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6Apr

By Olivia HoultonNo Comments

Have A Nice Death – Switch Review

Located in Montpellier, France, Magic Design Studios brings a darkly-charming, hand-drawn, 2-D action rogue like game Have A Nice Death. Have A Nice Death is available to buy now on PC and Switch for £21.99. Will you join Death Inc? You assume the role of Death, the founder and CEO of Death Incorporated. Death is in the midst of burnout due to his workers going rogue. They have taken it upon themselves to break company policy and it is your job to get the employees back in line. You must do this by showing them who is the boss. Gameplay In order to gain control, Death must plough its way through 7 departments. These departments are full of workers ready to make a stand, happily attacking Death to prove this. Each department has a department head, who you must beat to continue to t...

5Apr

By Olivia HoultonNo Comments

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Sushi Bar Express – Switch Review

I was fortunate to look at Sushi Bar Express, a new simulation game that is sure to make you want to quit your career and become a sushi chef. Sushi Bar Express is brought to you by Funbox media, a well-established publishing company that has brought you the likes of Bibi & Tina: New Adventures with horses, and quirky games like Pretty Girls Games Collection 3. You can grab Sushi Bar Express for £24.99 on the Switch store. Are you a Cooking Mama fan looking for a new challenge? Being quite a big Cooking Mama fan, I was extremely excited to find out that a similar game was being released that focused completely on sushi. Although I myself do not like sushi, I was pleasantly surprised. If you are a fan of these types of simulation games, let me know below if you are excited t...

14Mar

By VinnoNo Comments

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Meg’s Monster – Switch Review

Coming to us from Japanese developer Odencat is a JRPG with a twist. Meg's Monster will pull at your heartstrings and make you ask, who is the real monster? Meg's Monster is available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One. Today we'll be looking at the Switch version, which comes in at £12.79/$14.99 Not All Heroes Wear Capes, Some Are Huge Indestructible Monsters Named Roy. Meg's Monster centres around a little girl named Meg, who falls into the Underworld, a place filled with monsters. While the premise may sound similar to Undertale, Meg's Monster offers a fresh take on the formula, with unique gameplay mechanics and a heartwarming storyline. The game starts with Meg stumbling upon two monsters, Golan and Roy. Golan, initially planning to eat Meg, realises t...

Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe – Switch Review

10Mar

By Mathew JanesNo Comments

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Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe – Switch Review

He's pink, he's round, and he has an appetite for anything. That's right Kirby's back for another addition to the already adorable and enjoyable franchise some of us will remember from childhood. Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe is a platformer game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is an enhanced remake of the original 2011 Wii game Kirby's Return to Dream Land. Kirby's return is the dream we wanted to land on Switch Have you been excited to get your hands on this? Did you play the original on the Nintendo Wii? let us know in the comments! Gameplay Kirby's Return to DreamLand Deluxe may be a remake which can be a grey area for some gamers. This may be why you are reading this now. Is it any good? Does it capture that historic enjoymen...

Metroid Prime Remastered – Switch Review

10Mar

By Oliver RevoltaNo Comments

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Metroid Prime Remastered – Switch Review

If you’ve never played a game in the Metroid Prime series, it’s likely that your preconceived ideas are wrong. Screenshots suggest a trio of pretty-standard first person shooters, but these games are—true to the design of the wider Metroid series as a whole—metroidvanias through and through, though rendered in a first-person 3D style. They feature the same emphasis on map-reading and exploration and almost identical platforming and action, down to the pacing of the encounters with enemies and the giant bosses. On its original release back in 2003, Metroid Prime was hailed as a masterpiece. And the game was impressive—I remember it vividly—there was something powerful in its all-encompassing atmosphere, and how via a hundred artful details and design choices it made you feel part of ...

24Feb

By Rowen Cameron1 Comment

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Clive ‘N’ Wrench – Switch Review

There are few gaming genres more nostalgic and fondly remembered than 3D platformers. Games like Banjo-Kazooie, Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank were hits with the popular hero/sidekick or dynamic duo formula. For the majority of gamers born pre-2000, these were a huge part of their virtual journeys. And like a cosy comfort blanket, they hold warm memories begging to be revisited. Clive ‘N’ Wrench from Dinosaur Bytes Studio, published by Numskull Games, looks to resurrect those fuzzy platforming memories. And in many ways, indeed it does. But it also revives some memories of 3D platforming that we’d rather forget. In an anthropomorphic animated world, the tyrannical Dr Daucus looks to conquer space and time. To facilitate this, he has stolen Professor Nancy Merricarp’s time trav...

16Feb

By Olivia HoultonNo Comments

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Donut Dodo – Switch Review

Donut Dodo is another excellent addition to the revitalising of 2D platformer's that those who grew up in the 80s were accustomed to. Being a relatively new company that was founded in 2020, Pixel Games already has an impressive resume of 2D arcade adventure games, that focuses on "creating classic, pick up and play, pixel art games for modern consoles." Donut Dodo is available now to buy on steam and switch. Defeat the evil dodo and reclaim your donuts! Donut Dodo is not a game I would typically play, that being because I am unfortunately a millennial, and I did not grow up surrounded by the summers filled of playing on the arcade machines, however, I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by this game. Gameplay You play as the baker Billy Burns, who has to outwit the evil Dodo and his ...

14Feb

By Dan2 Comments

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Sport & Fun: Swimming – Switch Review

Published by Red Deer Games Sport & Fun: Swimming is one of the latest family fun fitness titles to hit the Nintendo Switch eShop. Released on the 3rd of February and is currently on sale at a massive 90% at the time of writing this article. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming! So join me as I jump into the swim lanes to see if Sport & Fun: Swimming sinks or swims. Let's hope it is the latter. Gameplay I honestly had no idea what to expect when it came to Sport & Fun: Swimming. It was safe to say I was going in blind. I had not seen anything surrounding this title, whether that be via email campaigns or by the press sites. I have no idea if this is because I didn't go looking for it, or because it just hasn't been talked about. Sport & Fun: Swimming is an easy...

13Feb

By Oliver RevoltaNo Comments

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Fire Emblem Engage – Switch Review

One of the great benefits of writing reviews for Thumb Culture is the variety of games I've been exposed to that I might never have played otherwise. I've been able to loosen up when it comes to my game choices—and the many fantastic experiences I've had have convinced me that the Switch's library is in very good health. Next up is Fire Emblem, a series that’s been on my radar for a long time—I'm a fan of turn-based combat, and I know these games have a lot of devotees—so I launched myself enthusiastically into the review for the latest release, Fire Emblem Engage. Rarely have I played a game as difficult to review. Engage has been constructed in two entwined but very different halves—both of which are stuffed with intricate gameplay and upgrade systems. As a noob—and this is clearly ...

31Jan

By Oliver RevoltaNo Comments

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NEScape! – Switch Review

Some people are going to look at NEScape! and write it off without thinking—but I’m here to tell you otherwise. This under-the-radar indie is worth your time, and is perhaps one of the more obvious candidates for the hallowed title of ‘hidden gem.’ NEScape! is a fully-realised escape room—a modern phenomenon—intriguingly brought to life in a 1980s-style 8-bit aesthetic. And it works so well that it’s easy to imagine it as one of the actual classic games of the NES library. THE DEFINITIVE 8-BIT ESCAPE ROOM EXPERIENCE At the start of the game you’re placed in a dark room. You find the right pixel to turn on the light switch then have an hour to complete the puzzles and escape through the locked door. To do so you cycle between four screens—the four walls of the room—and interact with the d...