“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 my 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...
We’re back, with another batch of beat ‘em ups. As foretold in the last few sentences of the last article (linked for future posterity, even if it is the upload just before this one), these are games that I want to talk about, but aren’t in the running of my top 5, or even top 10 if I ever extend it. They’re just ones that I feel like talking about, even if they didn't make the playoff bench.
What is it about these games that’s so satisfying? The simple nature of them, which enables almost...
“Hey, Octopus? What's one of your favourite genres of video games?” No one has really ever directly asked me that, but it's okay I'll answer anyway.
Beat ‘em ups, man. Beat ‘em ups. You know what I’m talking about. You have like 3 buttons maybe, you hit two of them together to do a special that drains your health or something, you jump around, have maybe a 3 or 4 hit canned combo with your attack button that knocks enemies down, then they get up and you repeat the process maybe 2-3 times...
Okay, I lied. You do know about God Hand, but because of the wrong reasons. It’s this thing right here:
Yeah, totally unexpected, but IGN dropped the ball, because God Hand absolutely kicks ass. I’ve been playing it here and there recently and I can confirm that every claim that the reviewer made at the time is absolutely and completely wrong. That’s not to say that the game is perfect, as it has a lot of quirks that can get annoying, but at the same time add to the charm of the recipe of...
The 00s, an interesting time for gaming, a time in which experimentation was at the forefront, a time in which creators simply wanted to see what they could do.
Enter, the game I am reviewing today, I gotta admit, I have no idea who Marc Ecko is, nor of what Ecko Unlimited is (probably because I am not american), and I pretty much didn’t recognize most of the star cast (outside Adam West), I am bad at recognizing voices, but to be fair, my knowledge of Hip-Hop is mostly non-existent. I had...
Aah game mechanics, the bane of gaming journous and reviewers alike!
I can't rememeber the last time I read an article from non-nieche site that focused on game mechanics unless they were just describing them like a wikipedia article, so I'll talk about Siren again! I could talk about siren unprompted any day, similarly to devil may cry 1&3 it's like everything I like about videogames rolled into one ::eggmanlaugh
I even talked about this thing already in my writing guild's submission but I...
