ZCW Reviews

Marine Architecting-An Aquarium Designer Review In a diversion from the past two weeks of non-stop action games, I decided to take a break this week with something more relaxed in Aquarium Designer. Previously I was a huge fan of these more casual type games like House Flipper, so let's see if Aquarium Designer can scratch that itch.  Aquatic Ambience Aquarium Designer revolves around completing all different types of Aquariums based off of jobs sent to you through your email. The main campaign will see you complete around 30 different missions, all with their own unique requirements and special secondary objectives for more flare. My personal favorite missions revolved around a client who wanted you to make the aquarium quickly, putting a time limit on your build and pushing you to make quick moves in the menus. In addition to the campaign, you can also freely create your own tanks, with the option to have them get dirty and deteriorate in real time if you fail to take care of the...

A Testament To Its Time-A Sin and Punishment (N64) Review With the recent announcement of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion pack , I hovered through all the N64 offerings and noticed one odd game out: the previously Japanese only release Sin and Punishment, which prompted me to give it a look. If Nintendo is truly putting this alongside all time classics like Mario 64 and Star fox 64, how does this title hold up? In short- absolutely. *Short disclaimer: All captured footage here is recorded in an Emulator running a specialized graphics plugin to both enhance texture resolution as well as add English to all menus. Any graphical glitches are not found in the actual game. If you'd like to experience this enhanced version, check out the graphics plugin here * A Sneaky Little Classic  Sin and Punishment is essentially Star Fox but instead of commanding an Arwing you run through levels on the ground in that similar on rails style. Like those games, Sin and Punishment is able to genera...

  A Dance of Bots and Blood-An Ultrakill Early Access Review I had viewed Ultrakill for the first time some months ago, remembered having a great time, but had to play some other games in the meantime and forgot about it. For this week, I decided to come back (the game is currently on the greed update) and see all that this game had to offer.  Ultra-Dopamine-Rush To me, Ultrakill is the absolute best way to reinterpret the "boomer shooter" genre of doom in the modern age. It's obscenely smooth, coupled with a perfect smash of difficulty options for every player, especially those who seek to master its mechanics-mechanics of which push you to master them in meaningful ways.  In Ultrakill you'll frantically switch around you arsenal, each weapon of which has multiple secondary firing mechanisms to swap between, as you destroy wave after wave of enemy and boss alike. At any one moment of Ultrakill you'll be monitoring how many shots you have left of special bullets b...

The Return of The Rolling Rascals-A Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania Review For this week I spent an absolute ton of time playing through the brand new Super Monkey Ball Remake, and I wanted to instead switch up the typical format of this review. Since this is a remake, I split this review into cohesive sections in order to compare it effectively to the originals. This review will be a little late for this week (sorry about that), but I wanted to take the time needed to evaluate all the content, and there a lot, that this game has to offer.  Gameplay This is finally the return of Super Monkey Ball we have all been waiting for. The gameplay is not bogged down by outrageous motion controls or gimmicks, it's just rolling around simple levels. It’s insane that it has taken the 20th anniversary of a series to have a good title since the series origins back with the first two titles-but here we are.  Outside of a few tweaks to some overly frustrating levels, of which you can play thei...