Games reviewed… eventually
It’s time for another round of my early teen nostalgia as we take a dive into where I started with Fire Emblem, Nintendo’s venerable series of tactical anime warfare simulators! Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA) Released Oct 2004 | Developed: Intelligent Systems | Published: Nintendo Genre: JRPG, Strategy Let’s begin with a brief comment … Continue reading Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
If the second Ace Attorney taught me anything, it was as a stark reminder of the perils of over-excitement. It was certainly a good reminder that visual novels live or die on their writing, and Justice for All definitely floundered. Still, there was of course a lingering hope that, on going into this third entry … Continue reading Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations
Like many Game Boy Advance games I can talk about, WarioWare holds a lot of nostalgia for me. I’ve got very strong memories of playing it for endless hours on car trips, playing the hardest stages over and over again, constantly trying to beat my records. It’s absolutely one of the games I played the … Continue reading WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
It’s safe to say I went into the second Ace Attorney with high expectations from the first game. However, I’m not entirely sure what I wanted from it though. The strengths of the first game were I suppose partly in the surprise of it being a visual novel I genuinely enjoyed, and partly because the … Continue reading Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All
I’ve been waiting for this for quite a long time. I’m not sure why I kept putting it off, given it’s been cheap for ages and it’s a part of a series of pretty reliable games, but there we go. Let’s roll on towards the (current) end of the Uncharted franchise with A Thief’s End. … Continue reading Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
I feel like you can’t play the Professor Layton games and not also stop to take a look in at Ace Attorney. The two franchises feel so intrinsically linked now to me as the premier puzzle-solving visual novel-style games. I appreciate that’s quite a niche subgenre, but Ace Attorney and Professor Layton definitely made it … Continue reading Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
It’s probably a rule of mystery and fantasy writing codified somewhere that at some point you are honour-bound to try and involve time travel in your plot. Then again, when your protagonist is a well-spoken and seemingly infinitely educated British gentleman, perhaps you simply have to throw in some time shenanigans because, well, the comparisons … Continue reading Professor Layton and the Lost Future
Following on from a brilliantly-received predecessor has to be hard. There must be a nagging thought that follows you, constantly asking whether you need to be as inventive as your precursor, or whether you ought to simply copy what they did and hope that lightning strikes twice. That discussion must have taken place at Ubisoft … Continue reading Far Cry 4
Sometimes you just have to go back to where things all began. Final Fantasy (3DS, Android, GBA [reviewed], iOS, MSX2, NES, PC, PS1, PSP, Wonderswan) Released Dec 1987 | Developed: Square | Published: Nintendo Genre: JRPG I’m sure there must be some folk in the world who aren’t familiar with the Final Fantasy franchise. For … Continue reading Final Fantasy
In the world of cult JRPGs, perhaps one of the most vaunted names you come across is Golden Sun. This tiny franchise remains a series people remember with fondness, despite not getting a game in over a decade, and without any real sign of any future installments. I confess to having been a part of … Continue reading Golden Sun
