Category: Review
Review: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
Reluctant Work In past reviews, I have touched on a bit of the history of Nihon Falcom’s games. The big one, of course, is the Ys series. Out of Falcom’s repertoire, Ys is... Read More
Review: Abyss Odyssey
Trying Something Different Among indie game developers recently, a fad has developed for the Roguelike genre. Procedurally-generated levels, difficult enemies, and repeated runs through a game are all... Read More
Classic Review: The Witcher
The Hype Machine Out of the massive amount of news and announcements from this year’s E3, one of the most anticipated upcoming games comes not from a major developer... Read More
Review: Ys: Memories of Celceta
Weaving a Story In 1993, Nihon Falcom had hit a bit of a wall in the Ys series. After the drastically different direction they took Ys III: Wanderers from Ys, changing... Read More
Review: Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
I can still remember the first time I was introduced to Final Fantasy X. I didn’t have a PlayStation 2 yet and a friend had brought his over... Read More
Review: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
It has been eight years since the world was first introduced to Lightning, a character that would lead Final Fantasy into the console generation and be the... Read More
Review: Insurgency
Back to Basics The First Person Shooter genre is probably the most popular genre of video games in current times. Of course, you don’t need me to tell... Read More
Review: Tales of Phantasia [iOS]
Left Behind Until recently, the Tales series has had a spotty history of Western localization. On average, one in three Tales games has yet to reach American shores,... Read More
Classic Review: Ys II
[NOTE: It is difficult to discuss the story of Ys II without mentioning plot points of the first game. This review will have spoilers for the end of Ys... Read More
Classic Review: Ys I
The Obscure Third In the 1980s, there were three big names in the JRPG genre. Two of them are well-known to just about every gamer in the West:... Read More
Classic Review: Tales of Destiny
The Next Big Genre Following the release and rave reviews of Final Fantasy VII in 1997, publishers went on a race to bring over as many JRPGs as... Read More
Review: Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
Classic games are called “classic” for a reason. The Donkey Kong Country series were some popular platformers on the Super Nintendo back in the mid to late 90s.... Read More
Review: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
The Last Action Hero What happened to the action hero? That impossibly buff, remarkably handsome, and completely badass, hardcore, ain’t-afraid-of-nothing, ice-cold mamma jamma has been curiously absent since... Read More
Review: Bioshock Infinite
Lets think back to 2007 for a moment. That one time you somehow survived a plane crash, finding a deserted lighthouse and using the submersible within to be... Read More
Review: Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil 6 was announced to the world with Leon S. Kennedy killing a zombified President of the United States. From that moment, we knew that the next... Read More
Review: Bastion
Supergiant Games Bastion was on my watch list from the second I saw its gorgeous art style. Since then, Ive been counting down the days till I could... Read More- 22 of 22
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