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Full video game reviews: (newest first)

• The Hundred Line - Last Defense Academy - Recommended - From the twisted mind behind Rain Code and Danganronpa comes a VN of unrivaled ambition and scope.
• Guns of Fury - Recommended^{(Game of the Year)} - From out of nowhere comes the best, and manliest, Metroidvania in years
• Mad Rat Dead - Recommended - A rhythm game mixed with a platformer bringing style, soul, creativity and (literally) heart all in great quantities.
• Granblue Fantasy: Relink - Recommended^{(Game of the Year)} - If only every gachatrash turned into a real game with as much aplomb as Relink did.
• Bakeru - Recommended^{(Game of the Year)} - The guys who made Kirby's Epic Yarn make their own 3D platforming making Japan as charming as any Kirby game ever was.
• Card-en-Ciel - Recommended^{(Game of the Year)} - Inti Creates plays Smash Bros with their franchises, but as a roguelite card battler.
• Master Detective Archives: Rain Code - Recommended^{(Game of the Year)} - The Danganronpa guy makes a detective story this time, laying off the meta nonsense, and absolutely NAILS it.
• Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane - Recommended - An OEL VN borrowing from the Ace Attorney franchise that is actually surprisingly good.
• Grim Guardians: Demon Purge - Recommended - Inti Creates makes another Castlevania game with the perfect IP for it: Galgun!
• Pizza Tower - Recommended^{(Game of the Year)} - Somehow both the best Wario Land game and the best Sonic game
• Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls - Recommended - Danganronpa takes a side trip to make an RE4 game with a truly terribly dumb story even by DR standards
• Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate - Recommended - The OG Japanese style roguelike dungeon crawler that all others copied continues.
• Intravenous - Recommended - Top down Splinter Cell but with a bit more murder (optional... mostly) against drug dealers.
• Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge - Recommended - Without Cookieface, Team Ninja needs a second try to make a game almost as good as a normal NG game.
• Pac Man 256 - Recommended - Pac Man meets an endless runner mobile game, but wait, it is ACTUALLY GOOD!
• Akiba's Trip 1: Hellbound and Debriefed - Recommended - Acquire's original action RPG about ripping clothes off in Akihabara gets a remake and a translation.
• Sisters Royale - Recommended - Alfasystem returns to making shmups with a new Castle Shikigami game in all but name
• Mayhem Brawler - Recommended - A comic book style beat-em-up that manages to be one of the best indie beat-em-ups in recent memory outside of the greats like Fight n Rage.
• Dynasty Warriors 9: Empires - Recommended(Conditionally) - Koei attempts to redeem DW9... or at least milk some more cash out of it, but by being less ambitious they actually make something a bit better this time.
• Dead Estate - Recommended - Roguelite shooter with a witch with big tiddies coming to you straight out of Newgrounds. Not the best but still good fun.
• Luminous Avenger iX 2 - Not Recommended - Inti Creates continues to fumble around with the Gunvolt formula in an almost shameful manner.
• Fight Knight - Recommended(Conditionally) - A spirited and lovingly crafted dungeon puzzler married to Punchout on crack.
• TMNT Shredder's Revenge - Not Recommended - The turtles are back in a beat-em-up that is only slightly better than your hazy memories of mashing buttons as a kid.
• Final Vendetta - Recommended - SNK tier sprites attached to an indie beat-em-up good enough to earn them.
• The House of the Dead Remake - Recommended - The OG lightgun game gets the most loving remaster possible.
• Conquest of Elysium 5 - Recommended - A 4X game with roguelike random craziness that manages to be both coffee break and beer and pretzels but with little strategy.
• Vengeful Guardian Moonrider - Recommended - Retro homage to Shinobi meets Mega Man X that does right by both.
• Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada - Recommended - Samurai Warriors 4 gets a Sanada focused sendoff to be both a great musou and a great musou story.
• Castlevania Advance Collection - Recommended - Handheld metroidvania classics.
• Lost Dimension - Recommended - Japanese SRPG heavy on skill trees and action and light on story and downtime.
• ZeroRanger - Recommended - Indie shmup light on the colors and heavy on the action.
• Assault Spy - Recommended^{(Game of the Year)} - Japanese indie dev comes out of nowhere with a total masterpiece to remind Platinum and Capcom what stylish action truly SHOULD be.
• Metallic Child - Not Recommended - Cute and funny robot action roguelite brought to you by Korean indie devs.
• Actraiser Renaissance - Recommended(Conditionally) - The original god-sim mixed with action platformer returns blending a THIRD genre into this hotpot.
• Oneechanbara Origin - Recommended - Hack and slash zombie slayer reaching for the character action stars
• Spark the Electric Jester - Recommended - Sonic fangame designer makes his own commercial game, 2D Sonic meets Kirby
• Spark the Electric Jester 3 - Recommended - Same Sonic fangame designer makes the best 3D Boost Sonic game in years
• Kamiwaza - Way of the Thief - Recommended(Conditionally) - Way of the Samurai devs make an action burglary stealth mishmash
• Cyber Shadow - Recommended - Classic NES style Ninja Gaiden with graphics to match
• Melty Blood Type Lumina - Not Recommended - A mistake
• Battle Brothers - Recommended - Strategy RPG about losing men and rebuilding from scratch constantly with Sid Meier's Pirates/Mount and Blade sandbox play in its DNA
• Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War - Not Recommended - Musou devs trying their hand at movie style medieval war combat
• Cogmind - Not Recommended - Classic style roguelike about a robot attaching parts to himself
• Touhou Genso Wanderer Reloaded - Not Recommended - Touhou meets Mystery Dungeon
• Jupiter Hell - Not Recommended - Classic style roguelike DoomRL follow-up, lots of guns, more demons
• River City Saga: Three Kingdoms - Recommended - Kunio and the gang beat each other up again only this time it is set in Romance of the Three Kingdoms China.
• Samurai Bringer - Recommended - Bizarre mix of action roguelite, Warriors Orochi endless mode type play, and God Hand style moveset building
• Gunvolt 3 - Recommended - Inti Creates makes another score attack Mega Man-alike only this one is about zipping from enemy to enemy and never touching the ground.
• Super Bullet Break - Not Recommended - Deckbuilding roguelike heavy on cute anime girls and light on gameplay
• Warriors All Stars - Recommended - Musou crosses over with a half dozen different Koei-Tecmo IPs to battle furries

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