week with Tears of the Kingdom

Well, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was released just over a week ago.  While I’m usually behind most people when it comes to playing new games, you’ll typically find me at the game store on the release date of any new entry into the Zelda franchise.  I’ve now been playing this game…

Monopoly for Nintendo Switch: Demo Review

Seeing as I had recently gotten back into playing traditional board games, I was curious to try out the Nintendo Switch version of the most classic board game of all, Monopoly.  Surely most people are familiar with this game, where you buy property, try to get a monopoly by owning all property of a single…

Signalis Hit Harder Than Expected

I’ve brought it up a couple times already, but I just cannot seem to get Signalis out of my head lately. It’s not so much because of its gameplay though. Classically good as its systems and mechanics are, I found myself much more spellbound by everything surrounding it: the artwork, the atmosphere, the characters, the…

Saints Row (2022) First Impressions

For me and the new Saints Row game, playing it was never a matter of if but when. Yes, it released to a flurry of mediocre reviews last fall; and yes, I put off purchasing it then because of them. But the one positive notion that I took away from that mountain of middling was…

Looks Like Microsoft is Going to Buy Activision Afterall

For a minute, it looked like Microsoft’s buyout of Activision was going to be averted thanks to the EU not being on board with the merger. Unfortunately, it seems these sorts of mergers are all but inevitable. It was just announced a day or so ago that the EU’s regulatory body, the European Commission, just…

The Gardens Between: A Beautiful Tale of Friendship 

The Gardens Between is a puzzle game about two friends, Arina and Frendt, who find themselves on a series of islands where time flows in both directions.  Each island represents the pair’s memories of their time spent together, and the two must work as a team to reach the top of each island, all culminating…

Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics: Demo Review

Considering Mother Duck and I have accumulated a small collection of physical games to play in recent months, I thought it would also be fun to try out a digital collection of physical games called Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics for the Switch.  While the full game has, well, 51 games, the demo contains four,…

Compelling Inconveniences

It’s probably safe to say that most of us dislike inconvenience. I mean there’s almost no reason not to dislike it right? Having to wait; having to make extra trips or having to do extra chores, it’s all annoying, right? I feel that this is as true in games as it is in real life…well,…