Often disregarded as a “Ninja Gaiden ripoff”, Shadow of the ninja remains one of the most proficient platformers i ever played on the NES. Developed by Natsume, a company better known for its farming simulations (!), SOTN, known as Blue Shadow in Europe and Kage in Asia, was a rock solid, fast paced ninja platformer [...]
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Forgotten gems: Discworld Noir
Now here’s a true modern adventure classic if you ask me.The third of Perfect’s Discworld adventure games, this euro-only 3CD point&click adventure basically slipped in under the radar in 1999 and pretty much stayed there since. Considering how bloody smart and enjoyable it is, that’s an enormous shame. Other classics such as Lucasarts’ masterpiece adventures [...]