As if to atone for the mixed bag of last year’s fighting game movies, 2012 is being bombarded with tons of new fighting games. Seriously, look at the list of things released/to be released this year: Soul Calibur V , Street Fighter X Tekken , …Read more »
It may not be immediately apparent, but for all the seemingly minor iterations King of Fighters has gone through over the years, it is actually a deeply sophisticated series. Sure, it may have garnered a bit of flak for having reused so many of the …Read more »
As someone who suffers the odd Bloody Mary nightmare, Corpse Party ’s opening scene holds an immediate resonance. A chanting ritual deposits a group of fun loving high school students in a collapsing school created by the psychic suffering of four murdered children. There is …Read more »
Guardian Heroes , just about the last Treasure game without a retro remake, is finally on Xbox Live Arcade. With its release I figure we’re pretty much done with companies selling our nostalgia back to us. Shut off the Virtual Console (it was limping along …Read more »
Time heals all wounds. In 1987, during the height of Nintendo's iron grip on the gaming populace, a publisher by the name of Rainbow Arts released Great Giana Sisters —a blatant, shameless clone of Super Mario Bros.— for the Commodore 64 and a multitude of …Read more »
The live-action Tekken will go down in my book as a firm reminder of how filmmakers, if not people in general, aren’t taking chances any more. The much-hyped big screen take on the popular Namco fighting game franchise had the opportunity to do something to …Read more »
You can say Dark Souls is “hard,” the whole Internet has, but let’s not stop there. Let’s call Dark Souls particular. Let’s call it fussy. It requires patience. Sometimes it requires too much patience: it’s ponderous. Sometimes calling it ponderous is giving it too much …Read more »
Kirby Mass Attack is something. If that sounds luke warm it's because that is pretty much precisely the temperature of my feelings. Whenever things seemed to be taking a turn for the boring, I would either unlock a fun mini-game or there'd be some interesting …Read more »
Hironobu Sakaguchi’s announced return to RPG creation via the newly formed Mistwalker Studio in 2004 was much rejoiced by those who believed at the time that Square Enix was a sinking ship, and sought the father of Final Fantasy ’s new company to bring back …Read more »
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D , the game where you can't erase your save data, where you are doomed for all eternity to stare at the high scores of whoever pwnt your copy first—yes, it's true, but Capcom has already heard everyone loud and clear …Read more »
Eccentric games with quirky conceits are everywhere and they are almost unilaterally terrible. Even the ones who exude limitlessly bizarre charm ( Deadly Premonition ) mire themselves in gameplay that vacillates from boring to unbearable. These games are not good. That is why when a …Read more »
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D could mean very different things depending on who and how old you are. To me, it's the latest reincarnation of an N64 game I hated myself over when I was 13 because I always got sidetracked and …Read more »
For years, famed 2D shooting game developer Cave had been content to leave its work in Japanese arcades. It was a minor tragedy that these kings of an unpopular genre had no desire to leave their native land, but there it was. You’d have to …Read more »
I'll confess right now: I never played the original version of Pokémon Gold and Silver , and my reasons for not doing so are phenomenally dumb. I was super pumped for Red and Blue when they came out back in the day, but got hung …Read more »
If there's ever been a game with more half-baked ideas than Last Rebellion , I don't want to know. It sounds cute on the surface. A single character RPG, persistent buffs that raise your stats to absurd levels, a combo system where every part of …Read more »
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