Late to the Game(s) - Retro! Reissued! Remastered! Oh my!

Broken Lines brings engrossing TRPG to PC and Switch Just because it's available on Nintendo Switch doesn't  mean    Broken Lines   is  a  kid-friendly game.  The game  play, dialogue  and  story are aimed at adults. Tactical role playing games (TRPGs) are an interesting genre. Usually aimed at the “hard core” gamer demographic, at higher levels and harder settings they can require chess-like planning, forethought, and troop coordination. Resource management, party makeup, and terrain advantages can all play into a successful campaign, or lead to a crushing defeat. It's the kind of game that appeals to those who love to crunch numbers and consider strategy. These aren't the types of games where you go in swinging a sword and screaming “Leroy Jenkins!” You have to think about how a fight could play out, and set it up in advance so that it plays out to your advantage. Sometimes, though, you just want to see a story play out and ...

It's too true. 

I might have a bit of a video game problem. That problem is too many games, not enough time.  I first bought this domain almost a year ago. I'd gotten a code for a game - Second Hand: Frankie's Revenge - through my day job at the time as a newspaper writer (more about that later) and figured if my paper couldn't use it, or our big sister paper didn't want it for their entertainment section, I might go ahead and review it anyway and put it up on this new blog I had been mulling over. See, I play a lot of video games. Or, at least, I played a lot of video games before my son was born. Now I start a lot of video games, and then stop them when he requires my attention, until I finish the game weeks or months after starting it or a new game grabs my attention. One of the things I've noticed over the past several years, which I'm sure most of you who have been playing games for a while have noticed as well, are the preponderance of "retro" styled gam...