(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 […]
So, as for what I’ve been playing lately: lots of things, but I’ll not get ahead of myself. I decided to take a risk on The Earth Defense Force 2 (The Chikyuu Boeigun 2), the sequel to perhaps the best-regarded original Simple 2000 series game so far. And at this point, it’s definitely the best […]
I finished Resident Evil 4 on Sunday. It was a pretty flat, unmemorable experience for me, for the most part, just because it went so easy on me. The Mercenaries subgame shows just how versatile and developed the mechanics are for skill-based play, but those in charge of the game generally chose not to exercise […]
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. […]