1. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch)(Adventure)2. Final Fight [Japanese Version] (Switch)(Beat 'Em Up)3. Ziggurat (PC)(FPS)
4. Magrunner: Dark Pulse (PC)(FPS)
5. The King of Dragons [Japanese](Arcade)(Beat 'Em Up)6. Captain Commando [Japanese](Arcade)(Beat 'Em Up)7. Knights of the Round [Japanese](Arcade)(Beat 'Em Up)
8. The Witcher (PC)(RPG)9. Tenchi wo Kurau II (Arcade)(Beat 'Em Up)
10. Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (PC)(RPG)11. Lichdom: Battlemage (PC)(FPS/RPG Hybrid)
12. Star Wars: Republic Commando (PC)(FPS)13. DOOM 64 (PC)(FPS)
14. Half Dead 2 (PC)(Adventure)15. Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment (Arcade)(Beat 'Em Up)
16. Torchlight II (PC)(RPG)17. Battle Circuit [Japanese](Arcade)(Beat 'Em Up)
18. Hard Reset Redux (PC)(FPS)19. The Stanley Parable (PC)(Walking Sim)20. Waking Mars (PC)(Adventure)
21. Requiem: Avenging Angel (PC)(FPS)22. Night Slashers (Arcade)(Beat 'Em Up)
23. Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD (PC)(Action Adventure)24. Strikers 1945 (Arcade)(SHMUP)
25. SiN Episodes: Emergence (PC)(FPS)
26. Crysis Warhead (PC)(FPS)27. Metro 2033 (PC)(FPS)
28. Good Job! (Switch)(Puzzle)
29. Blasphemous (Switch)(Action Adventure)30. Two Worlds: Epic Edition (PC)(RPG)
31. Chex Quest HD (PC)(FPS)32. NecroVision: Lost Company (PC)(FPS)
33. Icewind Dale (PC)(RPG)34. Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter (PC)(RPG)
35. Icewind Dale: Trials of the Luremaster (PC)(RPG)36. Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession (PC)(RPG)37. Singularity (PC)(FPS)38. The Witcher 2 (PC)(RPG)39. Still Life 2 (PC)(Point and Click Adventure)40. Myst IV: Revelation (PC)(Point and Click Adventure)41. Gato Roboto (Switch)(Action Adventure)
42. Painkiller: Overdose (PC)(FPS)These are two very different games, and they elicited two very different responses from me.
Gato RobotoYou play a cat. Your owner, some kind of military pilot in an interstellar federation of humans, crashlands his ship on a planet while monitoring a distress signal coming from an abandoned research outpost. Of course, since he's now pinned inside, it's up to his faithful kitty to go find an armored mech suit and discover the facility's secrets.
Imagine Metroid.
Now imagine Metroid if Samus was a cat.
It works. It works amazingly well. The game is faithfully built on Metroid's style and presentation, but it's also whimsical because you're an adorable kitty. Also, you can in fact leave your suit at times to explore parts of the facility, giving you access to a few new moves that Samus only wishes she could pull off. At times it's challenging, with some points that require thinking and strategy while at others requiring fast reflexes and situational awareness. Yet it's also short enough not to overstay its welcome, with a few hidden unlockables and secrets for fun. I managed to beat it with an initial time under four hours, and I did some backtracking for fun at the end to see what my powered up suit could do.
Also, it has color palettes you can find, which is great, because the game is only two colors. One of these palettes turns the black/white color scheme into black/green and looks like a Game Boy game. Another is black/red and looks like something from the Virtual Boy. The devs here really knew what they were doing.
Gato Roboto is a delight. It's on Steam, but I found it a perfect Switch game.
Painkiller: OverdoseThe original Painkiller is a fun FPS with an exceptionally dumb plot that's basically built of ridiculous weapons and fighting hordes of ridiculous monsters. The later Painkiller games continue this tradition but not as well. Painkiller: Overdose is a later Painkiller game. It keeps the dumb plot but merely reskins a lot of the ridiculous elements, gives you some bland level design to fight in often consisting of square or rectangular rooms, and it reuses assets from the original game as often as possible. Also, it runs about as well as a Ford Pinto...mid-explosion. And even that explosion isn't cool.
The plot is you're a half-demon half-angel who complains a lot and has daddy issues. You wake up and fight your way through Purgatory to go beat up your absent father. That's it.
The game consists of levels which have various themes, though if you have played any previous Painkiller, you'll soon notice that you're fighting some of the same enemies you did in previous games, only now they're a different color. There are a few new enemies, but most of them aren't good design. The one that is? I'll praise it later. That's it.
Your weapons consist of rehashed designs from previous Painkiller games or blended variations. For instance, the freezing shotgun and chaingun rocket launcher come back. Your stake gun is now combined with the crossbow that launches ball-bearings, only now the ball bearings explode. You have a demon cube that's the same as the Painkiller in previous games. That's half your arsenal right there. The other half? A broken sword that has a janky spinning attack, a demon egg that is just a remote-controlled bomb, a shotgun variant that shoots toxic sludge, and a demon head that shoots lasers from its eyes and has a weaker version of your powered up demon scream from eating too many souls. That one...is actually pretty cool, not gonna lie.
Oh, and the game just crashed. Reloading your saved? Crashed. Reload an older save? Crashed. Go back and lose twenty minutes of progress having to fight the same monotonous demons over again? Good for you, it's gonna- the game froze.
The best part of this game is the one enemy type I mentioned earlier: it's a wooden cutout of a classic movie monster on wheels. And I do mean classic, like the Universal Wolfman or Nosferatu. It slowly wheels up to you and then spins around to hit you. It also takes a lot of punishment from the front, but if you use your weapons strategically, you can get behind and drop it quick. It changes up the monotony a bit and offers a fun little tribute to some favorite movies of mine, so this was by far the highlight. It's certainly better than the demon chicken roosts.
I really didn't like Painkiller: Overdose. I really don't recommend it.