CONTENTS "Enter the survival horror." "Those of you who still have the will to live…" "It looks like he's been dead for a while." "You Are Dead" "He must really be afraid of Umbrella." "An emblem of armor is carved into the lock" "Wonder what's on the other side of this door…" "Take a piece … Continue reading Fight your fears and survive.
Surely nobody back in 1993, the same year Phantasy Star IV debuted in Japan and Starfox's Super FX powered polygons were busy wowing people everywhere, hoped the NES would receive it's own version of Capcom's Final Fight - a late '80s game that by then had already been ported to the SNES (twice), appeared on various home computers ranging from … Continue reading Sometime in the 1990’s…
Startling Adventures is a 2001 PlayStation disc by Capcom containing three entirely independent adventures, all of which can be played in any order or even flitted between at will. In this regard it feels very much like Level 5's "Guild" series for the DS; a varied compilation of games released under a single unifying label, a digital … Continue reading One bad apple…
Eldorado Gate Vol. 7, the final disc in Capcom's ambitious Dreamcast RPG saga, opens not with the usual fourth wall breaking intro from party leader/player host Bantross but a quick recap of the previous disc's finalé, Razin's tablet shattered into four pieces and scattered who knows where. With just two scenarios to go I was … Continue reading All good things…
There are just two scenarios contained within Eldorado Gate Vol.6's GD-ROM, and the first is short even by the series' already pleasantly zippy standards. The chapter title "Operation: Wipe out the Gabri tribe" wastes no time in establishing the threat to Eldorado Gates' cute and colourful mascot-type monster by those pesky holy knights first introduced a … Continue reading The beginning of the end
Eldorado Gate Vol. 5 opens with a scenario titled "Monster Hunter Sophie", accidentally naming Capcom's wyvern-bopping series over two years before its Japanese PlayStation 2 debut. Unlike the characters in that eventual multi-million selling showstopper, Sophie's monster hunting manifests as a capturing/summoning system that will no doubt bring Game Freak's Pokémon series to mind, but in practise … Continue reading The calm before the storm?
Most of your time with Capcom/Inti Creates DS game Kabu Trader Shun is spent in thrilling stock battles, using a cool head combined with gut instinct and a little luck to anticipate market fluctuations, buying and selling shares with perfect timing until you defeat your opponent in the merciless field of trader warfare. Victory comes in many … Continue reading Fighting over money
After Volume 3's unexpected but not unwelcome pair of stories Eldorado Gate's back with another three scenario disc, with three new characters for our ever-expanding team to go with it - Mimi, Mamma, and Gigi. Again the manual implores newcomers to treat the stories contained within as standalone adventures (and read the updated on-disc encyclopaedia when they've … Continue reading That awkward middle bit
Bantross promised us something different for this disc, and as soon as I picked up Eldorado Gate Vol.3's case it was obvious we really were going to get it. The cover shows Kanan front and centre - the girl whose life (as well as her sight, hearing, and voice) was ruined by another's desire to obtain the … Continue reading Old friends, new friends
Eldorado Gate's second volume is so keen on getting started Bantross, our suspiciously inscrutable combination of host, party leader, and know-it-all rolled into one, can't even make it through his introductory speech without getting interrupted; the game content to cut him short and throw a single line's worth of description for each of the first disc's three … Continue reading Free from filler, fetch quests, and flabby storytelling
Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster 