Review: Garden Story
Garden Story is an indie adventure game developed by Picogram and published by Rose City Games. Twitter’s algorithm is why I know this game, which is the discovery story for most indie games reviewed on Level Editors. I wish I…
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Review: Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet
It’s not unusual for old video game franchises to reinvent themselves. With releases like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild taking on an open-world gameplay style that is in stark contrast to its 1980s predecessor, or the Sonic…
Detective Grimoire: From Scruffy Beards to Charmed
Detective Grimoire is one of my favorite childhood flash games, I found out years later it became a series.
Review: Yo-kai Watch
Yo-kai Watch is a Level-5 franchise with a cult following in Japan but modest success in the US. My discovery of the franchise began at a Walmart in 2014. Yo-kai Watch, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, and…
How I Recovered from the End of Flash Games with Itch.io
My middle school years of online activity consisted of websites like Addicting Games and GamesForGirls (this site refuses to load). My online history contained hours of playing flash games; the game categories I frequented were cooking or point-and-click. A vast…
Review: Shin Hayarigami – Blindman
CONTENT WARNING: Brief description of body horror, minor story spoilers. Urban legend: Shin Hayarigami – Blindman is the first installment of the detective visual novel series Shin Hayarigami by Nippon Ichi Studio. It was originally released on the PS3 and…