I had what might very properly be called a love/hate relationship with Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, and given that the rest of this article is likely to get a little ranty, I think it’s important to note that there is a “love” part nestled in there as well (see it? It’s right before the backslash). [...]
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Five Things: Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
The Kingdom Hearts series is on, in the US at least, its fifth iteration (six if you count Re:Chain separately… I don’t) across four systems, with another title scheduled to release in January, a 3DS installment already planned, and…maybe? Kingdom Hearts 3 in the works. (That last one is just wishful thinking, but a girl can [...]
Review: F1 2010
This is, quite simply, the best F1 game since Geoff Crammond’s rightly revered Grand Prix series concluded with GP4 back in 2002. And as someone who has enjoyed those particular games – and considered them utterly peerless – for 18 years now, I don’t say that lightly. F1 2010 is occasionally a tad rough around the edges, but is still frankly brilliant, and with F1 2011 already confirmed and F1 2012 very likely, both from the same team, it would seem that Formula One games are finally back in very safe hands.
Ten Things: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands/Muramasa: The Demon Blade
(Note: I really did write this whole thing longhand, in my little Mario notebook, and I’ve tried to stick to the original draft to capture that feeling… minor edits only.) I usually start off each podcast with a tangent, and I have a good one to kick off this installment of the column as well. [...]
Five Things: Half-Minute Hero
SEX JOKE LOLZ! …Okay, now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, let me explain what this game actually is. Half-Minute Hero is bizarre, and I say that lovingly. I’ve never played a game quite like it, and for that reason, it’s actually a bit difficult to explain in a way that makes any [...]
Five Things: Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
Lunar is another one of those series I never actually got around to playing when it was actually released. Thankfully, though, Sony seems to have decided that nostalgia is an awesome market to be tapped, and between the PSP re-releases of things I either never played in the first place (Lunar, the original Persona) or [...]
Five Things: God of War
I know what you’re thinking right now, and it is this: ZOMG HOW HAVE YOU NOT PLAYED GOD OF WAR UNTIL NOW KRATOS IS MADE OF EPIC WIN AND ALSO THERE ARE BOOBS!! ….well, you may not be thinking precisely that, but I bet it’s relatively close. And I admit, the fact that the first [...]
Five Things: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
I played Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on the PS2, months after it had already been released on the Wii, because I didn’t want to deal with waggle controls. This is a common theme with me, and demonstrates my overwhelming apathy (bordering, in fact, on antipathy) regarding the new generation of motion-sensitive gaming; Kinect and Move may [...]
