Category: 10 Thoughts

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To say that I am a fan of Persona 4 would likely be a bit of an understatement at this point. While I felt that more could have been done with the game to differentiate it, in a large scale sense, from Persona 3, I’ve played through the Playstation 2 title a full two and…

Developer Chunsoft was, up until about two years ago, best known to US gamers as a developer of Roguelike dungeon crawling RPG’s, such as the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series and the Shiren the Wanderer series. Aksys games introduced us to a new facet of the developer’s catalog in 2010, however, with the critically acclaimed 9…

So, let’s get this out of the way up front: I LOVE the XCOM series. X-COM: UFO Defense was an amazing piece of work for its time, and Terror From the Deep, while more of an expansion pack than a full-fledged game, was still pretty fantastic. X-COM: Enforcer (an off-shoot third person shooter) was the…

Okay, so, I’m going to talk about the demo, and I know we’re getting the demo in a few days, but I’m impatient, so I wanted to grab the European demo in advance. Do you folks KNOW what is involved in getting a European account set up on your Vita? I had to go to…

Zen Studios has had some less than optimal releases through their career (The Punisher: No Mercy comes to mind), but one thing they know damn well is pinball. Whether they’re releasing themed tables based on existing franchises (the Marvel Pinball series, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, and so on) or their own unique and fun tables…

Overhead hack-and-slash action RPG’s, otherwise identified as “Diablo clones”, have a somewhat stormy relationship with console gamers, at least as far as sales are concerned. It’s not that games haven’t come out in the console market; games like Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, Champions of Norath and Dungeon Siege III have…

Sega might be known for their rhythm games, but they’ve produced a few here and there that have been rather enjoyable and have acquired a cult following in their time. The Space Channel 5 series and Samba de Amigo come to mind here, as the games were quite interesting for their time, and while they…

I love Steel Battalion. Let’s get that out of the way up front. The game is by no means the most mechanically sound mech game on the market, for consoles or otherwise, but it does an excellent job of making the player feel like they’re piloting a giant mech. Part of this, of course, comes…