Review: Eastward

Review: Eastward

Author: Rich Meister

I only played the Mother games recently. I bounced about in the original Earthbound release when I was a kid. Still, it was a fan translation of Mother 3 that I got through totally legitimate means that moved me from a place of distanced appreciation to genuine respect for the quirky, charming series.

Eastward is a game that takes the best of Earthbound/Mother’s surreal and fun writing and combines it with the top-down action of traditional Zelda games for a nostalgia-packed adventure that carves out an incredible world that I won’t forget anytime soon.

What do you do to relax besides play video games?

What do you do to relax besides play video games?

Author: Ray Mcgill

I know this is a video game website, and I assume all of you come here for the podcasts, reviews, and articles about major game releases. While video games no doubt make up large parts of our lives, having at least a few hobbies is healthy and conducive to living a fun, good life. So I am here in front of you today to ask, besides video games, what other hobbies do you have? Something timeless like stamp collecting? Something more modern? I am writing this with an invitation for comments; I want to know your other-than-video game hobbies. To help jump-start the conversation, I'll share one of my hobbies that doesn’t involve a controller.

Review: SkateBIRD

Review: SkateBIRD

Author: Rich Meister

Skateboarding games are pretty great. As a kid growing up on Long Island, skate culture was rather prominent, and skating up through my high school years was almost as important as gaming. Outside of skateboarding (an activity that my knees no longer permit), The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series largely shaped my taste in music and pro skateboarders to admire.

Luckily those games are also fucking amazing and just as fantastic today. It is today’s unfortunate reality that skateboarding games are few and far between. For that reason, I gobble up pretty much any skating videogame that comes my way in the case of games like the Pro Skater remasters; that’s great. When it comes to games like SkateBIRD, you manage to get some fun over a package that’s more than a bit rough around the edges.

Review: Warioware: Get It Together

Review: Warioware: Get It Together

Author: Rich Meister

You’ve made it; it’s time since I came on and launched an editorial section for SwordChomp we knew the legendary day would arrive. It’s time to review a Wario Game! Warioware is an insane series and probably one of the most objectively strange and entertaining things that Nintendo has ever done, and I’ve been head over heels for it since way back in the GBA era.

Warioware: Get It Together is Intelligent System’s latest foray into the world of Wario and the Diamond City crew of weirdos that all hang out together for some reason. Get It Together hits some of the micro game-highs of the series past but struggles in the spots it tries to change, namely in being a cooperative experience and offering an interesting choice of character options to play around with.

Review: F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch

Review: F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch

Author: Rich Meister

Torch City is a shell of its former self. This Dieselpunk monstrosity of a city was once teeming with plant life, and life was good for Furtizens like Rayton, the rabbit until he and his companions lost the war to the evil iron dogs.

F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch is the story of Rayton and one of redemption for a former hero. After losing a six-year battle against the mechanical legion and its Iron, Dogs Rayton is forced back into the fight when an old ally is put in harm’s way in this surprisingly engaging Metroidvania action platformer