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As my mind has grown more logical over the course of my life, one of the questions I pondered was how aware developers are when they make a bad game. It’s easy to answer that for games based on intellectual properties, because kids will want a SpongeBob Squarepants game because kids will want anything based on SpongeBob Squarepants. No, I’m talking about the games that are their own original property, that end up…
Perhaps the most harrowing and surprising thing about Donkey Kong for the Game Boy was, since its release, is that most people don’t know just what this game is for the DK series. It tricks you at the beginning by presenting the four levels from the original arcade in a gesture that makes you think “ok, so this is just a regular ass arcade port to portable gaming.” But then, after you crash Donkey Kong down a…
As many iterations and spinoffs that were made from the delightfully bizarre world of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , American McGee’s Alice was truly unique at the time. Though the gameplay consisted of little more than awkward platforming, the gothic turn in the art style breathed new life in the notion of video games being art, and brought forth a new age of delightfully darker versions of…
If you own a 3DS and have access to wireless internet right now, you basically have to have 3D Classics: Excitebike on your system right now. Because for now until July 7th, it’s free. Save the $5.99, and get yourself this tentatively free title in celebration of the arrival of the eShop. But if you are reading this article right now post 7/7/11, you should still get this re-release of the NES classic. Why? Because…
In a move that is both appropriate for the eventual release of the next portable Zelda adventure, Ocarina of Time 3D, and for Nintendo to dig into the franchise's 25th anniversary, the Game Boy Color remake of the original masterpiece is here on the 3DS eShop. The idea of Link exploring a non-Hyrule land here hasn't been the first time. But even when you compare it to something like Majora's Mask, the island our…
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For games like Hunted: The Demon's Forge, it really makes me have to re-evaluate what it means to play a new game based on a popular older one. After all, when you have a game like this that essentially takes the combat system of Gears of War and gives it a fantasy genre flavor, how could it not at least be great? But the thing is, Hunted: The Demon's Forge is actually pretty mediocre; even if it did imitate from…
It was 1989, back when Mario still hadn’t gone steady with Princess Peach and was apparently saving other damsels in distress. Long before Daisy became the “other girl” character in the Mario sport/Kart/Party games, she was who Mario was trying to save in his first portable adventure. And now, for your legal pleasure and four dollars, you can revisit this odd duck in the series on the 3DS eShop. As…
It's good to know that even when Atlus spent some time focused on bringing the Trauma Center series to the Wii that they were able to bring it back to the DS. It's great because it reminds fans how much better the Trauma Center experience is on the precise touch-screen DS than the Wii's IR controls. Atlus managed to also bring some of the improvements made in the Wii sequels (better drawn characters, new tools like…
