Reviews

Don't worry, I'm not crazy... at least, I don't think so "They actually did it!", I exclaimed. As soon as I saw the opening scene and played the first 20 minutes of the game, my jaw dropped. I don't know what happened, but Bloober Team, against all odds, managed to make one of the greatest remakes of all time and put Silent Hill back on the road to recovery. Following the disappointing releases of Downpour and Book of Memories, along with the subpar HD ports of Silent Hill 2 and 3, many...

Have you ever played a game where you could sense its untapped potential and wished it had a better development budget? For me, The Caligula Effect: Overdose is that game. It's a JRPG remake of The Caligula Effect, developed by Historia and published by FuRyu and NIS America (the original was developed by Aquria and published by Atlus). The story is written by Tadashi Satomi, known for his work on Persona 1 and Persona 2. The term "Caligula Effect" refers to the desire to do forbidden...

How Can a Single Letter Mean So Much? D was a strange FMV-based game for PlayStation that didn’t get much attention or very good reviews. D-2 is a spiritual successor to that game with more gameplay and stunning visuals, but it still has its fair share of issues. This is by far one of the strangest games I have ever played, and being my first Dreamcast game, it helped put the system into perspective. You play as a woman named Laura Parton, who is a flight attendant and is on a plane that...

INTRODUCTION In 2002, 2 years after the launch of the legendary PS2, two Disney' employees were talking in an elevator. Until one of these employees comes up with a crazy idea... "What if we combined Disney characters with Final Fantasy characters and made a game about it?". Well... although the idea may seem strange, that's where one of the best JRPG franchises of all time was born... Kingdom Hearts. STORY On an isolated island called Destiny Islands, 3 young people live. These are Sora...

Welcome to the first installment of From The Depths, where I get my figurative tentacles all over something obscure from the far and deep waters of the past (get it? It took me ten seconds to think of this). These will be one-off reviews of specific games I’ve encountered and dragged up that I feel deserve to see the light of day; either because they're forgotten but great, or forgotten because they're terrible. Who knows what's hidden behind the shifting tides of time, ebbing underneath the...