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All reviewsDragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age2017
4 out of 5 stars[This review is based on the Japanese PS4 version.] I picked up DQXI at a used game shop in Japan for about $25 USD in May 2018, a few months before its US release. I mostly bought the game out of curiosity and a desire to continue improving my Japanese. I was not prepared for this game to surpass God of War and Monster Hunter World to become my favorite of 2018. But here we are. First impressions are a bit…
Unholy Heights2012
3 out of 5 starsI got this game as part of a Humble Bundle package, and I fired it up with the thought of playing for a few minutes just to see what it was like. A couple hours later I turned it off with a vague mixture of fondness and annoyance. Unholy Heights is an apartment sim / tower defense game with some cute ideas and hideous difficulty spikes. It feels like a free-to-play game in that it forces you to "grind" out money for…
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII2013
4 out of 5 starsFinal Fantasy XIII was, in my opinion, a great game, and even a great Final Fantasy game. I know a lot of people disagree with me for legitimate reasons, so I won’t bother defending it anymore. Besides, if you’re here reading about Lightning Returns, you must have thought FFXIII and XIII-2 were at least passable. Otherwise you’re just trolling and I will ask you to leave us in peace. Go back to threatening COD…
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One2011
4 out of 5 starsRatchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction was the game that sold me a Playstation 3. Five years later, my PS3 library has crested 70 games, and ToD is still the game I pull off the shelf when I’m looking for an evening of pure, thoughtless fun. Having bought and played the entire Future series (ToD, QfB, and CiT), I was thrilled when Insomniac announced the follow-up to A Crack in Time…until I saw it in motion.…
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All articlesGood Games that Cheat, Vol. 3
Feb 27, 2014
Good Games that Cheat, Vol. 3 Welcome back. For those of you who missed Vols. one and two , Good Games that Cheat is a little editorial feature that calls out the bullsh*t sections of some truly great games, both old and new. Today, in honor of the recent Lords of Shadow 2 release, we spar with some top-tier brawlers. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Release Date: 2010 Platform: PC, PS3, X360 Where...
Good Games that Cheat, Vol. 2
Jan 26, 2014
Welcome back. For those of you who missed Vol. 1 , Good Games that Cheat is a little editorial feature that calls out the bullsh*t sections of some truly great games, both old and new. This time we’ll start with old. Gradius III Release Date: 1989 (JP) Platform: SNES Where it cheats: The Beans I picked up a Super Famicom a few months back (I currently live in Japan), and I snagged a copy of the...
Final Fantasy X HD Impressions
Jan 2, 2014
I've been living in Japan for the last 18 months, teaching English, learning Japanese, and building up my "import" game collection. Final Fantasy X & X-2 HD came out on Dec. 26, but is still sold out in most stores, even out in the sticks, where I live. Today I found a PS3 copy at last, and, as there have not been many English write ups about this game yet, I'd like to share my experiences so f...
Good Games that Cheat, Vol. 1
Dec 29, 2013
Playing through one of my favorite childhood games recently, I was inspired (read: enraged) to write a little tribute to otherwise good games that don’t always play fair. I’ll start with said childhood favorite, and move on to two more recent games. The Death and Return of Superman Release date: 1994 Platform: SNES Where it cheats: Level 7—Steel Reign Perhaps the first good Superman video game...
Games People Hate: Final Fantasy XIII
Sep 10, 2013
(Originally posted as part of the Games People Hate series of reviews at readingforwriters.tumblr.com ) With Lightning set to Return for one last adventure in just a few months, I thought this would be an appropriate time to review Final Fantasy XIII, the most divisive and reviled entry in a franchise that, over the years, has managed to alienate as many existing fans as draw in new ones. But t...
Sexualizing Violence in Tomb Raider
Aug 12, 2013
Like Batman before her, this year Lara Croft was reimagined in a dark and gritty origin-story franchise-reboot simply titled Tomb Raider. Unlike the new Batman, who believes that a hero must not take human life, Lara’s rebooted character goes from brilliant university student—isolated and weeping over the first deer she must kill so she doesn’t starve to death—to a soulless serial murderer in t...
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