Shank was a game that really intrigued me for quite a while. It looked cool, but I was unsure if it was gonna be good, or just needlessly violent to appeal to the masses. The gameplay seemed interesting, but, without playing it, it was hard to tell.
So I finally got to play it, and… I’m pretty satisfied, if not a bit annoyed at a few things.
Read on and see what I liked and disliked about Shank!
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Well, this week has been a dream week for Scott Pilgrim fans, with the movie coming out on Friday, and the game coming out on Tuesday on the PSN.
Just from the trailers, it was clear this game was gonna be great, and obviously a tribute to games of the old. The trailers displayed colorful graphics, fun gameplay, and incredible 8-bit music. Enough to make any gamer happy.
So obviously I was hyped for the game, and not just because I loved the Scott Pilgrim comics, but because it looked like a legitimately great game.
Read on and see if I was right!
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Well I just came back from seeing Scott Pilgrim vs the World. And… well, I was originally planning on having one big super-post reviewing the whole of Scott Pilgrim, including the movie, the game, and the comic. But after seeing the movie, I realized I had a lot more to say about it than I was originally expecting. As such, I’ll review the game and movie separately (and will not bother with reviewing the awesome comic series).
Just a quick look at how I got into Scott Pilgrim: I never heard about it, at all, until I saw the first trailer for the movie. And I thought it looked awesome. And then I found out it was actually based on a comic book, so I went and read it, though I waited a while before doing so, so I ended up reading the comic, multiple times, back in June (and the final volume, multiple times, the day it came out). Loved every second of it so I set my expectations for the movie pretty high. And than add the fact that it’s being made by Edgar Wright… yeah, I was really damn hyped.
So read on and see what I liked and didn’t like about the movie!
(NOTE: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS, BUT I’LL TRY TO NOT SPOIL TOO MUCH)
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Well that took way too long to come out. The first Monster Rancher DS game came out in japan in 2007, and a second one came out in 2008. On the american side of the world, nothing. Surprisingly, 2 years later, it was announced for the US. Not the first game that came out in japan, but the second one, so one of them was skipped (which is probably a good thing).
After the announcement, it was said to come out in March… and then it was delayed a month, and then it was delayed 2 months, and then it was delayed another month, just to be delayed another 2 weeks. Damn! I have no idea why it was delayed so much… and it did change publishers on the way which is pretty weird. But finally the wait is over and we can play the game!
Monster Rancher isn’t a series I played a lot of… I played Monster Rancher Advance a bit, and Monster Rancher Advance 2 a LOT, but I haven’t played any of the PS1/PS2 versions of the series, so I missed the novelty of summoning monsters using any disc you could find in your home. But still, I loved playing the GBA games in the series, they remain as my most played games on the system.
So… read on and see if the huge amount of wait was worth it!
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Everyone loves Castlevania, right? One of the more interesting series in the gaming industry. There’s the super-hard classic games, the metroid style games, and the not-too-good 3D action games, it has spanned a lot of game genres. And, other than the 3D games, they’re all really damn good (yes, even Simon’s Quest… which would have been awesome if the translation wasn’t terrible, because you really NEED a guide to finish it since the townspeople are really useless).
Well, Castlevania is tackling a new genre again: puzzles! And just to be completely weird, it’s a remake of Symphony of the Night… Weird.
So read on and see if it’s any good!
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While Record of Agarest War was just like Cross Edge in almost every way, this is another game I had up as this year’s candidate for “game that will have the same kind of reviews as Cross Edge”. Surprisingly enough, it seems like people were a bit more lenient on this one than they were with Cross Edge. Granted, it doesn’t suffer from as many problems as Cross Edge, but it’s still aiming at exactly the same audience.
I was interested in the game partly because of the Disgaea crossovers, but also because the gameplay seemed fairly solid. So I had some fairly good expectations for this.
Read on!
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(Despite the Xbox 360 boxart here, the PS3 version is reviewed… there’s no PS3 boxart so I went with the closest thing)This year we get Record of Agarest War. Made by the same company, and it has a lot in common. So maybe this is this year’s “Cross Edge” in a sense. It’s been out for a while now, I just took my sweet time playing it and finally getting to review it. But, from the little research I made, I found that it got more favorable reviews than Cross Edge did.
So read on and see if it really deserves the slightly more favorable reviews!
Well, just based on the premise of this game, the developers might as well have come to my house and taken my money, because it was 100% sure I’d buy it. I mean…a humorous Diablo clone, with a great graphic style and made by Ron Gilbert (one of the Monkey Island creators)? Sounds like awesomeness to me.
Read on and see if it reached my expectations!
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I was planning on making a full review for this game, but I don’t feel like it, so instead I’ll make a shorter impressions post.
DeathSmiles took over a year to get here after coming out in Japan, and frankly I’m surprised it came out here at all. But after seeing that it was selling for 65$ here in Canada (though it did go down at 55$ already, which I still feel is too high), I decided that I would just rent it.
So read on and see what I thought about it!
The first game in the series only made it to America recently via the Wii’s Virtual Console. So we can be pretty happy that the second one came out here in a relatively timely matter.
The original on the N64 was a fun shooter in the veins of Star Fox, but with really confusing controls, since you had to control the character seperately from the cursor that you use to aim at enemies, it was a bit hard to manage (though not impossible once you got the hang of it). So the Wii release should logically correct that minor problem, and at the same time make for a very fun game.
Read on and see if it’s any good!
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