Recent reviews by Nethrec

This is one of my favourite indy games to come out this year. Binding of Isaac gives the experience of dugeon crawling from early Legend of Zelda games, with procedural generated content being a major factor. Rooms, enmies, bosses, and items are all randomly generated for every play through, which makes for incredibly unique experiences every time you play. The glaring issues with this title seem to all be represented on the technical side of things: deleting temporary browser data /still/ wipes part of your save file, no steam cloud support, limited control configuration (no gamepad support). Gribes aside, Binding of Isaac offers hours of arcade-like entertainment with high replay value, all for a mere $5.

I'm typically not a fan of superhero-based games, but Batman: Arkham Asylum was one of the best games that came out in 2009, and a true paradigm for any superhero-themed game. I've never seen a better blend of stealth and action game play. The voice acting was stellar, if not the best I've ever heard in a video game before. B:AA has set the bar incredibly high for this genre. One can only dream what Arkham City will have in store for gamers in future.