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Taking place shortly after the events of The Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass returns the Zelda series to the cartoon-inspired graphic style of the Gamecube game. If I remember correctly, the hero of this timeline is not actually Link, but a small boy from a village that takes up Link’s sword and shield to defeat evil in his archipelago, which is situated above the long since flooded kingdom of Hyrule. Essentially,…
Portal is part of a new compilation put out by Valve Software called The Orange Box, which contains a few other games but none are as inventive as Portal. Portal is a first-person puzzle game in which the player embodies a test subject for a mysterious corporation called 'Aperture Labs'. Through a series of industrial gray and blue rooms, the player must navigate from Point A to Point B using only the tool provided.…
This is the third in the series of stealth-action games and it is the first I've played in the series. The story is apparently a prequel to the other games, so I'm not getting any information I shouldn't have, which is actually significant since these are very plot-heavy games. I've heard the critique that you watch Metal Gear more than play it, and while the game does have more cinematics than probably any game…
Okami is the 2006 PS2 game from Clover Studios, a sadly now defunct developer that turned out one of the best games of last year. Okami is basically a Zelda game, but rather than play as an elf-child, you play as Amaterasu, the reincarnated wolf-god in Japan, or, as she is known to the game's other deities: "Origin of all that is good and mother to us all". The plot of the game is fairy simple: for centuries, the…
Metal Gear Solid 4, allegedly the final Metal Gear game to feature Solid Snake, is a staggering artistic achievement, unique in narrative ambition and cinematic excess. It follows Snake, now an old man due to premature aging brought on by a government conspiracy involving blah blah blah. Actually, while the plot of the Metal Gear Solid series is extremely convoluted, if one pays close enough attention he can fully…
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