Tag Archives: Retro Studios

The 2012 Too Much Awesome Resolutions

Today, we at Toy-TMA bid farewell to the fond memories of 2011 and look forward to a whole new year on the horizon. 2012, Year of Democratic elections, Disaster predictions, and the Dragon (gotta love the dragon). Will the year be dramatically dangerous, or disappointingly dismal? I don’t know. But in the mean time, it [...]

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The Missing Link: A Review of Donkey Kong Country Returns

The Donkey Kong Country Trilogy stands as one of the best grouping of video games you can possibly find, and certainly one of the best platforming experiences next to the holiness that is Mario and early Sonic. Nintendo set out to recreate the glory of DK’s finest hour, tasking Retro Studios with the job. Did [...]

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Samuses Should Be Seen, Not Heard: A Review of Metroid: Other M

So Metroid: Other M is now out. I haven’t played it yet. Notice that “yet” there. Don’t worry, I intend to play through this one as soon as possible, I just haven’t yet. Still, it’s my duty to inform our many, er, several readers about the big Wii game that’s got everyone talking. What I [...]

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Metroid: A Retrospective

Guess what comes out on the 31st? Metroid: Other M. I’ll have a review for that eventually, but in the meantime, I wanted to take the time to write about my experiences with the Metroid series, a series that is seriously fantastic. It may be surprisingly, but the Metroid series has in recent years become [...]

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The Monkey Comes Back: A Preview of Donkey Kong Country Returns

This year’s E3 was full of a lot of win, assuming you were a Nintendo fanboy such as myself. While some announcements were completely out of left field, others were pretty expected. Donkey Kong Country Returns was somewhere in the middle, having been leaked as a thing currently in development by Retro Studios not long [...]

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