Super Mario Maker is an exciting game which gives you the opportunity to build your own Mario levels. In my experience, creative sorts of people often seem to be drawn towards video games and this is a fantastic opportunity for gamers to put those creative skills to use. You might think that that sounds more like a tool […]
Yoshi’s Woolly World is Yoshi’s first HD adventure and the opportunity was taken to make things very visually appealing. Obviously the characters in Yoshi games are not hugely realistic, so instead of aiming for realism with the HD graphics, they decided to try and make everything look like it’s made of wool. It looks wonderful. As with almost
This is the fifth (or sixth, depending on how you count Donkey Kong 64) game in the fantastic Donkey Kong Country series. You might feel uncomfortable about getting into a series this far in, but I have to say that this game seems to be an especially good jumping in point because it features most of the main
After a fourteen year gap, this game was the fourth in the Donkey Kong Country series. Unlike the first three games, this instalment was made by Retro Studios rather than Rare and so there are a few differences. On the whole things are the same though: it is still a side-scrolling game where you progress through levels
Nintendo Land was one of the first games released for the Wii U and seems to have been designed to show off what the system can do. Not only do I think it was a good way to demonstrate the Wii U’s capabilities, but I also think it’s a pretty good game in its own
I absolutely loved the first two Animal Crossing games and so it should be no surprise that I got myself pretty excited for the third game which was due for release on the Wii. I got the game and I enjoyed it, but, honestly, I have to say it was a bit of a disappointment. But does
This is the second Banjo-Kazooie game (here is a link to a review of the first). It takes place two years after the first and starts with Gruntilda’s sisters Mingella and Blobbelda coming along and using magic to rescue her from underneath the boulder she’d been trapped under since the ending of the last game. Gruntilda (now a
This game is the first in the excellent Banjo-Kazooie series, which is a spin-off for the character Banjo, from Diddy Kong Racing. The story starts with Banjo fast asleep in bed and his sister, Tooty, outside chatting with Bottles the Mole. Then, all of a sudden, Gruntilda the witch flies down, grabs Tooty and flies her back
Conker the Squirrel. He was the friend of Diddy Kong. His birthday was once ruined by the Evil Acorn. Nobody could ever have imagined the strange turn his life would take in Conker’s Bad Fur Day. Aesthetically, this game is just like a lot of other Rare platformers of the time. It looks like Donkey Kong 64 or Banjo-Kazooie and
The Donkey Kong Country series had provided some of the most popular games on the SNES and Diddy Kong was a large part of that series. As a result, Diddy was a popular character of his own and so he got his very own game in the form of Diddy Kong Racing, which acted as a kind of
