James Wilson, Author at Big Boss Battle (B3)

Pokopia – Living the Dream with your Childhood Friends

James Wilson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:00:38 +0000

Pokopia has hit the headlines recently as being one of the first Switch 2 must haves, with fans flocking to stores to pick up the console in order to dive in. It probably goes without saying, but Nintendo didn’t send us a code for this one. Instead our author decided to write something up from […]

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Drop Duchy – Princley Puzzle, or Ponderous Pauper?

James Wilson — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:00:22 +0000

Drop Duchy – Complete Edition dropped onto Xbox Game Pass early this year, so I decided to take a look at this strange puzzle/deck building/rogue-lite. What I found intrigued me. If you’ve read any of my other reviews, you’ve probably realised by now I tend to start with some variation of “so the gameplay loop […]

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Battle Puzzle 2048 Queens of the Abyss – Technically a Puzzle, but not fit for Royalty

James Wilson — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:26 +0000

EpiXR Games is at it again with another technically playable game with little to no instruction. Battle Puzzle 2048 – Queens of the Abyss (By the grace of the editors, now shortened to BP2048) is a reimagining of the 2048 game everybody was obsessed with a few years ago. If, like me, you were somehow […]

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Zumba Marble Candy Rush – Sweet Surprise, or Gut Rot?

James Wilson — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:00:30 +0000

I was a huge fan of the Zuma titles back when they first released, so when Zumba – Marble Candy Rush (ZMCR, please Ed?) crossed my desk I was excited — despite the obvious copycat behaviour. A good game is a good game, right? Even when the title is a smattering of buzzwords and search […]

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Capes – Crime Fighting Ain’t Pretty

James Wilson — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000

Capes is a turn based strategy RPG set in a world not unlike ours. A shadowy corporation rules the streets, punishing those who try to do good whilst controlling the narrative and labelling them terrorists. The key difference? They have superpowers. Capes runs like XCOM without the extra gumph (this is no shade on XCOM, […]

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Everwarder – Not Quite a Glowing Success

James Wilson — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:19:17 +0000

I want to like Everwarder, I really do. If I had to give it a genre label, it would be tower-defense/rogue-like… It doesn’t quite capture what the game is about, but it’s the closest box I can find. Everwarder drew me in with its simple but charming pixel graphics and tinkly soundtrack, and kept me […]

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Grindstone – Gems, Guts, and yes, plenty of Grinding

James Wilson — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:00:34 +0000

Grindstone originally began life as an Apple Arcade exclusive back in 2019, then an Epic Games Store exclusive in 2022. It eventually landed on Xbox and PlayStation consoles in 2023, and by god I’m glad it did. I technically slept on this game for three years, until I finally mustered up the courage to grab […]

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Roots Devour – Lovecraftian Horror, or Eldritch Bother?

James Wilson — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:00:57 +0000

Roots Devour is a stylish game, there’s no denying that. How much fruit this tree bears will be very dependent on how well you gel with that style though. Starting at the basics, Rewinding Games describe Roots Devour as a “strategic exploration” game. Using your mouse (with WASD to pan), you connect vines from your […]

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Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch – A Potential Gem Buried in Mechanics

James Wilson — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:00:34 +0000

Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch is an interesting beast. Part deck builder, part tower defense and part dungeon management, this is a game of so many gears I’m unsure if they all make the machine run smoother or jam up the mechanisms. The basic mechanics of Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch are explained well enough. Heroes are coming to […]

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Humble Haunted House – An un-amusing tower defense flop

James Wilson — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:00:20 +0000

Whenever I read reviews, I always try to get an idea of how long the reviewer has played the game for. Have they really given the game a chance? Did they persevere to see if there was any gold past a bumpy start? So believe me when I say I really wanted to give Humble […]

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Knight with Tactics – A Medieval Sliding “Puzzle”

James Wilson — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:00:49 +0000

Knight with Tactics is listed as a “puzzle & trivia” game. If the trivia question is “how fast can you get 1000 gamerscore?” then I can advise the answer is approximately three minutes. Gameplay in Knight with Tactics takes the form of a sliding puzzle. You control a knight who can only move in the […]

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Ink Inside – A Splash of Creativity for the Action-RPG Genre

James Wilson — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:00:01 +0000

I tried starting this review in a few different ways, but I think the following sentence gives you the best summary: Ink Inside is an RPG in which doodles throw dodgeballs at each other. They do this to defeat the evil that has possessed the enemies, and then they do it again to… Ahem… Ram […]

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