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 […]
I finally cleared Capcom’s latest entry in the Onimusha series, and I can definitely see why they’re dropping the number and going with “new” (shin) instead. While the game shares many similarities in style and basic templates with its predessesors, the execution is almost completely different this time around.
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. […]
I rented Red Ninja over the weekend, and I’ve played through the tutorial and the first level and a half or so. And while I really wanted to give the game as much of a fair shot as possible, and hoped that the reviews really were missing something about the game that would turn it […]