Playing Florence was an interesting experience. If you haven't already heard about it, Florence is a mobile game (available on Apple stuff and also on Android) which focuses on telling a story about a young woman named… Florence. I had a few thoughts about it, so I decided to write them down. Mostly it'll be a rundown of the interesting bits in the game, so if you have not played it, be warned,...
Ok, so why do people love this one in particular? What's so special about Final Fantasy IX? Well... Final Fantasy IX may have the most focused and interesting story I've ever seen in a Japanese video game... Too bad it's surrounded by convoluted abstract ideas that don't always make sense. Let's elaborate, shall we? DISCLAMER: SPOILERS! A whole lot of 'em! I will RUIN this game for you. Or mayb...
The man packed a mean left hook, it left a huge black bruise on my chest. I responded with a swift blow to the head... With a crowbar. This knocked the raider off of his feet, but that didn't stop me. You see, HE attacked ME- I tried reasoning with the man at first, but he didn't listen. He acted insane. It's his fault that I am now standing over him, hitting his chest. He started couging up bl...
Since everyone's sharing their Metal Gear Scanlon Fanart, I'm gonna show ya a sketch I did a week ago (in preparation for MGS2). Drewden! Or... Raidrew? I don't know. Kinda more of a... MGS4 design with the Cyborg Raiden thing, but whatever. Everyone knows that's when Raiden got cool.
Chrono Cross is CRAZY. look at this description of one of the bosses from Chronopedia: Dragon God is a race of cybernetic organisms in Chrono Cross . Originating as a Dragonian science, these mechanical reptiles were built to tame, govern, and manipulate the physical world. Born as one beast, the Dragon God eventually split into six: Fire Dragon , Water Dragon , Earth Dragon , Sky Dragon , Blac...
The real Dark Souls starts here, 279 hours into the game. Am I mad? Am I absolutely crazy? Probably... Yeah. I've played almost 300 hours of Dark Souls. I am out of my goddamn mind. And yet... I think the game has even more to offer. I've just begun. Wait wait wait. lemme start from the beginig. How in the hell have I played 279 hours of Dark Souls? Where did all that time go? My life! Well, in...
Ooh, ooh, how about... "Shock it up?" ... Ekhm... Bioshock Infinite is just around the corner. I've already pre-ordered my copy, I know I'll like it, just as I liked all the previous entries in the... "shock" series...? Yeah, let's go with that. The Shock series. Now, I have played nearly all of them, except for the first one... I haven't played it way back then, and it's not (yet) available on...
Castlevania Dark Souls is the best Castlevania game in ages. AGES. And it is the first good 3D Castlevania game, period. Has it evolved? Is it better than the past Castlevania games? A Tale of Three Castles Now, which Castlevania is Dark Souls more like? The PS1 classic Symphony of the Night, or the first Castlevania? I'm going to say it's a successful blend of both. Let's start with the basics...
Bought Might and Magic VII from GoG, so hey, I thought I'll document my playthrough with some screenshots and put it on my blog. It's my first time with these kind of games, so I think this is going to be fun. With four strangers I stepped out on land of Emerald Island, not knowing what to expect. We entered a scavenging tournamnet to win a castle in a foreign land. Clearly, a scavenging tourna...
Polish Electro Folk
Well that took me by suprise.. So.. I've been playin' some games lately. More importantly, I've bought some games on Steam.. Bully Darksiders Just Cause 2 Mirror's Edge P.B. Winterbottom Recettear Shank Torchlight So that's a lot. A lot to play, and... Oh hey, what's this? 999 Nine hours, nine persons, nine doors, for the DS.. hmm.. well.. okay let's give it a try. ... ... ALL THESE OTHER GAMES...
I bought VVVVVV for 2.50 EUR on Steam yesterday. I'm on my way to 100% VVVVVV. Actualy, I'm at the very begining, but I intend to collect every trinket that I see. Little did I know... The trinket on the right side of the screen is what I want to get. The main character can't jump. He can reversre gravity though- but only when he's standing on the ground. Or uhh.. ceiling. Am I the only one tha...
Strangers' Abode! My blog segment about video games! Blauuu! Planescape: Torment What? In case you didn't know, It's an old game I used to play, but never finished.. Ermm.. Ignus, Morte, Nameless One.. uhh.. Yeah. Updated my dair.. journal. So I'm slowly nearing the end of the game. Or am I? Hell, it's never clear with those Black Isle games. Anyhoo- it's amazing how well told and deep the stor...
Since I have to test my higher resolution streaming anyway (For the european GB SC2 tourney), I thought the best way to test this is to play StarCraft 2. But then I found out about Minecraft's free weekend. So yeah, I'm going to Test stream half an hour/an hour of Minecraft. Because there's not enough "let's play minecraft" videos out there. There's never enough... Tune in if you want to: http:...
Strangers Abode! My blog segment in which I feed you with my brain mush! Hmm.. that didn't sound right at all.. Star Fantasy Or Final Craft. I'm loving Final Fantasy XIII. And it's not that I love the series unconditionally . I hated the 12th part. But something about Lightning's story is very appealing to me. I've been playing for 50 hours, and I've had a blast all the way through. The combat...
So uh... There.
Conundrums left and right, this is another edition of Strangers' Abode- my blog segment in which I use short controlled bursts of information aimed at your head. Blat blat blat! Let's go! One Game Only One game only doesn't mean this blog will focus on one game, it means I can get only ONE game from the following selection: Super Street Fighter IV Starcraft 2 Minecraft Microsoft Points (Let's s...
Story Time The battle is the weakest aspect of Suikoden 2.. While rummaging through the ruins of old console games, I have found one that hasn't aged a day in my mind- Suikoden 2. I realised this game was probably one of the best JRPGs- hell, RPGs I've ever played. Screw that, best story game I've ever played. Which bummed me out a little. I finished RDR not long ago, and the story was decent....
Starcraft II. It's awesome.
Welcome to Strangers' Abode, my house is my head, so take your shoes off! Don't want you to make a mess! It's just a blog segment in which I talk about the games I've been playing lately. I'm a little late to the party with RDR, but hell, it's still worth mentioning. Between Limbo and Redemption I liked LIMBO. However some puzzles were annoying. The atmosphere is great, the graphics are amazing...
Famicom, NES.. Famicom, a revolutionairy console, known in the USA by the name of Nintendo Entertainment System. Now, considering this is a website about video games (video game website about video games) you probably know all about Famicom, and you've seen or played some of its 8-bit titles. Even so, a little background info is needed. So, the original Famicom came out in 1983 in Japan, and th...
Did "Fatal Fantasy VII" draw your attention to this little blog? Well you've been tricked. Cheated, conned, played, bamboozled (my favourite one). Okay, there is a game with that title here. #50 "Fatal Fantasy VII", and it's pretty scary how close its gets to the source material. But first, a little introduction to the horrible world of.. Net Yaroze. A PS1 development kit responsible for 84 gam...
As you see- I'm half way through this ordeal. What have I learned? Well, it's ovious now to me that the standards in homebrew gaming have risen. Xbox360 homebrew titles- dreadful they may be- are so much better then this crap, I'm amazed. Well, without further ado, it's the "Remember? Net Yaroze! half-way-there special extravaganza"! And JUST for this occasion: #34 "Net Yaroze Intro" Yes, it's...
Once again- Net Yaroze, a PS1 developement kit, and me, engage in a glorius combat, from which neither me nor the system walk away victorious. Why would I prolong this gruesome spectacle? I won't, here's the next game. #23 "Psychon" Ugly ass-game. Well, the name of the game is pretty representative of this title. You walk around killing innocent people. The sounds are nice I guess, and it's def...
The bar has been set dangerously low. I'm not talking about games 1-11. No, those games were pretty good. In fact- it makes me think about some of the games I called awful before. Blitter Boy is pure gold (I'm not joking, it's actualy a decent game) compared to the shit we're about to witness here. People- I'm talking about the worst Net Yaroze games, this is going to get bad. Now- the last gam...
Remember? Net Yaroze? You don't? Good. Run for your life. It’s actually nettoyaroze (from japaneese "Let's do it!")- and that’s how I pronounce this development kit for the PS1. What is it? Well, nothing more than homebrew games of the old, like those Xbox indie games today. Sweet, sweet moonshine that turns into bitter vomit once you push the start button. I’m going to write a small review of...
So what can I say about this game that you haven't already heard? The franchise started off with The Legend of Zelda for the NES in 1988 (or Zelda no Densetsu for the Famicom in 1986). It featured a boy named Link on a great adventure to save Princess Zelda from the evil Ganon by collecting pieces of an artifact known as the Triforce. It wasn't a really convoluted plot- but the gameplay was gro...
Retro look is something I thought of not long ago- maybe it was boredom, or maybe the fact that so many people praised old games that I've never played before. I don't know. What I do know is that these games changed the gaming history- revolutionized the genre, were ahead of their time, and so on. The superlatives never end. Best, greatest, prettiest. Well I'm here to test them out- without no...