I love Sonic the Hedgehog, a sentence I’m sure will trigger many a reader’s fight or flight response. But I do love Sonic the Hedgehog. Not the movie, it’s okay. Not the character, I’m unsure how to feel about him. Not the franchise, I’m even less sure how to feel about that. Not the 2006 game although it would be both funny and on-brand for me to be into that one. Not the bizarre GBA port, that one isn’t even bad in a funny way. Not the SatAM cartoon although that one gets a high...

Eternal posion is a SRPG develop by Flight-Plan published by banpresto in Japan and Atlus in North America, and I personally think the game is mediocre, but why is that the case? Story: It's probably one of the best thing about this game, it may not be excellent or great but it's good and interesting enough, the character may not be deep but because everyone acts towards everyone else in a passive aggressive way, the character and their interactions suddenly become a lot more...

Shining Force 2 - War of the Gods… what an ambitious name to go with an ambitious hack. Does it live up to its sense of ambition? Let’s take a look What can be said about Shining Force 2 that hasn't already been said? For anyone who enjoys tactical games in the present there is a large chance that your enjoyment of the genre is owed in large part to the masterpieces that came before. Shining force 1 and 2 for example, paved the way for other glorious strategy games to follow. The...

Before we begin!: What you are about to read is my take on the crazy and active Pokemon Trading Card "fad" of 1998-99, precisely its dying days as printing of the Panini figuritas and accompanying album ceased entirely. This is NOT the official TCG, but an officially-licensed take on it based on collecting rather than playing (although we still found ways to make a lot of games out of it, particularly throwing them against the wall for keeps, seeing who could toss them further). I decided...

I return with another game review, this one came out pretty quick, mostly cause the game is pretty short all things considered. Ecstatica is an interesting beast, although I was familiar with this game already, and played the DOS version for a bit, a long time ago that is, I never actually delved into it properly, didn’t even finish it. Now, since the thread about this game got my attention, I said, “Eh why not?” So here we are, goes to show, that if you want me to cover a game, all it has...

“To be this good takes AGES.” Quick ports are a classic tactic by publishers to make some extra dough from their properties. Sometimes, they call them remasters; sometimes, they are republished on the next console generation; and sometimes, they are just emulated copies of nostalgic titles. SEGA isn’t above this. They’ve been rereleasing old titles as far back as the nineties on the SEGA Saturn with the start of the SEGA AGES series. Even to this day, they use this moniker for rereleases of...

I assure you, it wasn’t planned for my next review to be another stealth game, this time I picked the game solely on the name, which caught my attention, this time, I never played it before, so I was going in fresh. As it has become a running gag in my introduction paragraphs, in my infinite wisdom I decided to play the PC version, fully knowing it might be difficult to get the game to run on a modern system, I am yet again being stubborn. And this time… It did show its hand, I lost count...

The "Waffleverse" is a complicated entity made out of both forgotten and forbidden lore. There are some things in there that I simply don't dare revisiting (lest would I want to face some extremely unpleasant memories whose vague "outlines" are enough to put me on edge), whilst others were simply not recorded. It's as if the eternal hand that weaved the tapestry of the mind had simply moved away as they happened, leaving only loosely-connected threads that failed to form into something more...

Here I am, back on my bullshit again. This is a continuation of a previous article, if you want you can read that one as well. There's no intro this time, so let's get roight into the news. THE OUTLIERS Unrelated but this is me if I were a theropod. The following games have not been played yet because I've acquired them fairly recently and I don't have many chances to use my PS3 right now: Midnight Club: Los Angeles: I expect to like this one because, man, I love arcade racing. Also...