Space Invaders Extreme is, in many ways, to Space Invaders as Pac-Man Championship Edition is to Pac-Man. They’re similar visually, and both find ways to work modern game design into an old formula, but they do so in different ways. Pac-Man Championship Edition did it through pattern memorization and clever level design, and Space Invaders [...]

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin does a lot of things right: presentation, sound, unit balancing, and controls all work fine, and suit the DS perfectly. Yet, what’s underneath the hood of this sleek ’67 Shelby is a core engine that, while balanced, gets repetitive, boring, and full of stalemates.
As with previous titles in the series, [...]

If you buy Professor Layton and the Curious Village, get ready to be constantly confused. In The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, there are two boys playing catch in the starting town that give you hints on how to play the game, like “press start to access the item menu,” followed by “but I have [...]

 
 
 
Players: 1-2
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo
Genre: Action Adventure
Review By: Zvi Finklestein
 
“Built on a great engine that’s just begging for a better game to be designed around it.”

 
 
 
Players: 1-8
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo
Genre: Puzzle
Review By: Zvi Finklestein
 
“Yup, more training in minutes a day.”

 
 
 
Players: 1-4
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Inis
Genre: Music
Review By: Zvi Finklestein
 
“A standout title on DS.”

 
 
 
Players: 1-4
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo
Genre: Puzzle
Review By: Zvi Finklestein
 
“About as much as you could fuck up Tetris.”

 
 
 
Players: 1-8
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Game Freak
Genre: RPG
Review By: Michael Fox
 
“Good things don’t last.”

 
 
 
Players: 1
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Cing Inc.
Genre: Adventure
Review By: Zvi Finklestein
 
“A gloomy yet beautiful work of art.”

 
 
 
Players: 1-4
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo
Genre: Platformer
Review By: Zvi Finklestein
 
“Not a classic, but a solid platformer all around.”