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Fifty Words by POWGI

Fifty Words by POWGI is a word search game by Lightwood Games. If you’ve read any of my previous reviews of their games, you’ll know that I’m a big fan! I especially love their word games. Sooner or later though, they have to have a bad word game right? Here’s my review of Fifty Words by POWGI! Fifty Words by POWGI is a word search game on par or perhaps better than previous efforts by Lightwood Games. I did not…

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Indie World Showcase – 8.19.2019 (Video)

Nintendo had their Indie World Showcase video today. You can check it out below and please come back for some thoughts from me about the showcase. The Indie World Showcase for 8.19.2019 was just ok. I suppose my expectations were too high. I think my expectations are always too high about all of these Directs, Indie or otherwise. So I was expecting some pretty big surprises and we didn’t get that. Ori and the Blind Forest wasn’t a big surprise…

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Wordsweeper by POWGI

By now, it should be no surprise to regular readers of GamesReviews.com that I enjoy Word games. I especially enjoy the Word games that Lightwood Games put out. And so when a new Word game by this wonderful developer comes out, I find that I must review it. Wordsweeper by POWGI is coming out this week! Is it another good game from Lightwood Games? Wordsweeper by POWGI is a hard game to explain. The in-game tutorial doesn’t do a good…

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Hagrid’s Hut: Buckbeaks Rescue

Thanks to our good friends at the LEGO Group, we had the chance to build and review one of the newest Harry Potter sets, Hagrid’s Hut: Buckbeacks Rescue, based on the third film in the Harry Potter franchise, The Prisoner of Azkaban. When it comes to movie sets being recreated in LEGO form, this is one of their finest works. But is it a worthwhile investment for 79.99 CAD? Let’s dive into the build! Set Name: Hagrid’s Hut: Buckbeaks Rescue…

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Concrete Genie Draws Its Way Onto the Playstation 4 in October

Are you looking for another exclusive Playstation 4 game to play soon? Then you should be keeping an eye on Concrete Genie! Sony announced today that the game is coming to the system in October! Concrete Genie will be out for the Playstation on October 8th, 2019. The graphics in this game look very good but its absolutely the gameplay that really blows my mind. In Concrete Genie you play as a street artist who draws things on walls and…

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Word Wheel by POWGI

Lightwood Games has a history of making cool word puzzle games. They’ve been doing some non-word puzzle games lately though. So when I heard they had a new Word game coming to the Switch, I got excited! Is Word Wheel by POWGI for the Nintendo Switch worth that excitement? Lets find out! Word Wheel by POWGI is the first new word puzzle game that Lightwood games has done in awhile. And you know what? They have not lost their groove…

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Warlock’s Tower

The Gameboy had some pretty cool puzzle games, such as Tetris, and it had some that have been forgotten. Warlock’s Tower feels like a game that could’ve been on the Gameboy, instead its on the Switch. Do I mean that in a good way or is Warlock’s Tower too much of a throwback? Here is my review of Warlock’s Tower for the Nintendo Switch. Warlock’s Tower seems like a really simple action puzzle game at first. Its graphics do not…

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More Thoughts From Me #171: My Horrible Nintendo E3 2019 Predictions

I don’t want any of the following predictions to actually happen. I would be very upset if they happened. So why am writing this? Why post horrible predictions like this? Because every year I try to predict Nintendo and I’m wrong. So this year, boy do I hope I’m wrong, but this could be Nintendo’s E3 2019… It is June 11th at 11am central time. Nintendo E3 2019 is about to start… The Switch logo appears. Nintendo shows off Nintendo…

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A Plague Tale feat

A Plague Tale: Innocence Review

Set in plague-ridden medieval France, A Plague Tale: Innocence aims to provide a heartrending journey of two siblings struggling to survive through the darkest hours of history. Coming from French developer Asobo, A Plague Tale: Innocence puts you in the middle of an ambitious battle against a whole host of foes. Chief among these is your own emotions, as you will be forced to make hard choices that leave you stunned into silence as the story plays out around you. Do you have what it takes to persevere against such terrible odds?

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Super Mario Maker 2 Building on the Original

As a huge fan of the original Mario Maker title on Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, I was incredibly excited when Nintendo announced that Mario Maker 2 would be heading to the Nintendo Switch this June. Despite my excitement, however, I also had a few questions I needed answering, most notably, "How much more can they really add to this experience?" Yesterday's Nintendo Direct answered that 10 times over, and then some! Let's dive in!

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