It’s Mario. It’s awesome. Do I really need to say more?
Okay, I guess saying just that is really not doing this game justice, since there’s actually a lot to say about it. Its original game design philosophy is something to be commended and that’s what I want to talk about here.
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Ah the Sonic cylce: see the game’s reveal trailer, get excited thinking “finally, THIS is the game that will make Sonic be good again”, see some gameplay videos and think “this doesn’t look too bad!” and then play the game and realize it’s terrible as always. It happened with every Sonic game. EVEN Black Knight where they gave Sonic a sword had a lot of people thinking that it would be the game to revive Sonic.
Well, before actually playing the game, I was planning on coming into this review saying “Hey guys, this new Sonic games is bad as usual, don’t buy it, ‘k?”. But somehow I can’t do that, because then I’d be lying.
Read on and see what Generations did right with the Sonic franchise… FINALLY!
Kirby’s been a bit left on the backburner for Nintendo in the last few years on consoles. Last year we DID get Kirby’s Epic Yarn, which was a random game with the Kirby franchise being plugged into it and, while it was a solid game, it failed to meet expectations in general and it most definitely didn’t have much of a Kirby feel to it. Otherwise, Kirby’s been confined to handhelds since 2000′s Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. So it’s been a long time waiting to finally get true Kirby action back on consoles.
I was quite hyped for this, so… does it hold up to the hype? It’s been fairly well spoken for by now, but I just want to give my own perspective on it since opinions have been all over the place.
Is it the return of Kirby that people have been wanting for so long? Read on and see!
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I wasn’t sure if I was going to review this at all, for the same reason I didn’t review OoT3D. In the case of OoT3D… what would be the point? Everyone who can call themselves a gamer has played that glorious game at least once in their lives, and already know if they like it or not. There’s literally nothing I can say about OoT3D that hasn’t been said billions of times already. It’s a game that shouldn’t be reviewed.
But then I figured that Star Fox 64, while quite popular in its own time, is currently pretty much only know for “Do a barrel roll!” and “Can’t let you do that, Star Fox!”, basically just being a cheap meme machine. So… what the heck, let’s review it!
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A game based on an old religious book (the Book of Enoch)… sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Yeah, if you only told me that, I never would have even looked at El Shaddai, but after playing the demo, I was pretty excited to check it out.
Even after playing the demo, I wasn’t fully sure what to expect so… read on and see if I ended up enjoying it or not!
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This is actually strange. I never liked the original Elevator Action. None of the versions I played of it ended up being enjoyable to me… The controls are always stiff and hard to get a good hang of, and make a potentially good game not really good at all. Yet, when I saw this was coming out, I really wanted to try it out.
I sort of reluctantly bought it when it came out, and… well, read on to see what I thought about it! (This should be quick)
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Last year I wrote a positive review for a fun little indie game called Recettear, a quirky Action-RPG made by EasyGameStation (localized by Carpe Fulgur 3 years after the japanese release) where the main goal was to actually manage a standard JRPG store (basically ripping off people like crazy in the process). While Recettear was their first game officially released in America, they seem to have a few more games in Japan (though some of those are fan-games). Chantelise is a game they actually made before Recettear. It’s another quirky Action-RPG, on that features a few similarities to Recettear, but more than enough to feel completely different.
So read on and see if this one has charmed me as much as Recettear did last year!
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I don’t frequently go into the “Indie Game” isle of my local downloadable game service, but this is one that caught my eye.
A classic-style console/JRPG with not-so-serious stories and 8/16-bit graphics? That’s fairly interesting. Now I was originally planning on reviewing both games separately, but Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII are nearly identical, so I’ll be mixing them up here.
Read on and see if your 3$ is worth spending!
I’m not really well-versed ot the Warhammer 40000 universe. All I know is that it’s basically a standard fantasy world, but with spaceships! But I checked out Kill Team anyways (thanks Pat!).
So read on and see if someone who knows nothing of WH40K enjoyed a very quick look at said universe!
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Sometimes it’s a great feeling to play a low-budget game that’s made solely with the idea of being fun to play, rather than concentrating on pointless stuff like graphics and story. And that’s what EDF is all about.
The previous game in the series, Earth Defense Force 2017, was a ton of fun, even though it was clearly made with a 2 dollar budget.
Let’s check it out and see how this one holds up, shall we?
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