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Bit.Trip Flux Review (Wii)

Commander Video has had a long journey. Since his debut in 2009’s Bit.Trip Beat—the first in the six-game Bit.Trip series, which melds a slick retro look with modern design sensibilities—the series’ lo-fi consciousness-cum-protagonist has lived the full, digitized life of a world-weary traveler. The realms that Video explored were pixellated abstractions of videogames’ would-be evolution, and his path an externalization of himself....  read more

Cave Story Review (Wii)

Developer: Studio Pixel Publisher: Nicalis Platform: WiiWare A challenging platformer that takes you back to the good old days Before it became WiiWare, Cave Story was just freeware. Single-handedly developed over half a decade by game designer Daisuke Amaya and unleashed onto the Internet in 2004, the game drew loads of buzz and evolved into a genuine cult hit over the years, spawning tribute sites and fan translations. So porting it over to the Wii seemed like the natural step, and it’s the natural system for a game like Cave Story....  read more

Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth Review (Wii)

Developer: M2 Publisher: Konami Platform: WiiWare Wait, Castlevania needs to be reborn? Unlike Gradius and Contra, the first two Konami franchises to get the ReBirth treatment, the Castlevania series has never gone away. It hasn’t even changed that much over the years. Konami’s kept that whip a-crackin’ on the DS with a steady flow of traditional two-dimensional Castlevania side-scrollers. They’re as much of a handheld staple as those animal touching games kids get when their parents are too cheap or lazy to take them to a real zoo....  read more