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Massive Chalice isn't afraid to tell you where it comes from. Light strategy base-building combined with small team, class-based tactical combat? The abilities and equipment of your warriors is determined by research and training performed at the base and each action takes a certain amount of time to complete, during which you might be confronted with a number of attacks, only one of which your elite team can…
I'm not a big fan of the Assassin's Creed franchise. I only played 2 previously, and while I had some good times, I didn't finish it and obviously didn't play anything between then and now. So, if you're a devotee of the series, this review isn't for you. However, if you're more like me and were interested in seeing whether this franchise has matured with age, I would say that the answer is mostly no. And if you're…
Ace Combat is kind of a weird series. It's basically the only place one can go to on consoles for dogfighting action, but it has traditionally taken place on weird, half-explained fantasy worlds and followed standard military plots that were vague on the sorts of specifics that would be needed to make those worlds memorable. In keeping with that not-quite-realistic approach, Ace Combat games give players real-life…
Ace Combat is kind of a weird series. It's basically the only place one can go to on consoles for dogfighting action, but it has traditionally taken place on weird, half-explained fantasy worlds and followed standard military plots that were vague on the sorts of specifics that would be needed to make those worlds memorable. In keeping with that not-quite-realistic approach, Ace Combat games give players real-life…
If you need to be told that the space fighter sim genre has fallen on hard times lately, you don't need to read this review. Either you need to go back and play some of the older games in the genre, or you're not interested and DarkStar One was never going to be a game for you. For the rest of you who remain, Darkstar One starts with some promise. Space appears to be your oyster - you can travel in any direction,…
Sequence is billed as the first rhythm-game RPG, which is, while technically accurate, a title that'll probably lead to more disappointment than anything else. It really is an RPG in only the thinnest sense. It has a story, but its inventory management/equipment aspect feels mostly tacked on and it probably would have been a better game without them. The setup goes like this. You're "Ky" (is that what kids named…
Drakensang: The River of TIme is the prequel to the apparently-fairly-popular-but-definitely-budget Drakensang: The Dark Eye. Playing the original game factors not at all into the enjoyment of this game, though it's still a decent deal for the price if you're interested. Aside from the presence of two characters present (one post-mortem) in the Dark Eye, there is very little to connect the two episodes. While there…
A fantasy 4x game is something I've been keen on for a very long time. Perhaps it's just my American, Manichean point of view, but there's something lacking in a game where the only reason that you should take over the world and the other guy should be crushed beneath your heel is that you like to win. I want a little clear black and white, good and evil. I want to save the world, not just conquer it. Up to this…
Avencast is one of the numerous German RPGs running around out there, and the second of which I've played, along with Drakensang. Interestingly, Avencast is hindered by many of the same faults as Drakensang and an inexplicable failure to adapt to modern RPG conventions. It's hard to speak too harshly about Avencast given the price at which it can be acquired - regularly well under ten dollars on Steam with regular…
Flotilla is an interesting amalgam of two entirely different types of game - the Oregon Trail randomized choose your own adventure style and a turn-based strategy style. Both of these are well done, with humorously written encounters with bizarre use of animals, excellent music (including some great classical piano during the battles) and just a ton of charm, injected in little ways you wouldn't necessarily expect…
It'd be pretty hard to write a review of Gyromancer without comparing it to Puzzle Quest, though I'll quickly summarize the genre for those of you who skipped the older game. Both are set in a fantasy world where you play the hero sent on an epic fantasy style quest. Instead of random encounters taking you to a turn-based battle system, you're taken to a puzzle grid map where you play a game of what is essentially…
The first thing that probably crosses your mind when you first consider buying Drakensang as your newest RPG fix is - who the hell made this and what sort of RPG is it? But after you get over the fact that Radon Labs has not made anything that would serve to inform your expectations, and that the fantasy setting is neither Dungeons and Dragons nor Middle-Earth, surprisingly little about Drakensang will seem foreign…
I don't know how many people have played the original Majesty. It seems that news of its sequel brought all sorts of people out of the woodwork to talk about how much they loved the first, so it might have been pretty popular. I loved it for certain, though I never had much luck beating the missions in its expansion. I'm considering going back to it in the near future to see if I can't improve my record - and this…
