For what hopefully represents the last of my experimental purchases for a long, long while to come, I picked up a copy of Sega’s rather obscure PS2 slash-em-up Blood Will Tell. duckroll ordered a copy during Play-Asia’s February sale, and delivered me enough good impressions about it that I decided to try it out. I’d […]
My copy of Oneechanbara 2 arrived the day before yesterday. I’ve only played it briefly, but enough to give some impressions. Really, it’s the same thing as the first game, but better-executed. It looks and feels much, much better. Like Oneechanbara, most of the effort was clearly spent on making the characters appealing and fun […]
I’ve finally managed to put some time in with Double Dragon Advance, after finding myself impressed with it on release and tracking it down two years later. I do believe I’ve found in it one of my favorite beat ’em ups ever, and a game that remedies most of the problems common in its genre. […]
Finished up Gothic today, with about 23 hours on the game clock (and at least a third again as much spent on retries). My initial impressions of it were pretty misleading, as right after the long and completely nonlinear first chapter, the game’s structure becomes completely linear. After that point the game is still strung […]
I purchased Resident Evil 4 at the same time as Kessen III (yay for tiny windfalls) and I’ve been playing that steadily since. I haven’t paid attention to the multipage official threads for the game on the usual forums, but I did catch wind of lots of talk about it being “revolutionary” and so on. […]