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.

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jobocan Console, Games, Review, ps3

The Disgaea series is probably my favorite RPG series, or at least one of my favorites. The characters, the stories, the humor and the gameplay are all top-notch. Here, you have a Disgaea game that removes any gameplay aspect from the other games, and instead becomes a visual novel, where you basically just read your way through, changing the events with dialogue choices.

This is a rather weird choice. While the visual novel genre is HUGE in Japan, it barely has a fanbase at all in America, and as such will only appeal to hardcore fans of the series, and nothing else, but I’m pleased, if not REALLY surprised, that they released it here anyways.

So let’s go and see if the huge change of gameplay is any good!
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jobocan Games, Handheld, Review, psp

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?

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jobocan Console, Games, Review, ps3

This is a game that was supposed to come out last year. Just before release, it was suddenly delayed, and at the same time they announced that the game’s genre would change from an Action RPG to a traditional turn-based RPG. I’m not sure of the reason behind this choice, but after that I thought the game would never come. It did end up coming though.

So was it worth the wait, or should it have just been cancelled?

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Originally developed by pretty much unknown developer Ride On, Nippon Ichi America brings us Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida, which was renamed “Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What did I do to deserve this?”. The fun 8-bit-looking graphics and the random title reminiscent of oldschool Batman reeled me in, and the possibly fun gameplay and concept (being the bad guy trying to kill heroes) made me quite interested.

This is Ride On’s third game. The first was a Darius port on GBA, and the other was a Beat ‘em Up featuring maids with guns(from the Simple 2000 series). Their track record is short and not very inspiring, but Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida definitely looks interesting.

So with an english demo out (there was a demo before on the japanese PSN), we can see if it’s actually any good.

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jobocan Games, Handheld, Preview, demo, impressions, psp

So this game comes out in 2 days. And here I am with a review just before that. At first I was happy because I thought ot myself “Hey, this will be an exclusive review!”, but no, there have been reviews for over a year for this game already. Why? Well, it’s a completely random story. It came out in Japan in July of 2007. Then NISA decided to bring it over to America. So after a little while, the game was pretty much done and a release date was set. At an Anime Expo, NISA was actually selling copies of the complete game. And then… It was delayed. Multiple times. Some reviewers got a hold of it though, and reviewed it at that time. After a year of the game constantly getting pushed back for unknown reasons. Partly due to Jaleco leaving the gaming business and such… But anyways, it was a bit random and reviews have been up for a long time, and ROMs were leaked and all. So frankly it was pretty much ignored since a lot of people could already play it.

But now it’s officially coming out, and I’m bringing you the not-so-exclusive scoop on it!

Read on and see if it was worth all that wait after having reviews out for so damn long or not.
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jobocan Games, Handheld, Review, ds

I’m a bit late on this one, but here goes.

Disgaea was an incredible game on the PS2.  Sporting cool 2D graphics, a great story, incredible characters, and really fun gameplay, it was a must-have on the PS2… Too bad it was basically ignored by the general populace.

This is the second incarnation of the game on handheld consoles. It was on the PSP last year, and now it’s released on the technologically inferior Nintendo DS.
Can the DS handle the awesomeness? Or does the DS’ limitations make the game lame?

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