This year has been a sort of renaissance for the character-based platformer. It warms my heart to be playing so many whimsical games featuring cartoony characters and plenty of jumping puzzles. While some of these games failed to capitalize on what makes [...]
Where Yooka-Laylee attempted to revive Rare’s Banjo-Kazooie formula, A Hat in Time[official site] strikes at a different vein of nostalgia. The 3D platformer attempts to split the difference between the open-ended adventuring of Super Mario 64 and the [...]
Some days, it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed. Diminutive spacefarer Hat Kid was on her way home, her cushy wood-paneled and pillow-filled spacecraft stocked with fuel. It was all going so well—until a burly Mafioso came floating through the void, [...]
