Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate (Switch) – Hades In A Half-Shell

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) From the outside, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate looks a lot like Hades. The room-based gameplay, upgrade and power-up systems, approach to storytelling, and hack-and-slash combat will be no strangers to those who’ve played the award-winning godlike roguelike. But that’s no bad thing. Imitation is, after all, the sincerest … Read more

TMNT: Splintered Fate Dev Talks Making a Radical Roguelike and How Hades “Opened Our Eyes”

Nintendo Life: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have appeared in many games over the years, but never in a roguelike. Why did you decide to move the Turtles into this genre? Tom Westall, Super Evil Megacorp: Our mission at Super Evil Megacorp is to create the best shared gaming moments in the world. We played … Read more

Besiege: The Splintered Sea review: a small ship for extended sea travel

I can’t compare my experience writing a review for The Splintered Sea, the first paid expansion for the dastardly clever physics puzzle builder Besiege, to that of a journalist keeping a diary facing deadly storms on the horizon. But if we take for granted the idea that a review is only really valuable as an insight into the player’s experience, I haven’t felt particularly good this week. That in mind: Splintered Sea is more Besiege, carefully applied to the already extensive toolkit. More importantly, it’s currently bringing me deep and much-needed moments of untainted, childlike, vaguely-Orcish joy.

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