Many like to boil Shenmue down to an open-world adventure game. Fundamentally they wouldn't be wrong, but it undermines the title's ambition. What makes the…
Leading up to the Chains of Promathia expansion, I’d say Final Fantasy XI's story is decent at best. The original plot per starting nation focuses…
I have fond and terrible memories of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. Every night for what felt like a month, I dedicated hours at a…
Some games don’t need complicated graphics. The basic idea of Lup Salad’s puzzles could be achieved on something slightly more powerful than a Atari 2600.…
Most people like to hate Final Fantasy XIII, but it’s an alright game. It’s nothing amazing, just an average entry in the franchise. I would…
I have a lot of respect for HAL Laboratory. They basically reworked the rules of the fighting game genre in Super Smash Bros. The fundamentals…
I’m not a stickler for emulation. Scaling, filtering, pixel counts or whatever doesn’t mean much to me. As long as it runs reasonably well, I’m…
Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment is basically a single player game set in a fake MMORPG and it does a pretty convincing job of building…
I was at the height of my Nintendo fandom between 2004 and 2008. I believed in and supported the blue ocean strategy, which entailed making…
Mario Kart DS started the tradition of including retro courses in each new release, but it wasn’t the first in the series to do so.…