Game Reviews7.7/10
Uniracers turns a stunt racer into a game about momentum
Uniracers, DMA Design's riderless-unicycle racer for the SNES, turned stunts into speed. A lawsuit ended production, and it never came back.
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Tag: Super Nintendo
Game Reviews8.2/10
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals Review: A Prequel That Earns Its Place
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals review — the SNES prequel that removed random dungeon encounters, added IP Skills and Capsule Monsters, and still holds up.
Game Reviews6.5/10
Breath of Fire II arrived in 1994 as the second entry in Capcom’s role-playing series, a direct sequel set 500 years after the first game.
Breath of Fire II review: Capcom's 1994 Super Nintendo follow-up with nine playable characters, town building, and dragon powers. Ambitious but uneven. 6.5/10.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Blackthorne Review: A Shotgun That Fires Backwards
Blackthorne, Blizzard's 1994 shotgun platformer, reviewed: cover-based gunfights, Jim Lee art, the 32X snowy mountains, and a 7.8/10 verdict.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Illusion of Gaia: Quintet’s Strange, Spare SNES RPG Holds Up
Illusion of Gaia, Quintet's 1993 SNES action RPG, sends Will through Incan ruins and Angkor Wat to stop a comet — a strange, spare classic that still holds up.
Game Reviews7.6/10
ActRaiser 2: A Winged God, a Battering Ram, and a Score of 7.6
ActRaiser 2 dropped the city-building sim for pure platforming. A review of Quintet's harder, stranger 1993 SNES sequel about a winged god with a sword.
Game Reviews8.6/10
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest Review — Rare Sidelined Its Mascot and Won
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995) sidelined its own mascot and let Diddy and Dixie carry Rare's Super Nintendo sequel to 8.6/10.