Shadow Hearts Covenant was released in 2004 as sequel to Shadow Hearts in Japan it was called Shadow hearts 2, It was develop by Sacnoth and Published by Midway in North America.
A sequel Ideally should expend everything that the original had, and this game attempts that with better Graphics, Longer game around 40 hours when the Original was only 20 Hours, more voice acting and a improved gameplay.
The original Shadow hearts was released very early in the PS2 life's cycle in 2001, and you...
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The Dark Knight faces his greatest challenge yet: Subpar game development!
It's hard to think of any game as soul crushing as Dark Tomorrow. Touted in early promotional material as a hyper-ambitious title offering an open-world Gotham with a faithful story penned by Final Fantasy writer Kenji Tarada and veteran Batman scribe Scott Peterson, this was meant to be THE definitive Batman experience. Unfortunately for developers Kemco and HotGen (who ported the game to Xbox), the initial concept...
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As someone who’s proudly stomped their way through Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee I went into Godzilla: Unleashed hoping for more city-leveling and a more fleshed-out roster. And oh boy, did it deliver—just not always in the way I expected. This isn’t the most polished Godzilla game. If we're being totally honest, it’s more of a glitchy free-for-all held together with duct tape, naive ambition, and a lot of fan service. And I kind of love it for that.
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Disclaimer, this review was made in 2 years ago (Tho I slightly modify) it modify it when the fan translation just had came out, one week ago I made a PS1 JRPG retrospective and mentioned this game, and the fact I made a review about it.
Ecsaform was released in 1999 for the PS1, however we westerners only had the chance to play recently with a fan patch made available in june of 2023
When I begun playing it, I had my expectations really low, I was thinking Ecsaform would be a bad game...
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Greetings, and welcome to the first (and possibly last) edition of RGT at the Movies! Brought to you by Strategist and ATenderLad. This review came about after having a discussion about terrible video game movies in the comments of the movie article. That late night shit-talk was the genesis of this incredible joint effort. RGT members get two reviews for the price of one! For the cheap price of 100 M.Bison dollars, you can acquire this high quality review written by RGT’s best video game...
Resident Evil 4- Perennial lightning in a bottle.
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Eternal poison is a SRPG developed by Flight-Plan and 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...
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...
Tales of Symphonia
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Digimon World- Misunderstood Masterpiece
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Gameplay: A Miniature-Sized Monster Brawler
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I return to you, with another movie article, since people liked the previous one, might as well do it again, although this time, I don’t have a story with this movie, this was my first time watching it.
This movie has a reputation alright, and I was driven to watch it out of sheer curiosity, asking myself a simple question, is it really that bad?
So yeah, I won’t hold you anymore, I present to you, a glorified feature length ad.
What’s the Deal With The Wizard?
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Is there anything more nostalgic than a good old isometric action RPG? For me, the answer is ‘not many things’; I love me some classic dungeon crawler button mashers. Slinging some abilities around, spamming the health potion button like my, well, life depended on it; taking every possible chance to get enemies stuck on something so I could safely bombard them. That's the real stuff, right there. It’s a genre I really cut my teeth on way back when, and one that really guided me on my gaming...
I’ve been gaming for as long as I remember, with my journey beginning at the 3rd generation, starting with Super Mario Bros, Duckhunt and Wild Gunmen as my three first games I’ve ever played. I’ve since moved on to the Mega Drive, then the PSX, followed by the PS2 then continued by a very shaky relationship with the 7th gen that I later managed to reconcile with.
Beyond all this, we arrive at the 8th generation, the gen I’ve had the hardest time bonding with if we’re strictly talking only...
Buckle up, this’ll be a (short) long one. We’ll be here for a while.
Can something be still said about the 1993 fever dream that was the Mario film? You’ve heard the jokes about how it randomly starts with… a Jurassic history lesson, yes really, you’ve heard the jokes about the two Italians not being played actual Italians, you heard the Mario Mario, the bob-omb-monkey, the implied incest (yes, really) and you also probably seen the goombas, if not, God help you. Heck, you’ve likely also...
The 80s, as a zoomer, to me its nothing but a time of legends, of atrocious fashion sense, of fantastic Tv-shows, but most importantly, and the subject of today’s article, of amazing movies.
I still remember stumbling upon this little gem after I was returning home with my dad, and we decided to watch a movie, so we got some pizza, we went to the shady pira- *ahem* reputable DVD store, and he allowed me to go and look at the covers and pick whichever caught my eye.
The rest as they say, is...
Many Capcom franchises have, over the years, fallen to the wayside. It’s unavoidable I think when you have so many. For every Resident Evil, there’s a Dino Crisis. For every Devil May Cry, there’s a Maximo. And for every Street Fighter, there’s a Final Fight.
Final Fight is far from the most suffering Capcom franchise of course, and there is one that has more greatly suffered and famously been more mismanaged across the years. It used to be one of their flagships, having started all the way...
Shotgun: A Lead-Laden Love Affair
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Their solution was to ship me some 200 miles south to my dad's new home, which was located on a place of such haunting natural beauty that it even...
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Being a visual medium, video games are chock-a-block with movie references, inspirations, and sometimes downright theft. At some point, movies were due to return the favor. Super Mario Bros. (1993) was a rough start to that relationship - like having a first date at your colonoscopy - but Mortal Kombat (1995) saw Paul W.S. Anderson direct the first hit video game movie, making several times it's budget. The turn of the...
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