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Final Fantasy IV: Complete Collection

Final Fantasy II had a massive impact on me as a gamer. I don’t know if I would attribute it to any one specific aspect, but the combination of the right hardware with the right game at the right time in my life positioned it as a turning point for me. Final Fantasy II opened me up to other facets of gaming beyond my limited desire to see the kill screen or end credits. With this entry in the franchise, which was one of my first games to play on the Super Nintendo, I was made aware of ...

Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

The PSP is a hotbed for remakes and re-releases of classic RPGs, especially those developed for the Asian market. Falcom and Xseed Games are the biggest players in this regard and their latest release, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is no different. Having already been released in Japan back in 2006, this is the first game in the series to reach these shores in over four years. Although it takes a while for the core story to develop, if you’re a fan of 16-bit era JRPGs, you ...

(PSN) Hoard

There’s two things I tend to look for in any game, regardless of it’s genre. First is how well suited it is for the platform it’s been released on. Portable, console, PC, or mobile, it needs to suit both the controls and the needs of said platform. Second, is how much staying power it has. It doesn’t matter if it’s an engrossing 40-hour epic RPG or quick, 60 second mini-games, it needs to reach out to the player in a way that brings them back, again and again. ...

(PSN) TNT Racers

The Kart racing genre hasn’t been that much of a focal point for quite some time. These types of games were once all the rage during the 90s, but now the release schedule is fairly void of the genre. The latest title that hopes to rekindle interest is TNT Racers, a quirky RC-Car game that offers plenty of different modes, but still ends up missing a few key pieces in order to make it a really enjoyable experience. TNT Racers puts you in a number of different toy-looking cars as you ...

Patapon 3

*Please note that because of the PSN shutdown of April/May 2011 and the inability to access the PlayStation Store in order to redeem the game’s required Online Entitlement Voucher, we could not review the multiplayer components of Patapon 3. When looking back at the first Patapon game, many people would have been hard pressed to assume that a game which combined rhythm based mechanics with RPG and strategy elements would become a staple franchise in the life of Sony’s ...

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

The turned based strategy genre hasn’t had a lot of love over the years. Yes, we get the odd gem here and there, but never a consistent stream of releases to keep long time fans occupied as well as bringing newcomers to the fold. When such a game does come along, it can be quite refreshing and even more so if it manages to introduce the genre to the uninitiated gamer. Square-Enix’s latest PSP release is Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together; a remake of the classic 1990s Super ...

Ys I & II Chronicles

The last seven months have been quite interesting for publisher XSEED. Since August of 2010, they have released four games in the Ys series, with the most recent being a remake of the first two in a collection entitled Ys I & II Chronicles. For games over twenty years old, it’s nice to get to see how the series started, but it also shows that sometimes the past is better left in the annuals of gaming history. For the unfamilar, the Ys series chronicles the various adventures of ...

Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy

Square-Enix’s Dissidia: Final Fantasy was the true definition of appeasing their hard-core fans. It’s a tossed salad of memorable pieces from previous Final Fantasy games and the end result was a mash-up RPG/Fighter that was regarded as either a success or a failure depending on which side of the coin you fell on. With Dissidia 012: Duodecim Final Fantasy, the hope was to give you more content and maybe address some of the issues that plagued the first; while they do give you a ...

(Minis) SHIFT extended

Sony’s Minis brand of games often go unnoticed, be it the weak marketing they get or the stigma of being priced higher than they should be. There are those rare occasions where one really stands out, yet suffers from one or both of the afore-mentioned issues. The latest release under the Minis label is Shift Extended, an extremely simple puzzle game that is quick to learn, offers quite a bit of content, but is hampered by one glaring problem that will ultimately be the reason so many ...

Lord of Arcana

Hungry for action, carnage, power and destruction? Feeling the call of the hunt coursing through your veins? Can you hear the taunt of otherworldly arcane magic? Check, check and check, Lord of Arcana features all that and more. The only question left is, is it truly for you? Published by Square-Enix and developed by Access Games, Lord of Arcana can best be summed up as a blend between an action RPG and a hack and slasher. Though the developer has previously delved into the vaguely defined ...

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