Tenchu: Natural ninjas
Videogames are still short on many things, but nobody could ever claim ninjas was one of them. Whether your preference … Read more Continue reading Tenchu: Natural ninjas
Videogames are still short on many things, but nobody could ever claim ninjas was one of them. Whether your preference … Read more Continue reading Tenchu: Natural ninjas
[CONTENT WARNING: Chapter six of Twilight Syndrome Special/Twilight Syndrome Kyuumei-hen deals with a high school suicide and the bullying that … Read more Continue reading Twilight Syndrome Special: A very Human horror
It’s not every day you flip open a game’s manual and find that before it gets on with dispensing all … Read more Continue reading Mizzurna Falls: Country of the woods and repose
Cut from the same polygonal cloth as Namco’s beautiful Starblade, Cyber Sled brought full 3D arena combat to arcades in … Read more Continue reading Cyber Sled: A bit like sci-fi ice skating… with missiles
Genso Suikogaiden Vol.2: Crystal Valley no Kettou came out a mere six months after Harmonia no Kenshi and wow does … Read more Continue reading Genso Suikogaiden Vol. 2: A Suikoden spinoff, volume 2
Konami have something of a… reputation… when it comes to the handling of their many much-loved franchises, and the Suikoden series … Read more Continue reading Genso Suikogaiden Vol. 1: A Suikoden spinoff, volume 1
The following is a brief record of my wanderings in the world of King’s Field II (retitled as plain King’s … Read more Continue reading King’s Field II: Prepare to die
FromSoftware have something of a habit of creating worlds filled with darkness and ghosts, desolate spaces still reeling from the … Read more Continue reading Echo Night: Death is but a door, time is but a window
I have something of a slightly shameful gaming secret that needs bringing out into the open: I have a huge … Read more Continue reading Battle Arena Nitoshinden: A classroom calamity
As historically significant as the PlayStation officially cracking mainstream culture was, finally making games cool in that weirdly aggressive nineties … Read more Continue reading Kaze no NOTAM: A walk in the sky