March was a pretty hard-hitting month, with lots of huge releases across all consoles. Obviously April won’t compare…

But I wasn’t expecting such a low number of note-worthy releases. PS3, Xbox 360, PSP and PC get no interesting exclusive releases, so we’re left with just a few interesting multi-platform releases, 3 DS releases(including 1 japanese release), and 2 Wii releases. A very slow month indeed.

It might be a small month, but still, come and check what are the interesting games coming in April 2010!

As usual, Multiplatform releases first, ordered by date, and if the game is a japanese release it is marked accordingly.

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jobocan Console, Game of the Year, Games, Handheld, News, PC, PSN, Releases, WiiWare, XBLA, ds, games of the month, import, ps3, wii, xbox 360

Didn’t think that would ever happen. Here I am, reviewing a new NES game. It came out just a few weeks ago, and it was all made by one guy, nicknamed Sivak (click here for his youtube channel). Yeah, when I heard about the game and saw gameplay videos, I was instantly excited for it. I mean, a new NES game in an NES cartridge, and it actually looked good? I had to play it. And what a nice addition to my continually growing NES collection too, which is now over 120 games big.

After a few months of waiting, it finally came for sale, and I got it within minutes, not long before it sold out.

Read on and see if Sivak made a masterpiece, or if was just a dud.
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This is a movie I was quite excited about for 2 reasons. First, it’s Alice in Wonderland. And I LOVED the original animated film by Disney, which still lives up to this day. Second reason is that it’s made by Tim Burton, a man who made wonderful movies like Ed Wood and The Nightmare Before Christmas, amongst others(like the beetlejuice cartoons).

Another tiny draw was the fact that the movie was presented in 3D. I didn’t watch Avatar in 3D, so I was quite interested in seeing if the new 3D technology was worth all the hype it was getting.

So read on and see what I thought of the movie, and what I thought of the 3D technology used in it!
(Note: I did not see the movie in Imax, just the “Disney Digital 3D” version of it)
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I was planning on doing a full review of this game before playing it. But then I put the UMD in my PSP, and after seconds of playing I thought “Wait a second, didn’t I play this before?”. And after checking it up, I did… and heck, I even reviewed it over a year ago. That’s right, Metal Slug XX is actually just a PSP port of the 2008 release of Metal Slug 7 on DS. Yeah… I wasn’t expecting that (since I didn’t inform myself on this game other than knowing it was coming out).

So instead of doing a full review, since I already did that, I’ll just give my impressions on the ports quality.

Here goes! Just a note, this will be a really short review.
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The PS3 is a bit low on unique and exclusive RPGs, and Last Rebellion seems to be offering something really nice. Turn-based, using a completely unique battle system, and being one of the few PS3 exclusive RPGs, it seems to be made to please PS3 users.

So does Last Rebellion really offer something fun and unique to PS3 users looking for fun exclusive RPGs?

Read on and see!
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AH yes, Capcom milking something that hasn’t really been milked since the early 90s. After the success(and awesomeness) of Mega Man 9, it was no surprise that people wanted more, and Capcom never misses the opportunity to make easy money.

Since the fans loved it so much, myself included, this game goes back to the NES style of Mega Man games again. Cover art and all. Yeah, I really love that cover art… The game features nostalgic graphics, nostalgic music and nostalgic gameplay.

Does it hold of as well as Mega Man 9, or should have Capcom stopped milking the cow already?

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This is gonna be a short post. Partly because I haven’t played much of the game(a bit over 4 hours) and I don’t plan on playing it ever again, and partly because, frankly, there’s not much to say about it. As such, I also won’t be posting a full review.

Shiren is an established franchise is Japan, starting… either on the SNES or the Game Boy. It has multiple games spanning multiple consoles including the  previously mentioned ones, as well as N64, GBA, PC, PSP, GBC, Dreamcast and DS. We got the DS version in America 2 years ago, so this is the second game in the series that we get here.

I did play a bit of the DS version, and didn’t enjoy it much. I actually barely heard about the Wii release until just before it came out, and didn’t really inform myself about it, but I did rent it a few weeks after release.

So read on and see what I thought of it!
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March has some pretty cool releases, including one of the most awaited games in years.

There’s lots of good releases, a few that aren’t too great, but overall it seems like it should be a really good month. Let’s go and see what March has in store for us gamers, shall we?

As usual, the multi-platform releases are toghether, the exclusive releases are in their own sections, and japanese releases are marked accordingly.

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I really like the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney series. The characters, the well built stories, the style, the writing… I love it. When I learned Miles Edgeworth was getting his own game, I was hyped.

When I learned that the game would be concentrating more on the investigations, I was worried, but curious anyways. I was unsure if the game would retain the rest of the series’ feel, or if it would become boring because of the new way the game works.

Was I right to be worried, or is this game a gem just like the previous games in the series? Read on and see!
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Plants VS Zombies originally came out on the PC last year, and the iPhone/iPod Touch version was constantly being delayed. But now it’s finally out.

Does it hold up to the PC version, or should people just pay a bit extra for a better experience?

Read on and see!
(NOTE: this will be extremely short… I’ll mostly talk about the port’s quality)
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