Every year we all pick a pumpkin and watch some spooky movies, but most importantly, we all continue to play a specific game.
Happy birthday, SOTN! We’re back to close off our very short Metroidvania season with what we both believe to be the superior of the ‘progenitor’ titles...
A good twist plays on an audience’s expectations in order to contextualize something. More often than not, that “something” is the story. Books and movies use...
One of gaming's greatest twists...
Top 5 Castlevania Games Vampires, bats, whips, spells, castles…what’s the first thing that comes to mind when hearing these words? Elder Scrolls maybe? Twilight perhaps? Of...
This week on the NXpress Nintendo Podcast, Cameron Daxon, Marc Kaliroff, and Campbell Gill tackle one of life’s biggest questions – just what is a metroidvania, really? Before getting to that, though,...
Gaming has changed a lot in the last 30 years. From pixels to polygons, from barely workable 3D to incredibly complex gaming worlds, and from 16-bit...
Whether through sheer intensity or emotional effect, great moments in gaming live on in our minds long after we first experience them.
One might be right to be hesitant about Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The term ‘spiritual successor’ is one that often leaves me a skeptic. How...
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one of the most well-respected and critically-lauded action-RPGs of all time. Castlevania: Rondo of Blood is similarly held up as a series high...
