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Mini Review Contra: Operation Galuga (PS5) - Run-'n'-Gun Series Back to Its Best
Bill Rizes to the occasion
It's weird that Konami has taken this long to ship Contra: Operation Galuga, which is the classic Contra game fans have been asking for. After the damp turd that was 2019's Contra: Rogue Corps, the publisher handed the reins back to WayForward, the team behind 2008's Contra 4. Turns out that's all that was needed to get a...
Review River City Girls - Retro Brawling With a Twist
Girls about town
Dishing out knuckle sandwiches as either Kyoko or Misako in couch co-op brawler River City Girls is immediately fun, with the combat comparing favourable to the genre favourites of yesteryear. As tends to be the case with this sort of title however, fighting the ever growing hordes of enemies on your quest to rescue the duo’s...
Review Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (PS4)
I whip my hair back and forth
The Shantae series is an odd one, isn't it? It's been around for quite some time, but never made a huge impact. The Metroidvania style gameplay and quirky writing are adored by fans, but despite being quietly very good, the games remain ignored by most. Funnily enough, you can play three of the four titles right now on...
Review Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (PS4)
It's y'arrrrrrrrlright
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is a 2D side-scroller in the classic Metroidvania vein, but with a whimsical story and an anarchic sense of humour that helps separate it from the pack. Taking on the role of a half-genie named Shantae, you'll spend approximately ten hours exploring various islands, solving puzzles in dungeons,...
Review Goosebumps: The Game (PS4)
Say cheese and die
The title screen for Goosebumps: The Game issues a warning to players in a cute nod to R.L. Stine's corny but effective "reader beware" slogan – but there's more than just Monster Blood to fear here. Novels like It Came from Beneath the Sink and Stay Out of the Basement were enormous in the early to mid-90s, and this author...
Review Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut (PS4)
Risky business
Shantae: Risky's Revenge – Director's Cut is a PlayStation 4 port of the 2010 Metroidvania game by WayForward Technologies. Originally released on the Nintendo DSi, the title belly danced to the PC this time last year, and now it's finally the turn of Sony format fans to get their hands on the release. This is actually the second...
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Friday2nd Sep 2022
News Meet The Colourful Cast of Villains In-Line for a Butt-Kicking in River City Girls 2
Double dragoness
In a new trailer for River City Girls 2, we learn about some of the villains who will oppose our heroines and their motivations. The bodacious brawler was recently delayed and is expected to launch "sometime after" its originally planned Summer 2022 release window. We get to meet Sabuko, the disgraced daughter, Ken, the rich boy...
Thursday11th Aug 2022
News River City Girls 2 Has Been Delayed, Pulling Its Punches Until 'Sometime After' Summer 2022
Bummer, dude
River City Girls 2, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the excellent River City Girls, has been delayed. Originally slated to launch in Late Summer 2022, the bodacious brawler is now not expected until "sometime after" that window. The next instalment in the long-running Kunio-Kun franchise (which began all the way back in 1986), the...
Saturday2nd Jul 2022
News RWBY: Arrowfell Is a Stylish Metroidvania Set in the Popular RWBY Universe
Team RWBY is back
RWBY: Arrowfell is an upcoming action-adventure title from developer Wayforward that tells an in-continuity story of the popular RWBY franchise from Rooster Teeth. The events of Arrowfell will be set in WRBY: Volume 7, and the show's writers intentionally left a time skip in the story so that the game is entirely canon. RWBY...
Wednesday18th Jul 2012
News PSN Gets Double Dragon Neon on 11th September
Blood brothers
Get ready to brawl — Double Dragon Neon is coming to the North American PlayStation Network on 11th September. It'll cost $9.99. WayForward's series revival hurls twin brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee into an adventure to recover their mutual love interest Marian. The siblings will still be fighting over 2D planes, but the world they...
Monday23rd Apr 2012
Preview Double Dragon Neon (PSN)
Blast from the past or best left unearthed?
If anyone stands a chance at a Double Dragon revival, the 2D maestros over at WayForward are the most likely to pull it off in a convincing way. Between beloved revivals of Contra and A Boy and His Blob under their belt, new takes on BloodRayne and Batman and side-scrolling classics like






















