I know what at least a few of you are thinking right now:  you put more than 100 hours into  Octopath Traveler  and published numerous posts...

If you're anything like me, your first few meetings with the final boss of Black Bird 's "True" mode won't end in succ...

As my last post here hopefully makes clear, I like Onion Games' homage to Fantasy Zone , Black Bird , a whole heck of a lot. I like t...

When Onion Games announced earlier this year that its next release--after the pair of mobile curiosities known as  Dandy Dungeon and Milli...

I've got to be honest: my initial impressions of Space Dave  weren't great. You see, one of the things I liked most about this gam...

Truth be told, I've never been a fan of rail shooters. You know, the type of shmup--or shoot 'em up--where the ship or flying charac...

Before I became aware of games like Konami's Parodius Da! , I wasn't all that interested in the shoot 'em up (or shmup) genre. ...

There's just something about a Taito-made PC Engine instruction manual. And I'm not just talking about the colorful illustrations ...

It may surprise some of you to hear I only recently bought a copy of Hana Taaka Daka!? After all, this oddly titled game--which I believe ...

OK, so you'll need more than a Japanese 3DS system and a copy of  Sega 3D Fukkoku Archives 2 to take advantage of the "reason...

To be completely honest, this cute--and absurdly costly--PC Engine shoot 'em up wasn't even on my radar when I first considered whic...

On Friday, I published a post in which I shared my thoughts on six shoot 'em ups I've been playing as part of blogger Anne Lee ...