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Review – 198X
I am, if nothing else, very sentimental about video games. A lot of my memories are interlocked with the games I was playing at the time and the simple mention of certain titles can trigger feelings from times gone by. I’ve always devoted a portion of myself to my favourite hobby, so I’m often introspective about it. I was too…
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Review – Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered
Video games haven’t been kind to the Ghostbusters. Few have breached the threshold of mediocre and some, like the NES version of the first game, are among the worst games I’ve ever played. It doesn’t make much sense, the depiction of ghost busting as a profession should make it ripe for video game adaptations, but more often than not, they…
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Review – Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
I can’t account for my fascination with the character of Travis Touchdown. He’s a womanizing, awkward, selfish, and overall pathetic character, but I find him difficult to fully hate. Even in terms of his characterization, he’s inconsistently written to the point where it’s sometimes hard to peg whether his pseudo-intellectual musings on the topic of bloodlust are sincere, or just…
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Review – Jurassic Park (SNES)
Jurassic Park is one of those really weird licensing situations. On one hand, the movie really isn’t for children, while on the other hand, marketers were extremely quick to rush out all sorts of toys and action figures for it. It’s sort of like Star Wars, especially when you consider the sheer marketing power of the franchise. The only difference…
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Review – Yomawari: Night Alone
I’m not so sure about horror games, anymore. Back in my younger days, I was easily frightened by the Resident Evil series. Heck, I remember dealing with frequent nightmares after the release of the Gamecube remake of the original game in the series. These days, however, I’m too confident in my capabilities in video games and too analytical of gameplay…
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Review – Celeste
It dawned on me recently that a lot of the games I played this year didn’t actually come out in 2018. I mean, you can look back through the blog and get a good account of what I played through; not a lot of new releases. Hell, I spent the first month of the year playing the early Elder Scrolls…
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Review – The Messenger
The pixel art style was once rather contentious. Anecdotally, many of the complaints I heard were that it was simply a ploy to try and sucker people who are easily swayed my nostalgia. That may have once been the case, but these days, the emulation of low resolution sprite art seems to more frequently be employed as a way of…
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Review – The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge
As with any holiday, I like to start playing games with thematic content around the Christmas Holidays. Hallowe’en has a staggering number of options, considering every horror game fits the bill, but for Christmas, what do you go to? I’ve been able to assemble a decent playlist this year, which I need to dive straight into, since they’ll be competing…
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Review – Earthbound Beginnings
It’s tough to be a fan of Earthbound. The series has been almost aggressively neglected by Nintendo, despite having an incredibly dedicated fanbase. Ask any fan how long they’ve been waiting for an official Mother 3 localization, and with eyes that still twinkle with hope, they’ll probably tell you some multitude of years. It’s been, over a decade since Mother…
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Review – Snake’s Revenge
It seems that, these days, the once adored NES port of Metal Gear is often looked on less fondly than it once was. A reputation tarnished, perhaps by the rediscovery of the MSX version by western audience. The NES exclusive follow-up, Snake’s Revenge, on the other hand, has always maintained a less-than-stellar reputation. Developed as an NES-only sequel and targeted…
