At least, for those who didn’t know what Diablo really was like, before version 3. It’s all made much more accessible and fun to play. Forget health potions, character builds and scouring dungeons for loot. It’s always more involving to get together a group of friends than just one friend, and once we’re together, we usually prefer pulling out a real board game.Įver wanted to play a real dungeon crawler but got held back by the possibility of a carpel tunnel syndrome? Did Diablo 2’s skill tree make you dizzy and the hard decisions on where to dump attribute points net you an increased blood pressure? No more, with Diablo III: Diablo for Kids! Cruising through the killing fields by the press of a single button.

Mario Party Superstars: Rehashed Previous Party ParadeĪlthough I’m not against the concept, I’ve never been keen on buying virtual party games.

In March 2010, after witnessing the success of early indie video games like 2008’s Braid, Tom Happ started building a virtual world as a side project.

Axiom Verge: A One-Man Love Letter To NES Metroid.

Nineteen years later, Metroid Fusion for the Game Boy Advance finally got a much-deserved sequel! I’m ignoring Other M and Samus Returns right now as the story of Metroid Dread picks up where Fusion left off, and it’s been a very, very long time since we’ve seen Samus in action on a 2(. Metroid Dread: The Sequel Fusion Deserves?.Thomas Happ’s 2015 Axiom Verge thoroughly impressed me: it is a superb and faithful Metroid game that is not Metroid itself coded, designed, and composed by a single guy. Axiom Verge 2: Plenty of Nanites To Spice Things Up.

In it, you board spaceships, shoot stuff, watch “foomp”, “whizz” and “mumble” comic effects, loot even more stuff, and get the hell out of there. Void Bastards is as weird as the title suggests-but in a delightuf way.

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