Recent reviews by Marrow

HELLOOOOO, where's my Tabletop Simulator recreation of this board game that replicates all the DLC so I don't have to pay for it???

A rather prosaic first person shooter with unremarkable story/characters and an absolute pisser of a final boss.
I recommend giving this game a pass unless you have a craving for early 2000's console shooters. The art style held up pretty well, so there's that.

Fantastic remake, worth it for the Xen overhaul alone.

Is good puzzle game.

A truly excellent game created by people who actually know what makes a video game good: rock solid mechanics and stellar level design that capitalizes on those mechanics while gently guiding and teaching the player through intuitive visual cues with a perfectly paced increase in difficulty. The wonderful artstyle and soundtrack are icing on the cake.

Get it before they increase the price.

This is a puzzle game. The first set of solutions are quite satisfying to discover and work well but then the game rapidly descends into moon logic. These are the kinds of puzzles where you're expected to read the dev's mind. Just watch the endings on youtube.

First two levels are alright then the game goes full quarter mun-cher. Level four in particular will eat your lunch.
There's no quick and easy way to restart a level in practice mode, which is actually quite aggravating if you're rehearsing a high score run, which is further exacerbated by Ikaruga's unforgiving grading; You pretty much have to memorize enemy placement for the entire level if you don't want a C grade. Every time you want to restart, you have to go all the way back to the title screen then set it all up again, which seems unreasonable for a level select mode.
Despite my complaining, this 2001 game still looks pretty good, has a great aesthetic and a strong soundtrack to back it up.
Get it on sale if you like arcade shmups, this game is a classic for a reason.

Kind of like a stealth-oriented Hotline Miami, the name of the game in Monaco is to get in, steal an objective, get out, while taking all the dosh along the way. Unlike most stealth games though, Monaco expects you to be caught, and gives you tools to deal with a situation. That's not to say finesse isn't important, since you have to earn additional gear usage.
The characters have different abilities and each one has a different way of handling the same level, giving great replayability.
Single-player and multi-player also have very different methods of approach.
Like all good games, it starts off simple but becomes quite challenging in the end. Getting all of the gold in a level unlocks mirrored, more difficult versions of the levels.
The music is a smooth ragtime piano that changes to fit the action. Haven't heard anything like it in other games.
Comes with a level editor, and the hours of additional play that entails.
I had a ton of fun with this game and I think you will too.

If you can stomach the ultra-violence, you'll find this to be one of the most intense, fast-paced and surreal action games around.

The quintessential time-manipulation puzzle game.
The visuals and music are icing on the cake.