Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure Review
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Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure Review

Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure is a throwback to a bygone era. The graphics, music, gameplay, and even the menus are all reminiscent of an NES game. This is obviously not the first modern console game to attempt this aesthetic, but it does do it quite well. And yet, it still manages to differentiate…

Habroxia Review: Gradius without the challenge
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Habroxia Review: Gradius without the challenge

Habroxia immediately grabbed my attention for its retro arcade-style gameplay. As someone who grew up at the tail-end of the coin-op and NES era, I’ve always been fond of 2D space shooters like this. One of my first experiences in the genre was Konami’s Life Force, which is a spinoff of Gradius. The game is…

Space shooter Habroxia coming this month to PS4, Vita, Nintendo Switch
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Space shooter Habroxia coming this month to PS4, Vita, Nintendo Switch

Canadian indie developer Lillymo Games is bringing the 16-bit arcade-style space shooter Habroxia to North America on PS4, PS Vita, and Nintendo Switch later this month. Habroxia is an homage to classic Konami space shooters like Gradius and Life Force (known as Salamander in Japan). Players blast their way through fifteen levels with boss fights, rescue…