The MMORPG is a genre of games where large numbers of players get together to battle larger-than-life foes, leading to a very cooperative experience. While some allow players to also fight each other, I tend to avoid games that focus on the player versus player aspect, like Lineage II. And while I have played, and … Continue reading Game Reviews: Ragnarok Online (2003)
WARNING: This review can be a bit rambling at times. Sorry about that. Secret of Mana is that game I wanted to get, but I wound up with Secret of Evermore instead, a game that was enjoyable in it's own rights. It actually wasn't until about last year that I managed to get a copy … Continue reading Mana Retrospective (Part 2): Secret of Mana
Final Fantasy Adventure is a tough game to talk about since it's such an old game that a lot of the problems I have with it, I want to put down to the game not aging well. Of course this would be a place where a remake would be able to improve all of the … Continue reading Mana Retrospective (Part 1): Final Fantasy Adventure
I'm in EB Games with my father. I don't remember the year, but I believe it was sometime between the latter end of the Super Nintendo's life and the next generation of consoles. It might have been the start of the Nintendo 64's life, though. I'm looking at old Super Nintendo games because I can't … Continue reading Mana Retrospective (Part 0): Secret of Evermore (1995)
A lot of people are usually all about the big games when it comes to publishers and developers. Capcom has Resident Evil and Mega Man, amongst many others. EA has Mass Effect and a dozen gambling games masquerading as sports titles. Activision-Blizzard has Warcraft and Call of Duty. And then there's Square Enix with their … Continue reading Introduction to the Mana Retrospective
Very few games mean as much to me as Suikoden. While a lot of RPGs before this one influenced a number of things, Suikoden might be one of the finest role-playing game series I've ever played. Which might be an oddity as Suikoden, the original game, is not actually all that great. It forms a … Continue reading Game Reviews: Suikoden (1996)
Persona Q and Persona Q2 are games that're difficult to review simply because there's so much going on. Created as a type of fusion of Atlus' Etrian Odyssey dungeon crawlers and the rising in popularity Persona series, Persona Q is neither Etrian Odyssey nor Persona. It features a lot of the same features as both … Continue reading Game Review: Persona Q and Q2 (2014/2019)
I'm in a school assembly when a friend of mine brought out a Gameboy Advance, which he was playing this dark game on it. It was Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. It looked just like another well known game in the series, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It had leveling up, exploration, and whip-based combat, … Continue reading Game Review: Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (2001)
I don't often start a review on this point, but jesus christ, Estival Versus is a game made in Hell and belongs there. Even on the easiest difficulty, this game is hard for all the wrong reasons. Minions, actual name, have way too much health and are far too numerous. And for how often enemies … Continue reading Game Reviews: Senran Kagura – Estival Versus
After doing the Castlevania Collection, I had thought there would be less aggravation to be found in the previous collection, featuring a mere two games. Those being Rondo of Blood, from the PC Engine, and Symphony of the Night, from the Playstation, though I think some of the Saturn content is included. I was wrong. … Continue reading Game Review: Castlevania Requiem
The Professional Protagonist 