Articles by Zoey Handley

About Zoey Handley

Zoey made up for her mundane childhood by playing video games. Now she won't shut up about them. Her eclectic tastes have led them across a vast assortment of consoles and both the best and worst games they have to offer. A lover of discovery, she can often be found scouring through retro and indie games. She currently works as a Staff Writer at Destructoid.

Review – Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes

March 7, 2019 Zoey Handley

I can’t account for my fascination with the character of Travis Touchdown. He’s a womanizing, awkward, selfish, and overall pathetic character, but I find him difficult to fully hate. Even in terms of his characterization, […]

Review – Super Dodgeball

March 4, 2019 Zoey Handley

I absolutely love the Kunio-Kun series. Over here, we got about 5 titles on the NES, all confusingly branded differently, whereas over in Japan, they got about a dozen, all confusingly branded differently. The unified […]

Review – Resident Evil 2 (2019 Remake)

February 28, 2019 Zoey Handley

Things have changed a lot with me since Resident Evil 2 on the N64 was giving me nightmares in grade school. What I once viewed as a thrilling and tantalizing mystery that drove my imagination […]

Review – Silent Hill

February 25, 2019 Zoey Handley

I think this was, like, my third attempt to complete Silent Hill. I was, for a time, a giant wuss when it came to horror games, but a few years ago, something clicked and now […]

Review – Onimusha: Warlords (2019 Remaster)

February 21, 2019 Zoey Handley

Around the time of Onimusha Warlord’s release, I was still firmly a Nintendo Fangirl. It would be a few years before I finally branched out and embraced all games, regardless of what filthy console they’re […]

Review – Cruis’n USA

February 18, 2019 Zoey Handley

Way, way back when the internet was delivered by telephone, we had to use a lot of imagination. Our only access to information on upcoming games was in magazines like Nintendo Power, which would often […]

Review – Chulip

February 14, 2019 Zoey Handley

A few years ago, I found myself in a lonely portion of my adulthood where absolutely nothing was happening. Without getting into it, it was a very introspective period that left me hyper-aware of the […]

Review – Chibi-Robo

February 11, 2019 Zoey Handley

Chibi-Robo is certainly a special game for me. I fell in love with it before release, while I was in college. On its day of release, I braved some harsh February Ottawa weather to go […]

Review – Super Mario RPG

February 7, 2019 Zoey Handley

It’s impossible to state what an event Super Mario RPG was in my childhood. I could spin quite a few yarns about my initial experiences with the game, like how, when I would rent it, […]

Review – Sonic the Hedgehog

February 4, 2019 Zoey Handley

My relationship with Sonic the Hedgehog is… complicated. I was an SNES child, so my mentor growing up was Mario, but my cousin had a Genesis, and I spent many mornings over there diving into […]