Games reviewed… eventually
Here’s another piece of nostalgia! Like Link’s Awakening and Pokemon Red, Super Mario Land is one of the earliest games I can remember playing and owning. The Mario franchise is an institution; I’m certain that anyone who plays videogames has a Mario game they remember as “their” game. It’s probably either their first one or … Continue reading Super Mario Land
Link’s Awakening was my first Zelda game. It sits, immutable, in my memory; screenshots and moments from it are always there, just below the surface of my thoughts, reading and waiting to be recalled whenever a rush of nostalgia takes me. It’s something about the Game Boy. Nintendo’s big, grey, allegedly-portable brick was the console … Continue reading The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
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
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 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
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
I said it in my review of the first game, but puzzle games often just make me feel dim. I’m not really a videogame masochist; I like playing games on easy, I tend not to even glance at games that are supposed to be difficult, and although I’m happy to try pretty much anything, I … Continue reading Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box
Much as with the original The Legend of Zelda, the series’ SNES release, A Link to the Past, is one of those classic, “greatest-of-all-time” games that I’d simply never sat down and beaten. I figured it was time to change that. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (3DS, GBA, SNES [reviewed], Switch, … Continue reading The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
In a revelation to no-one, I’ve found myself with an awful lot of free time these days, what with the continuing global health crisis resulting in all my work becoming online-based. Because of that, I’ve started to take the opportunity to cross games off my backlog that I’ve been meaning to beat for absolutely ages. … Continue reading The Legend of Zelda
The Almighty Backlog 