Chroma Squad is a fantastic turn-based RPG that is both a loving homage to the Power Rangers, but also an ingenious look at the production of a TV series. Rather than fighting evil as the Crayon Box of Justice, you instead play a manager of a new Super Sentai show hoping to become the greatest show on television. It's a formula that works fantastically.

 

The creator of Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani, once created another arcade game called Libble Rabble. It's a cult hit now, but at the time, it didn't go over well when it first released in Japanese arcades. In this video, we take a look at an overshadowed game in the legendary creator's catalog. Or, is it one of this games? That's an important question to answer. One that we kind of answer in this video. We also visit some Tokyo nightclubs, so that's neat.

 

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda recently said that the age of developers creating new mechanics is over, something he’s apparently being saying since Journey. For the most part, I agree with him. But there's one AAA game that bucked this trend - Watch Dogs Legion. With its incredible NPC recruitment system, it turned what would otherwise have been an okay game into a great one. There are some flaws however...

 

Luigi's Mansion 3 was this close to greatness. Its first half is brilliant, with fantastic animations, its bursting at the seams with charm, great puzzles, a fantastic setting, and fun collecting. It's Nintendo at their best.

But as the game progresses, some flaws become more and more obvious. So much so that it kind of became annoying. It's also got one of the most annoying levels in a video game I've seen in over a decade. Despite this, its still an excellent game, just not as great as it could have been.

 

I used to be a fiction writer, and not a very good one. When I was still in college (or maybe just after I left) I wrote fan fiction set in Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe. Starring a gargoyle named Ashlar and an astronaut named Bizz, the two set off on an intergalactic journey of defying odds and rewriting history. I think that's what I was going for anyway, I never actually finished it. But hey, there are no shortages of cameos, because why would there be?