It’s a video game tale as old as time, or at least since Harvest Moon rolled out onto the SNES back in the late 90’s. An estranged grandpa or uncle dies and you, the young up-and-comer, are tasked with taking it over and restoring it to its once great splendor. […]
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Part of being a Zelda fan is perpetually searching for a way to scratch that Zelda itch as you impatiently wait for Nintendo to release a shiny new entry in their illustrious franchise. Not to say that nothing will ever fill that void, but in all honesty great Zelda-likes are […]
There are few video game franchises that we’ll go out of our way to drop everything we’re currently doing, in order to play the latest and greatest release. Sorry, not sorry Alundra! Usually, it’s a combination of deep-seated nostalgia and burning curiosity to see what those crafty devs will do […]
In a world where we’ve become so reliant on technology, it’s difficult to imagine living our day to day lives without it! It’s what helps us wake up in the morning, makes sure we’re not late for a meeting, allows us to communicate with friends and family around the world, […]
Online entertainment is quite the prolific thing isn’t it? It’s something that many of us consume on a daily basis! It goes great with our morning coffee, when we’re on our lunch breaks, and even when we’re trying to figure out how to repair that dang leaky faucet! I mean, […]
Jumping into a new series that has been going strong for years, if not decades, can be an intimidating prospect, especially as those sequel numbers and subtitles rack up! I mean, there’s usually tons of history behind it, and many assumptions made by the writers that you have probably played […]
Patterns are nice aren’t they? They’re predictable, they’re comfortable, they’re learnable, and when you break that code, it’s the best feeling in the world. One genre of games that has always taken advantage of this fact is the shoot ’em up! I mean, the whole concept of a shoot ’em […]
If there is anything those crafty anthropomorphic horses from My Little Pony taught me, it’s that friendship really is magic. Even if you all have completely different personalities, working together towards a common goal always fares better than going it alone! In today’s game we follow a trio of displaced […]
It’s October which means horror movies, scary games and eating too much candy! That and it’s the best time of the year if you want our opinions on such things! So here in the Backlog Odyssey spooky brain trust, we thought to ourselves, we’re already having anxious bedtimes from the […]
I have probably said this hundreds of times by now, but I absolutely love how developers these days are truly embracing the retro aesthetics of yesteryear. On top of that, it seems like no other medium can replicate that authentic classic feeling quite like video games. I mean, under the […]