Super Mario Sunshine (GameCube)
While Mario is often the platform game trendsetter, establishing how a platforming character should control in both 2D and 3D
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The Game Hoard
Playing Every Video Game Ever Released And Reviewing Them Along The Way
Game Series
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Wii)
While it’s easy to identify similarities between games in the Crystal Chronicles subseries of Final Fantasy games, the wide breadth
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Gears of War: Judgment (Xbox 360)
After Gears of War 3 rather definitively wrapped up the war against the mutated humanoid monsters known as the Locust,
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Bomberman (NES)
While I had a pretty low opinion of the Bomberman series before starting The Game Hoard, again and again I’ve
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Gears of War 3 (Xbox 360)
The incredible Gears of War 2 is a tough act to follow, but when it came time to wrap up
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Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda (Switch)
Crypt of the NecroDancer took rogue-like mechanics, dungeon-crawling, and rhythm based gameplay and rolled them all into one experience where
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Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360)
The first Gears of War won plenty of awards, sold like mad, and helped kick off the cover shooter craze
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Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (Xbox One)
When the original Gears of War hit the Xbox 360, it ushered in a new era of shooting games. Winning
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Mega Bomberman (Genesis/Mega Drive)
In discussions of which Bomberman game is best, Bomberman ’94 tends to place rather highly, the Japanese only game never
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Cooking Mama: Cookstar (Switch)
On the surface, Cooking Mama: Cookstar seems like it’s just the latest installment in the colorful and accessible cooking sim
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Yakuza Kiwami (PS4)
Back when the Yakuza series began on the PlayStation 2 it only really seemed to achieve niche success, just enough
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Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (Switch)
Not since Pokémon’s introduction back at the tail end of the 1990s did the series see such widespread popularity as
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Pac ‘n Roll (DS)
After Pac-Pix made use of Pac-Man’s iconic 2D shape for a DS game all about drawing him, Namco decided to
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Harry Potter for Kinect (Xbox 360)
The Harry Potter universe is certainly one of the more popular franchises for fans to imagine themselves in. Seven school
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Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (SNES)
Back before Paper Mario, back before Mario & Luigi, the portly platforming plumber known as Mario took his first foray
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Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (SNES)
While it might not be as prevalent now thanks to digital distribution and steep sales, there was a time where
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Bubble Bobble (Arcade)
In Bubble Bobble, two young boys named Bubby and Bobby have their very similar looking girlfriends kidnapped and taken deep
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The Haunted Hoard: Splatterhouse (Xbox 360)
During the era of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, many classic video game series were receiving gritty reboots. The
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The Haunted Hoard: Splatterhouse (Arcade)
Splatterhouse was one of the first horror-themed games to hit the arcade, but despite the gory deaths of its monsters
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The Haunted Hoard: Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Switch)
The original Luigi’s Mansion thrust Mario’s cowardly younger brother into the spotlight, Luigi working his way through an atmospheric mansion
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The Haunted Hoard: Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Xbox 360)
For many years, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis had hoped to create a third movie in the Ghostbusters film franchise,
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