2019-08-19 18:27
Pantsu Hunter: Back to the 90s is a visual novel that feels like you play through it in the same order it was constructed, confidently establishing the bizarreness of its setting and concept… Read More
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Killa Penguin is devoted to game reviews, from old Super Nintendo games to current-gen, graphic-card-melting powerhouses.
2019-08-18 22:15
Full disclosure: I ended up restarting this chapter, but not because I lost a character. Most of my characters have already reached the point where they’re virtually untouchable. Inste… Read More
2019-08-17 00:53
Chapter 5 of Fire Emblem: Three Houses is the second chapter that unexpectedly continues after you fulfill its win condition, and that’s bad. Throwing a tutorial at you at the very end… Read More
2019-08-16 02:21
Chapter 4 of Fire Emblem: Three Houses is called The Goddess’s Rite of Rebirth, and thankfully, it doesn’t lie about its end condition like the last chapter did. That makes it in… Read More
2019-08-14 20:39
I don’t really get excited about most games prior to release, but the Shantae series is one of only a few exceptions; after playing through Shantae: Risky’s Revenge in 2016 after… Read More
2019-08-14 05:42
I don’t know how WayForward finds the time to develop so many games. In addition to the upcoming Shantae 5 and River City Girls—and already-released games like the Mighty Switch… Read More
2019-08-14 04:14
Chapter 3 of Fire Emblem: Three Houses is called Mutiny in the Mist, and it’s the first chapter that I haven’t liked, skewing uncomfortably toward the stupid, poorly balanced gim… Read More
2019-08-12 17:47
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is a game that defies classification, but if I had to make an effort to describe it, I’d call it a combination of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, Super M… Read More
2019-08-10 17:53
Seeing as how this is a blind playthrough, it’s difficult to know how to distinguish between important things that’ll have an impact later and largely unimportant happenings that… Read More
2019-08-09 16:45
I’ve found that most games tend to become worse over time for a litany of reasons, but Tactics V: “Obsidian Brigade” is an exception, becoming steadily more enjoyable the f… Read More
2019-08-06 18:08
Tactics V: “Obsidian Brigade” is a retro-styled tactical RPG that borrows influence from console tRPGs in the 1990s like Final Fantasy Tactics and its many derivatives, and despi… Read More
2019-08-03 22:01
This might be surprising to read after my glowing Monster Boy And The Cursed Kingdom impressions, but the pacing and gameplay both suffer a pretty significant decline in the game’s sec… Read More
2019-08-01 21:42
I’m a bit late coming into Monster Boy And The Cursed Kingdom (which released on July 25th) thanks to how utterly slammed I was at the end of last month, and the review key coming thro… Read More
2019-07-31 06:28
As I was first playing COLLAPSED, I was struck by the possibility of creating an extra-powerful character similar to the ones you see on its Steam page, with projectiles bouncing every which… Read More
2019-07-30 17:05
COLLAPSED is a procedurally generated rogue-something where you play as a mutant hunter in a post-apocalyptic world. You begin in a hub area and have to fight your way past hordes of stage e… Read More
2019-07-29 19:00
It’s hard to tell if all of Fire Emblem: Three Houses‘ chapters will be quite as jam-packed as chapter 1. Characters and the rules of the world are obviously being established, r… Read More
2019-07-28 19:22
It’s tempting to look at Towertale‘s concept and assume that its claims of being story-driven belie a simplistic narrative about generic fantasy heroes chasing a MacGuffin, but t… Read More
2019-07-27 22:14
The Mighty Switch Force! Collection is a compilation of WayForward’s four mainline games in the series: Mighty Switch Force!, Mighty Switch Force! 2, Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive E… Read More
2019-07-27 03:39
Normally, I wouldn’t cover a brand-new game like Fire Emblem: Three Houses in a let’s play format because spoiling a bunch of plot points could be construed as disrespectful to t… Read More
2019-07-25 20:03
Back when Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition first came out, I played through its three Costume Pack campaigns for the first time, one of which was inspired by the Mighty Switch Force… Read More
2019-07-22 21:54
Galaxy Squad is a turn-based tactics game that blends the random events of FTL into the gameplay fundamentals of XCOM, topping both off with an aesthetically pleasing low-poly visual style a… Read More
2019-07-21 17:55
I’ve been following Galaxy Squad since last October, around a month before it was in Early Access on Steam, and the underlying promise of this turn-based tactics game stood out even ba… Read More
2019-07-19 04:25
Streets of Rogue is a procedurally-generated roguelite with oodles of unlocks and an uncommonly varied number of interacting mechanics that make it possible to solve problems as creatively o… Read More
2019-07-17 01:33
Picture this: you need to steal something out of a chest, but it’s inside of a building that’s protected by guards and turrets. A direct confrontation would be feasible if you ha… Read More
2019-07-15 07:00
Summer Catchers is best described as a narrative-heavy, vehicle-based endless runner game that asks you to complete a certain number of odd jobs on each of its 8 tracks before moving on to t… Read More
2019-07-13 14:45
Seven and a half years ago, I founded this site and proceeded to review a number of my favorite games, with Chrono Cross being the second such review. Articulating the pros and cons of a sup… Read More
![Chrono Cross: Retrospective Let’s Play, Part 14 – The [END]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/2770/277038-592210944.w320.jpg "Chrono Cross: Retrospective Let’s Play, Part 14 – The [END]")
2019-07-12 04:04
I love Chrono Cross for a number of reasons, but attempting to reach the good ending based on a paltry number of vague clues and things that have to be outright guessed really pissed me off… Read More
2019-07-10 05:56
Back in mid-March, Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition and Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition mysteriously disappeared from Google Play, not only becoming unavailable to purchase, but also v… Read More
2019-07-09 21:59
The first half of July is looking to be a complete and utter loss as far as new games are concerned, but on the bright side, that’s given me plenty of time to work on finishing up Chro… Read More
2019-07-07 19:18
Ever since I’ve had a Nintendo Switch, it’s suffered from a strange problem: whenever I open up my recording software (in this case Elgato’s Game Capture HD), my monitor be… Read More
2019-07-05 18:32
Between Mighty Switch Force! Collection coming to the Nintendo Switch and WayForward’s River City Girls, which is the next title in the River City Ransom series, there’s been qui… Read More
2019-07-04 18:06
It’s been well over three months since the last part of this Chrono Cross retrospective/let’s play/convenient excuse to play something I wanted to play, and coming back to any ga… Read More
2019-07-03 18:26
River City Girls is the next game in the River City Ransom franchise, developed and published by Shantae developer WayForward under the guidance of Arc System Works. We finally got some addi… Read More
2019-07-01 18:21
Lucah: Born of a Dream is a difficult game to describe, with its story being even more formless, disconnected, and dreamlike than one might even expect. Its mechanics likewise take some gett… Read More
2019-07-01 03:23
I’ve spent the past several days totally engrossed by the Nintendo Switch port of Lucah: Born of a Dream, the delightfully bizarre souls-like with an immediately striking visual style… Read More
2019-06-27 22:18
For several hours, I was enjoying puzzle/adventure game hybrid Pirates of First Star despite its penchant for crashing to the desktop. After all, it looks and sounds great, the story is amus… Read More
2019-06-26 16:50
Originally released in mid-2017 and now making its way to the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, and Xbox One, OVIVO is a platformer centered around a mind-melting mechanic: you can swap betwee… Read More
2019-06-25 18:24
Video games rarely play exactly the way you expect from their trailers, but the nearly two hours I’ve spent with Pirates of First Star has been incredibly true to every expectation its… Read More
2019-06-24 05:12
I covered the original Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 9 days after founding this site, and the resulting review was so predictably ugly and terrible that it was later removed. Even before purg… Read More
2019-06-22 06:28
Infinite Undiscovery is a 5/10 game in every respect, which makes it all the more appropriate that I landed on that particular score despite the peculiarities of my scoring system. This is a… Read More
2019-06-16 20:06
Around 11 months ago, I went on a buying spree to collect various seventh generation console-exclusive RPGs (with an emphasis on the Xbox 360 platform). Some, like Eternal Sonata, got covere… Read More
2019-06-07 05:33
When I found myself midway through jRPG homage Tropia‘s final dungeon after 4 or so hours, I remembered that its store page promised 5 hours of gameplay and felt a swell of pride at th… Read More
2019-06-04 06:16
Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa is a visual novel combined with a match-3 game that your character uses to strip characters at certain plot junctures and subsequently compel them to sp… Read More
2019-06-02 23:37
I hadn’t planned on doing impressions for Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa in the interests of time, as the key I was sent a week ago wasn’t a beta key and thus couldn&rsquo&hell…Read More
2019-05-31 21:05
Pinning down Smile For Me‘s specific genre is difficult, but suffice it to say that it’s a first-person adventure game with a bizarre sense of humor and a whole lot of heart. In… Read More
2019-05-31 16:15
This will mark the third time I’ve followed up on twin-stick shooter Hellmut: The Badass from Hell since reviewing its PC release back when it first came out over a year ago, though th… Read More
2019-05-29 19:25
It’s the 29th of May, which means that Red Thread Games’ Draugen is now officially released into the wild. Personally, I adored it despite some fairly significant preexisting fee… Read More
2019-05-28 23:03
Every so often, I liked to cover Kickstarter campaigns for games that appeared promising, and Between the Stars by Isolated Games was one such case. They actually sent me a key for the demo… Read More
2019-05-28 08:05
“This is real life, not a whodunit by Agatha Christie. There won’t be a convenient series of clues leading to a tidy resolution.” Midway through adventure-thriller Draugen… Read More
2019-05-24 21:25
Calling Smile For Me an adventure game is technically accurate, but it’s actually more like an adventure game blended into the craziness of 2014’s Jazzpunk, only with a level of… Read More
2019-05-20 21:09
Undead Horde is an action RPG blended into an Overlord/Pikmin-style management game where your horde of resurrected enemies deal the bulk of your damage and have to be continually replaced w… Read More
2019-05-19 19:09
First, a quick reminder that these frame rates are calculated by counting the changes in frames rather than having direct knowledge of exactly how many there are at any given time. That&rsqu&hell…Read More
2019-05-18 20:30
Undead Horde is a weirdly enjoyable mix of gameplay styles, combining the group management of something like Overlord or Pikmin with a largely melee-focused twin-stick shooter. The biggest h… Read More
2019-05-16 20:26
A little over a month ago, I put up some impressions of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney gushing about its quality and mentioning that I remember preferring it to its sequels, with the plan alwa… Read More
2019-05-15 21:07
SpellForce: Heroes & Magic is a turn-based mobile spinoff of the real-time strategy SpellForce series, existing as a kind of love letter to games like Heroes of Might and Magic while int… Read More
2019-05-10 19:33
SpellForce: Heroes & Magic is a premium app for Android and iOS devices that relies on turn-based gameplay more akin to Heroes of Might and Magic than the real-time strategy that SpellFo… Read More
2019-05-08 20:52
It’s May 8th, and that means that Infected Shelter—an enjoyably chaotic 2D beat-em-up that I’ve previously effused about—is officially out on Steam Early Access. Infe… Read More
2019-05-03 17:05
Infected Shelter‘s Steam page describes it as a combination of Mortal Kombat, Dead Cells, and Castle Crashers, which is to say that it’s a gory beat-em-up with procedurally gener… Read More
2019-05-02 17:34
When Tales of the Neon Sea is tasking you with exploring a crime scene to deduce what occurred or otherwise revealing interesting details about the world and its characters, it’s an ea… Read More
2019-05-02 00:13
When I first started playing Tales of the Neon Sea, I was in love with its cyberpunk aesthetic and well paced story that struck a balance between humor and seriousness. That game lasts for a… Read More
2019-04-29 23:36
The very first thing you do in Tales of the Neon Sea is limp away from a scythe-wielding enemy who will kill you if your timing is off, and this is a strange note to start on. In hindsight… Read More
2019-04-25 23:04
The best way of describing Zombotron would be to call it a strategic run-and-gun game vaguely reminiscent of what it’d look like if Contra had been developed as a tactical shooter. Som… Read More
2019-04-24 16:27
About two minutes ago, I opened a door in 2D side-scrolling gunner Zombotron. Normally that wouldn’t be especially noteworthy, but my character was walking into it at the same time, ca… Read More
2019-04-22 21:50
Back in June when Shape of the World first came out, its developers sent a Steam review key to my old email address, which I suspect has ended up on some kind of indie developer contact list… Read More
2019-04-21 22:36
Witch Thief is a 3D bullet hell shooter that uses a third-person camera view rather than a more traditional overhead one, and while it’s difficult, you’re able to select one of 5… Read More
2019-04-19 21:07
Geeksos is an Early Access top-down shooter taking place in a world where the bad practices of the video game industry—loot boxes, DLC, profit single-mindedness leading to layoffs&mdas&hell…Read More
2019-04-19 00:59
After a few sites caught wind of the existence of a WayForward-developed game called River City Girls, it’s now been officially announced. There’s not a lot of information yet ou… Read More
2019-04-18 20:01
Save Koch is a simulation game where you play as a mafia kingpin who’s under siege by one of several delicately balanced city factions in a world of anthropomorphic animals. All you kn… Read More
2019-04-15 22:37
A long, long time ago, a platform called Xbox Live Arcade existed and opened up the mass market to indies, and this was arguably responsible for ushering in a golden age for smaller develope… Read More
2019-04-14 22:03
One of the early reviews I wrote for this site was for the original Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, a game I adore in a series that I also adore. It wasn’t a very good review, and as suc… Read More
2019-04-12 00:16
Even at its worst, I never really hated Robotality’s Halfway so much as felt that it didn’t live up to its potential. Their recently released followup, Pathway, on the other hand… Read More
2019-04-11 16:43
With the release of From Software’s new game, a strangely omnipresent debate has arisen about whether easy modes, cheats, and accessibility features are a good or bad thing in the gran… Read More
2019-04-09 05:31
It’s been two years since I last looked at a freemium app, not that there’s been a lack of options to choose from. Mostly, I just feel that installing such shallow cash grabs ont… Read More
2019-04-06 20:10
Tomb Towers is a game that I’ve been quite fond of since I first played through it in its Early Access incarnation 11 months ago, and that time allowed me to totally lose any gameplay… Read More
2019-04-05 05:17
One of the downsides of Early Access is that while it appears that you get two game launch dates, both end up being more like half-launches. Case in point: excellent MSX-inspired puzzle-plat… Read More
2019-04-03 22:58
FAR: Lone Sails originally released on the PC in May of 2018 and garnered near-universal praise from critics. That’s not altogether surprising, seeing as how many critics fall all over… Read More
2019-04-03 01:52
Call it irrational, but FAR: Lone Sails‘s title was one of the main reasons why I hadn’t touched it until today’s Playstation 4/Xbox One release. The combination of generic… Read More
2019-03-29 22:05
As desperately as I wanted to love Grimshade, it’s a broken game—its mechanics are a mess, popups that explain how things work are either needlessly vague or outright empty, bugs… Read More
2019-03-28 17:42
Grimshade is a game that I’ve been drooling over since I first laid eyes on its hand-painted art style, and the claims that it’s inspired by 90s-era jRPGs certainly didn’t… Read More
2019-03-27 06:07
Long, long ago, there was a magnificent game development studio called Squaresoft, and they created many of the most iconic games and series on the NES, Super Nintendo, and Playstation 1. We… Read More
2019-03-26 21:55
The Puppet of Tersa is a charming episodic point-and-click adventure game that’s set to release its first episode of 5, titled A Curious Place, on March 28th. You play as Cynthia, a yo… Read More
2019-03-25 20:43
Things have been surprisingly busy lately, and over the past few days, that’s translated into only having small windows of time to work through various games. One Finger Death Punch 2… Read More
2019-03-24 21:14
The Unintended Consequences of Curiosity is a game that lives up to its title almost immediately, with your initial goal being incredibly unclear until you accidentally doom the player chara… Read More
2019-03-23 16:48
The Unintended Consequences of Curiosity is a great name that immediately caught my attention, while its unique South Park-meets-Earthbound art style makes a really nice second impression. T… Read More
2019-03-22 18:24
Once upon a time, there was a development studio named Troika Games, and they earned a reputation for releasing buggy games that were nevertheless unlike anything else on the market. That&rs&hell…Read More
2019-03-21 22:08
We’ve been playing as Lynx for so long that it’s almost strange to switch back into a brand-new Serge body, but doing so is required to make use of the dragon relics and push dee… Read More
2019-03-20 21:42
Satisfactory is a remarkably apropos name for a game where you slowly ramp up the production and processing of natural resources on an alien world, preying on the irresistible urge to constr… Read More
2019-03-20 00:28
Challenging mass-knifing simulator Party Hard 2 always had a lot of promise, but its rough initial state soured the underlying experience, leading to a review that I’d classify as &ldq&hell…Read More
2019-03-19 03:17
The original One Finger Death Punch currently sports a perfect user score of 10/10 on Steam, and having purchased and played the original shortly after it released there (despite never revie… Read More
2019-03-17 22:04
I spent most of March 15th out of commission with a killer migraine, which means that I only just realized that one of the press releases that went out that day pertained to an XCOM-inspired… Read More
2019-03-17 18:43
Unit 4 is an ultra-challenging platformer where the difficulty arises from a constant need for precision, and that’s the kind of game that I can really sink my teeth into, having recen… Read More
2019-03-17 08:37
For those who missed it, Fortnite developer Epic Games has a store now, and it’s nipping at Steam’s heels with a more generous developer cut and preexisting base of fanatical gam… Read More
2019-03-16 18:27
Unit 4 is a challenging platform game designed around a squad of 4 characters, each with their own unique abilities that can be used to overcome different types of obstacles, though more oft… Read More
2019-03-15 21:26
I told myself that it was imperative to avoid putting up another 3¾ hours of gameplay video because of how cluttered that made the formatting last time, only to end up recording 4&fra&hell…Read More
2019-03-14 19:31
I haven’t hunted down and reviewed a mobile game since .projekt (which was 11 months ago), and the reasons behind that are fairly simple: the ratio of freemium games to premium ones on… Read More
2019-03-13 20:30
I woke up to a full-blown blizzard, with all the computer and console-risky brownouts that such weather entails, so it felt like fate that I’d espy a press release for Vambrace: Cold S… Read More
2019-03-13 00:25
It’s tempting to look at the recent discovery of a Google patent related to a controller—pictured in the header—that connects to the search giant’s impending game str… Read More
2019-03-12 17:00
Claybook first caught my eye with some screenshots of a dead-eyed child staring enigmatically at a table full of clay objects. So many games look identical these days that something like tha… Read More
2019-03-10 17:28
Do you like videos? I certainly hope so, because there’s a combined 3¾ hours of Chrono Cross gameplay footage below that covers all sorts of craziness impossible to explain thro… Read More
2019-03-09 23:37
Azure Saga: Pathfinder is a game that I have incredibly positive memories of despite the sizable number of launch-day issues I ended up encountering when first covering its PC release. It sa… Read More
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