This is a quaint little game about climbing a cyclops like an oak tree and putting out its single eye with the stab of a fiery dagger. The added power of a PC cleans up the graphics a bit at the edges, and new hotkeys …Read more »
In 1977, a microscopic rural village (population: 32 and falling fast) is beset by a mysterious dictator. Naming itself The King, this unseen—and perhaps supernatural?—tormentor issues edicts to the townsfolk, demanding that they overcome a series of sadistic trials to keep their friends and family …Read more »
Naota's got it rough. Robots and aliens and laser guns, the usual anime protagonist fare. That’s all there, front and center, but he’s got other problems. Nobody wants to pay attention to him. Nobody gives him any credit. He’s smarter than every adult around him. …Read more »
As someone who suffers the odd Bloody Mary nightmare, Corpse Party ’s opening scene holds an immediate resonance. A chanting ritual deposits a group of fun loving high school students in a collapsing school created by the psychic suffering of four murdered children. There is …Read more »
Guardian Heroes , just about the last Treasure game without a retro remake, is finally on Xbox Live Arcade. With its release I figure we’re pretty much done with companies selling our nostalgia back to us. Shut off the Virtual Console (it was limping along …Read more »
You can say Dark Souls is “hard,” the whole Internet has, but let’s not stop there. Let’s call Dark Souls particular. Let’s call it fussy. It requires patience. Sometimes it requires too much patience: it’s ponderous. Sometimes calling it ponderous is giving it too much …Read more »
Some of your favorite Japanese games crib from Western myth. Sephiroth, your favorite bad guy, takes his name from Kabbalah. The Shin Megami Tensei games make a living out of snatching up any mythological figures they can get their hands on, mostly because the names …Read more »
Eccentric games with quirky conceits are everywhere and they are almost unilaterally terrible. Even the ones who exude limitlessly bizarre charm ( Deadly Premonition ) mire themselves in gameplay that vacillates from boring to unbearable. These games are not good. That is why when a …Read more »
Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the only games where I’ve rolled a clock all the way up to 99 hours, 59 minutes. I mastered every job and saw every side-quest. I relished in its simple five-man combat squads and engrossing skill lists. I loved …Read more »
Action-adventure games like Zelda have hit a rut recently. They're suffused with time-stretching content and yet contain little in the way of actually compelling gameplay. They stretch their quests over dozens of hours and force you to repeat the same puzzles ad infinitum to pad …Read more »
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