The pixel art seen throughout Magical Vacation, Brownie Brown's 2001 GBA RPG, is never anything less than utterly stunning. Every location is bathed in comforting pastel colours and brimming with astonishing levels of detail, this art encompassing everything from lush forests to industrialist towers and populated by fluffy dog people, talking puppets, and every other kind of … Continue reading From the spelltacular to the magically mundane
Korokoro Puzzle: Happy Panechu! is a GBA puzzle game released exclusively in Japan in 2002 and developed by Mobile 21, perhaps best know for their work on a different title for the same handheld: Gradius Generation (AKA Galaxies/Advance). Unlike the seventy billion other puzzle games released for Nintendo's portables over the years (exact quantity possibly a little less than that), … Continue reading Happy! So happy! Mega happy!
Everyone's dead and it's your fault. It turns out Treasure's Saturn wonder Guardian Heroes didn't end the way any of us thought it did, regardless of which of that game's numerous endings you prefer. According to Treasure's sole sequel, Advance Guardian Heroes, the noble Undead Warrior - and we soon learn that's us - sodded o- sorry, "returned to dust" … Continue reading When the game doesn’t love you back
Konami may not have had the best relationship with, well, with themselves, really, but they knew when they had something that could turn a profit and thanks to this mercenary attitude from the higher-ups I've been able to write about the time Suikoden II was remastered, the time before that when Suikoden II was expanded … Continue reading 108 Cards of Destiny
Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster 