platforming – Pop Onion

Metroid: Zero Mission

In preparation for a future playthrough of Dread, I’m taking a look at the earliest game in the series’ chronology – Metroid: Zero Mission.

I’ve talked before on this blog about how Mario played a big part in my early gaming days – playing Super Mario 64 with my parents and exploring the cosmos with Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel. There was however, a dark time in Nintendo history, when I completely fell out of love with theContinue reading “Super Mario Odyssey”

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Reinvention is basically Mario’s M.O. at this point, from those early days pioneering 2D platforming, to the jump into 3D and the wild, gravity defying exploits of Super Mario Galaxy, the plumber has been continually pushing the boundaries of what his games can achieve and be. Each time, Nintendo has been unsatisfied with letting MarioContinue reading “Super Mario Galaxy 2”