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Buffet Boss Review | TheXboxHub
A Bland Take On The Tycoon Genre Roblox calls them ‘Tycoon’ games, which seems as appropriate a name as any. You might have seen a growing number of them on the Xbox, and certainly on mobile and Roblox. They have you running around, standing on hotspots that represent an action – buying, selling, fixing or […]
Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered review
Recently, I’ve been trying to work through some issues I have with the way I approach playing & beating video games. For the longest time, I’ve felt like I need to make sure I see every possible piece of content in a playthrough of a game – and that drive to avoid missing anything often […]
Ayasa Shadows of Silence Review – A Broken, Frustrating Mess
Ayasa Shadows of Silence from Aya Games is a side-scrolling puzzle platform adventure game. It features a dark, creepy aesthetic, and from the trailers and visuals put out, it certainly looks interesting. However, looking interesting is not enough. Is the game actually good? I spent quite a bit of time with Ayasa Shadows of Silence, […]
Neon White Review
If you grew up reading gaming magazines in the 90s, you might be familiar with full-page advertisements claiming that a game would cause any variety of extreme maladies. Eyelids being ripped off your face, thumbs and palms becoming bloodied, and, in the most severe cases, full cranial explosions. After one of my many late nights […]
The Cursed Frog Review | TheXboxHub
A Character-Switching Platformer That Never Sits Still At the end of The Cursed Frog, I did what I normally do and checked the achievements. I like to scan the achievements I haven’t unlocked and see if the remainder are worth chasing. We had four left, including a couple that were related to being killed frequently […]
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord – War Sails Review
Taking the medieval sandbox simulation of Mount & Blade from the sprawling continent of Calradia to the high seas wasn’t the sort of pivot we had anticipated, but that’s exactly what Bannerlord’s first major expansion, War Sails, brings to Mount & Blade 2. In tandem with a new Nordic-inspired playable faction – the imaginatively named […]
Terminator 2D: No Fate Review
Terminator 2D: No Fate is as close to a retro experience as you’ll probably get in this current “old is new” trend. It’s such an oddity, pulling from an extremely specific time in its aesthetics and feel, while unfortunately falling into the trappings of the time. It’s as if the game has dropped right out […]
Pokémon Legends: Z-A review | VG247
The first thing I thought upon arriving in Lumiose City in Pokémon Legends: Z-A was, ‘Yes. This definitely looks like a modern Pokémon game.’ Bright colours, basic textures and oddly flat buildings. Seriously – realising that the balconies and window shutters lack any depth, instead being pasted onto the buildings like stickers, made my brain […]
Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope Review
For the first couple hours of Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, I anticipated a retread of my experience with the original game. “We gave Mario guns and put him in an XCOM” is a novel enough gimmick, but I found the battles and exploration in the first game too rote to keep my attention […]
Cassette Boy Review (Switch eShop)
Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) While it presents itself as a chilled-out ode to Legend of Zelda–style adventuring and the Game Boy aesthetic, Cassette Boy is more than meets the eye. It opens with an ominous dream in which your protagonist is told, “If it can’t be seen, it does not exist.” From there, the […]