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 finished Romancing SaGa (for PS2) over the weekend with a final game time of about forty-five hours. I chose to play it because I wanted to challenge the game to explain itself well enough to me for me to enjoy playing it, and because I wanted to challenge myself to really enjoy a SaGa […]
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 suppose I could start calling these post-mortems of mine “reviews,” as that’s what they’ve been shaping up to be lately. I’m not sure if I like calling them that, as they don’t match the usual description…but “reviews” what they usually end up as. So!) I finished Fatal Frame II over the weekend, after several […]
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 […]