Penny’s Big Breakaway is the first game to come to us from Evening Star, a team created by the developers of Sonic Mania. Despite the success of the team’s previous works, Penny’s Big Breakaway did not perform well financially, and the team had to cut its staff. While we don’t know for sure why Penny’s …
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Considering my love of 3D platformers and collectathons, it was inevitable that I would check Donkey Kong 64 out at some point. While Donkey Kong Bananza is set for release next month for the Switch 2, I felt now would be a good time to finally check out Nintendo’s previous 3D outing for our favorite …
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It’s not often that I play a game so dull and mediocre that thinking about it makes me nauseous. I can’t exactly say that Skator Gator 3D is one of the worst games I played, but I don’t like thinking about it. It gets under my skin in an odd way that objectively worse games …
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If I had a nickel for every retro throwback 3D platformer that was based around time travel, that made my most anticipated games of 2023 list, and ended up mediocre and disappointing, I’d have two nickels. I don’t know why someone would give me two nickles for two games existing though, it’s not like I …
So, I like 3D collectathon platformers a lot, and this was number nine on my most anticipated games of 2023 list. It did not live up to the hype. Reading some parts of that piece are especially painful after having played through this game all the way. “It DOES look like it nails everything there …
