🆒 Review: OlliOlli Switch Stance "If you’ve never played OlliOlli this feels like the ideal time to get involved" 🆒 #GameDev #IndieGame @Roll_7

Let me list off my extensive skateboarding video games points of reference so as I can frame this review for you a little better.

California Games (SMS) – Year Of Release: 1987

Tony Hawks 2 (PS1) – Year Of Release: 2000

🎮🧠 Can Gaming Give You These Life Skills? 🧠🎮

Image via Unsplash

Gaming is an adventure, a way to relax and to catch up with friends.

But have you ever stopped to think it could be teaching you valuable skills?

Yep, it turns out that all the times your parents yelled at you for spending hours hammering away at your controller in your games room, they might have been wrong about it being a waste of time - because you were actually developing a whole host of useful attributes.

Of course, there is no denying that there can be a dark side to excessive gaming - the media is rife with stories of addiction and anti-social behaviour -, but there's also an underreported good side.

🖳 Loading Screen Games 🖳 #Retrogaming

Who remembers a time when you would sit and wait for your computer games to load?

Anyone who owned a Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC or an Atari 800 will remember it very well!

🔎 Review: Observer 'A great way to spend a few ‘Hauers’ 🔎 @BlooberTeam @BrittRecluseuk #GameDev

Game Title: Observer

Developer: Bloober team

Platform Reviewed: PS4

Rating: Ice Cool

Everything is improved by adding Rutger Hauer, the movie veteran of classics such as Blade Runner (most applicable here), Salute of the Jugger, The Hitcher, Surviving the Game and dozens more besides (yes, even Armageddon with Mark Dacascos, a better film than the 1998 Michael Bay one) provides the physical basis and voices the protagonist of Observer, Daniel Lazarski.

A cop for the KPD (Krakow Police Department), his speciality is hacking into neural implants and ‘observing’ memories to piece together crime scenes. Set almost exclusively in a rundown tenement building in a dystopian Poland, Observer manages to convey a rich world full of dubious history in a relatively claustrophobic setting. Good.

🕹️ Games Room Tour 2019 - "Britt & Faye's Games Room(s)" 🕹️ @BrittRecluseuk @kingdomofcarts #Retrogaming

"Join Britt as he shows us around the awesome games room that he and Faye have built up. Keep your eyes open for some pure retrogaming gold in them there rooms!"

@BrittRecluseuk 🕹️

@kingdomofcarts 🕹️

🌵 Ten Minute Taster: Brawlout - PS4 "My First Go At A Platform Fighter Game!" 🌵 #Brawlout

🥕🥕🥕 Review: Ninjin: Clash Of Carrots "Surprisingly endearing carrot-based frolics" 🥕🥕🥕 #GameDev @NinjinClash

Ninjin: Clash of Carrots
Rating: Ice Cool

When I first received this game for review, I must admit that, from the trailer I assumed it was a tedious endless runner, possibly ported from mobile platforms and so I began to set up the rickety stool and noose, however, I was hugely surprised to see that the game offers far more depth and challenge than I initially expected.

🔴🔫 Review: Pang Adventures "We all make mistakes…mine was not playing this from the second it was released" 🔴🔫

Game Title – Pang Adventures

Developer – Dot Emu

Platform reviewed – Nintendo Switch

Rating – Ice Cool

I sat down to play Pang Adventures with my girlfriend, as it has always shone (as does everything) in local co-op.

After the first training round which probably lasted less than ten seconds, I turned to her and said, “I’m addicted to this”.

What followed were a couple of hours of us ploughing through the first 40 or so (out of 100) levels and I fully intend to carry on tonight, I love it.

🎮⛳️ Episode 9: World Masters Golf - 1995 - SNES - Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun 🎮⛳️ #Retrogaming #SNES

🎮⛳️ "This is a SNES mode 7 golfing extravaganza that is a load of fun to play, come watch me try and become a World Masters Golf Champion" 🎮⛳️

🤺 Review: Kenshi "Kenshi is an impressive feat and rich with depth" 🤺 #GameDev #IndieGame

Lo-Fi Games
Steam Link

A game made by one man over a twelve year period, Kenshi is an impressive feat and rich with depth, but not a game for those short on time or with no patience for a slow burn.

⛳️ Episode 8: True Golf Classics: Peeble Beach - 1992 - SNES "Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun!" ⛳️ #Retrogaming #SNES

⛳️"Standing on the Beach waiting for your buddy to play his next shot on the PAR 4 1st Hole, 

surely it doesn't get much better than that? 

Well, let's see how this SNES gem gets on as I take a trip around the first 3 holes of this Pebble Beach links course!"⛳️

⛺️🤠 Why I Love Red Dead Redemption 2 🤠⛺️ #RDR2

I awake in my bed and stare into the wilderness. My bed is adjacent to Flat Iron Lake in all its splendour.

As I sit on my bed I look across the Lake and think about what happened yesterday and what I’ll be doing today.

The first thing to focus on is picking up a few bales of hay and getting those horses fed.

Then I’ll head over to the wood pile and chop a few more logs.

After that, I’ll chat with a few people around the camp to see what they’re up to.

⚔️ Preview: Guard Duty "chunky pixelated hand-crafted artwork" ⚔️ #GameDev #GuardDuty

Guard Duty – Preview
Developer – Sick Chicken
Release date: Spring 2019 (PC – Steam)

A graphic-adventure game in the classic inventory-based puzzle vein, Guard Duty spans two time-zones and has a very British sense of humour about it.

👹 Review: Pikuniku "A beast that definitely isn’t a burden" 👹 #GameDev @PikuNikuGame @BrittRecluseuk

Game Title - Pikuniku

Platform Reviewed - PC (Steam)

Rating - Ice Cool

I really wasn’t sure what to expect with Pikuniku but after spending only a few minutes in the world of this charming puzzle-platformer, I couldn’t stop until I reached the end.

🎨 Review: GRIS (Nintendo Switch) - "A work of art" 🎨 #GameDev

I’m a massive fan of video games that don’t overcomplicate and that leave a lot of the story to a players imagination and interpretations.

🏌 Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun Episode 7: The Irem Major Title - SNES - 1990 🏌 #Retrogaming #Golf

🎮⛳️ "This golf game is perfect, it's by far the best SNES golf game I've ever played. Come join me for a few holes of IREM's finest" 🎮⛳️

🍻 🤠 Getting Drunk With Lenny & Arthur Morgan 🤠 🍻 #RDR2

🍻🤠"Lenny & Arthur have a drinking session at the Valentine Saloon!"🤠🍻

⛴️💣 Sunless Sea - Zubmariner Edition - PS4 - Ten Minute Taster ⛴️💣 #GameDev

⛴️💣"A murky set of waters are your playground as you scour fallen London in order to find adventure, fortune and Iceberg monsters on the Sunless Sea!"⛴️💣

⚔️👿📕 Review: Book Of Demons "A love letter to classic Hack & Slash games" 📕👿⚔️ #GameDev @ThingTrunk

Book of Demons

Return2Games/Thing Trunk

The ARPG genre is one that is filled to the brim with numerous titles to choose from, making standing out from the pack very, very difficult.

Book of Demons manages to feel different through its tight, streamlined gameplay and unique visual approach but it ultimately remained a game that I appreciated more than enjoyed.

⛳️ Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun - Episode 6: St Andrews - 1995 - SNES ⛳️ #Retrogaming

🎮⛳️"Tee Off has never been so tough! Watch me struggle to get further than 2 yards off the tee while I play this Japanese Golf Game based on St Andrews"🎮⛳️