Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story Review
Bowser’s Inside Story is the third Mario & Luigi RPG game, and as a newcomer to the series, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I associate Mario with jumping on enemies, super mushrooms and saving the Mushroom Kingdom. Fortunately for purists, that’s all here and more.
Bowser’s Inside Story is charmingly simple, witty and inventive, and is one of the best and most accessible RPGs I’ve played recently. Both Bowser (a surprising protagonist) and Fawful (the antagonist) are hilarious, and the light RPG elements and timing based gameplay are a refreshing change from standard Japanese RPG fare. You can’t go wrong with Bowser’s Inside Story (apart from the dubious name). read more
Scribblenauts ‘Review’: Can a Game be too Ambitious?
Scribblenauts was one of my most anticipated games this year. Every time I heard about it, my mind wildly devised increasingly Rube Goldberg-esque solutions to imagined problems. Unfortunately, Scribblenauts is not at all the game I was expecting, and in reality it falls massively short of its admittedly brilliant concept.
I must admit that this won’t technically be a review. While I will get into what Scribblenauts did right and wrong, I will do so briefly as I did not complete the game and technically don’t want to review a game when I haven’t seen all the content.
For reference, I completed the first half of both the puzzle and action worlds and so this article is relevant only to that content. Maybe the game radically changes at the halfway mark. Somehow I doubt that’s the case.