Patrick's Top 10 Games of 2019
2019 was an unexpectedly slim year for me. Despite finally getting my hands on (and head in) a PlayStation VR – or perhaps because of it – most of my gaming was actually stuff I missed out on in recent…
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Patrick’s Top 10 Games of 2018
by Patrick Mifflin
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29 Dec 2018
There’s something to be said for consistency. Going into 2018, I could have put together a list very much like this one predicting how my top picks of the year would pan out, with the only surprises being games that…
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Patrick’s Top 10 Games of 2017
I’ve traditionally been a little bit of an outlier in the Game of the Year system here at SmashPad, largely because I tend to go into the year knowing what my top ten is likely to be at the end….
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“Tekken 7” Review
The Tekken franchise has long since found its place in the fighting game landscape. Street Fighter II may have been the game that truly marked the genre’s arrival to fighting game prominence, and Virtua Fighter was the true 3D pioneer…
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“The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd” Review
When Nihon Falcom reinvented their long-running Legend of Heroes franchise in 2004 as Trails in the Sky, the JRPG genre as a whole was in quite a different place than it was in 2011, when Xseed Games would localize the…
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“Super Bomberman R” Review
There are few more deeply established institutions in the world of multiplayer gaming than Bomberman. Born on the NES and MSX as a one-off single player experience in the mid-80s, it wasn’t until Hudson Soft resurrected the concept in 1990…
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“Old-Time Hockey” Review
Hockey is, without a doubt, the toughest and most demanding of the “big four” major professional sports. Football demands toughness, yes, but only 16 times a year to hockey’s 82 (potentially 110 if you’re on a great team that just…
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“FAST RMX” Review
Intended or otherwise, Shin’en Multimedia’s FAST Racing League has quietly become Nintendo’s unlikely marquee arcade racing franchise in the now generations-long glaring absence of the first party F-Zero and Wave Race.
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“Yakuza 0” Review
When Sega quietly put the Shenmue franchise in mothballs about 15 years ago, they even more quietly transplanted its core concept to “Project J,” which would later be given the name Ryu ga Gotoku (lit: Like a Dragon) upon its…
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“Garou: Mark of the Wolves” Review (PC)
SNK’s recent revitalization has been a very successful one, not just due to the brilliance of their comeback game, The King of Fighters XIV, but in their ability to open their back catalogue to new and old fans alike on…
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“Garou: Mark of the Wolves” Review (PS4, Vita)
SNK’s recent revitalization has been a very successful one, not just due to the brilliance of their comeback game, The King of Fighters XIV, but in their ability to open their back catalogue to new and old fans alike on…
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Patrick’s Top 10 Games of 2016
This was kind of an odd year for me, in a Game of the Year sense, because I honestly felt as though I knew going into the year how my entire list was going to shake out, and I wasn’t…
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