Cozy Grove is, to put it simply, kind of like Animal Crossing, but with a greater emphasis on story. You play as a Spirit Scout and must help out the ghostly bears that inhabit the island by completing various fetch quests for them. Along the way, you’ll feed your sentient campfire Flamey with logs to…
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Unravel 2’s Smooth Gameplay is Unravelled by a Weak Story
The original Unravel was a sweet and unique platformer where you play as a little creature named Yarny (made from yarn, as the name suggests) who can solve puzzles and traverse photo-realistic environments (spanning natural Swedish landscapes to industrial locations) using yarn. You can swing from yarn, make bridges with yarn, and even make trampolines…
Europa: Demo Review
Not to be mistaken for Youropa, the correctly spelled Europa follows an android named Zee on an adventure on one of Jupiter’s moons. It seems mankind relocated here, but aside from some old ruins, no sign of them remains. So what happened? Perhaps the game will answer the questions posed by the demo…
A Little to the Left is a Little Tedious
As part of one’s Nintendo Switch Online subscription, apparently free game trials are available, in which you have a limited time to play a game for free. I just found this out recently when Nintendo emailed me about a game trial for a puzzle game called A Little to the Left. I had about a…
Fall of Porcupine: Demo Review
Fall of Porcupine follows the story of a new doctor named Finley at the underfunded St. Ursula’s Hospital in the small town of Porcupine, inhabited only by anthropomorphic animals. The demo took me about 1.5 hours to complete, and in that time, I mainly focused on treating three patients, hanging out with fellow coworkers Karl…
A Short Hike: A Relaxing Adventure on Hawk Peak Island
As the stresses of life continue to pile up, I’ve been finding myself more and more drawn to relaxing games that are more about a casual experience than strenuous gameplay. One such game that I recently got on sale was A Short Hike, where you play as a bird named Claire who’s vacationing on Hawk…
Hoa: A Beautiful and Relaxing Platformer
Hoa (pronounced “hwa”) is Vietnamese for “flower” and also the name of a lovely indie game and said game’s titular character, a tiny fairy-like creature the size of a bug. This relaxing game features stunning hand-painted artwork, a beautiful soundtrack, and a peaceful atmosphere where the focus is solely on platforming and minor puzzling. This…
Updated New Horizons Island and House Tour
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a short post over on my own blog about a tour I created for my house and 5-star island (which I named Quackville) in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This partially Disneyland-themed island received some changes before the inevitable exhaustion from playing the same game (even if…
VIRTUAL BASTION 