It’s an accessible game with easy-to-understand rules, but it will regularly surprise you. It is also consistently charming, as Captain Toad (and Toadette) light up the screen with beaming smiles and chirps of success as they hunt down golden treasures. Treasure Tracker is a puzzle-adventure game that’s relaxing at times and confounding at others, thanks to Nintendo’s smart, sometimes devilish level designs. Now available on Switch, one of Nintendo’s most underappreciated projects is getting the audience it deserves. Unfortunately, it too was doomed on the Wii U. Nintendo later expanded that idea into a full game, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. They were wonderful little puzzle boxes in which players guided the waddling Toad through diorama-like levels to collect stars. When Nintendo released Super Mario 3D World on Wii U - you know, the console that barely anybody owned - the game maker included a handful of experimental levels starring perennial Mario sidekick Toad.
Here’s Cameron Kunzelman’s take from our review: “There’s not a wasted breath or a plot point that doesn’t manage to pay off in a significant way. A fairytale storyline gives its motley band of heroes a playful pep that feels anachronistic, if not flagrantly in conflict with our times. Its colorful animation conceals a rich but not overly complicated kingdom-management system that gives the adventure a grand sense of scope.
No, you needn’t have played the first Ni no Kuni to enjoy its sequel, a feverishly optimistic (and welcomingly naïve) Japanese role-playing game inspired, in part, by the works of Studio Ghibli. Not only is it truly frightening - it’s also unique, clever, and hauntingly beautiful.Level-5/Bandai Namco 50. Pulling from a mix of real-world Taiwanese history and mythology, and effortlessly nailing the heavy, atmospheric terror of classic survival horror games, Detention is an absolute gem. In Early Access for three full years before its official launch in August, Darkwood asks players to scavenge for supplies by day and endure the dangers of the dark wilderness by night. In a genre oversaturated with crafting-heavy survival mash-ups, Darkwood shines. Set partially in an abandoned animator’s workshop, the episodic series (which has yet to conclude) promises to “forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.” Bendy and the Ink Machine (PC, Mac, Linux)Ĭuphead got all the love this year for its painstaking recreation of old-timey animation, but Bendy and the Ink Machine also put a new spin on vintage cartoons.
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