My actual reaction is probably on video somewhere in our archives, but I still cannot believe how goooooooood Flinthook feels. It’s so tight that it made me drop the controller. Seriously, if you nail that Mario-level feel to your platformer not much else matters to me. There’s nothing else left to prove because no matter…

I found 2017 to be an interesting reflection of games where three genres churned out entries like clockwork: Souls-likes, battle royales, and, my close friends, the rogue-likes. I was pumped for one rogue-like in particular in the spring about a ghost pirate dude: Flinthook. It almost had everything I could want: the look, the hook,…