Game Reviews7.2/10
Why Zelda’s Strangest Sequel Traded Exploration for Side-Scrolling Difficulty
A sequel that trades wide lands seen from above for sword fights seen from the side, points, and hard palaces of trial.
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Category: Game Reviews
Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Zanac’s adaptive difficulty reads your play and pushes back — a 7.5 for the NES original
A ship that reads the player and answers in kind — Zanac's shooting demands care, patience, and swift instinct upon the NES.
Game Reviews7.2/10
Willow on the NES: A Film Adaptation With Real Depth
Willow brings the film's hero, sword, and spell to the NES, a tale of fighting, searching, and power won through trial.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Vice: Project Doom Review: Three Games in One Cartridge, and Most of It Works
A tale of an old cartridge whose agent Hastings wars against a criminal band, mixing action, shooting, driving, and fighting stages in one grim work.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Turtles III on the NES: Fair Fights and a Two-Player Mode Earn a 7.7
Four turtles, one long fight: this tale mends the terror of the former game, and two companions make the toil a pleasure.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Turtles II on NES Trades Four Players for a Harder, Longer Fight — 7.5/10
A tale of turtles four made two, upon a console home, yet harder still the fight, and worthy of the telling.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Sweet Home at 35: Capcom’s NES Horror Still Earns Its 7.7
A dread old house, five souls, one strange item each — Sweet Home, the NES horror that opened a genre's door, 35 years old.
Game Reviews6.1/10
Snake’s Revenge on NES Trades Quiet Play for Open Fighting — and Lands at 6.1
A tale of a game that came after Metal Gear, made without its first maker, trading quiet dread for open fighting.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Shadowgate on the NES Kills Often and Rewards Slow Thinking
A castle, a dying flame, and evil that must not wake. Shadowgate's grim rooms reward patience and punish haste alike.
Game Reviews6.2/10
Power Blade Throws One Returning Boomerang Across Eight Uneven Stages
Power Blade, a 1991 NES game of blade and city, weighed for its worth: a single instrument, borne through stages of unequal strength.