Category: Archive
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Review: Berserk and the Band of the Hawk (Sony PlayStation 4)
Berserk and Dynasty Warriors meet for the first time.
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10 Thoughts on… Tokyo Xanadu (Sony PlayStation Vita)
Tokyo Xanadu Developer: Nihon Falcom Publisher: Nihon Falcom / Aksys Games for NA Genre: Action RPG Japanese Release Date: 09/15/2015 (Vita) In 2015, I had imported Tokyo Xanadu and while I didn’t actually finish the game due to the fact now that I have lost my save data, I had made it far enough to…
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Review: Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 – Road to Boruto (Sony PlayStation 4)
This expansion marks the end of the Ultimate Ninja series. Is it worth the pick up?
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Review: Tales of Berseria Collector’s Edition (Sony PlayStation 4)
Why do birds fly?
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Unboxing of Tales of Berseria Collector’s Edition
I’ve shrunk my collector’s edition spending in recent months for a number of different reasons, but not the least of which is that the sets as a whole don’t offer much in the way of value relative to what is being charged for them. The Tales of series is one in which I’ve kept up…
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Review: Yakuza 0 (Sony PlayStation 4)
Yakuza Zero Genre: Action/Adventure Developer: Ryu ga Gotoku Studios Publisher: SEGA Release Date: 1/24/17 I feel it’s only fair to say right away that I’m a Yakuza series fanboy. I bought the first game based on the review by Insidepulse’s own reviewer Mark so long ago. Since that first game it has become one of…
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Preview: Yakuza 0 (Sony PlayStation 4)
Great Scott! The Yakuza series travels back in time to 1988 with Yakuza 0, a prequel to the long running Yakuza series, set during a time when the main protagonist of the series, Kazuma Kiryu, was a fresh young thug who was still working his way up the ladder. Also we get to see a…
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Review: Dead Island: Definitive Collection (Sony PlayStation 4)
Dead Island: Definitive Collection Publisher: Deep Silver Developer: Techland Genre: action/adventure Release Date: 05/31/2016 Welcome to Banoi, a tropical island paradise off the coast of Papua New Guinea. It has all the amenities you could hope for, including lush jungles, luxurious resorts, sun, surf, shade, and… zombies. Okay, so you probably don’t want to spend time…
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Review: Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone (Sony PlayStation 4)
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega Genre: Rhythm Release Date: 01/10/2017 It has only been a handful of months since the last Miku game was released stateside, so it might seem odd, then, for Future Tone to be hitting the PlayStation Store already. However, this is not your typical Miku game;…
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Review: Chase: Cold Case Investigations – Distant Memories (Nintendo 3DS)
Chase: Cold Case Investigations – Distant Memories Developer: Arc System Works Publisher: Aksys Games Genre: Visual novel Release Date: 10/13/2016 When Cing closed its doors in 2010, I was sad because I loved their games (even if Again didn’t quite live up to Cing’s other games). Hotel Dusk remains one of my favorite DS games,…
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Review: Final Fantasy XV (Sony PlayStation 4)
A bro-tastical adventure for the ages.
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On Historical Context in Video Games (w/Paul Wang)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we sit down to discuss the historical context of gaming narratives and how games learn lessons from historical evolution, not all of them good. We ruminate on how characters and franchises evolve relative to the popular storylines in fiction…
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On the First Twenty Episodes
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we’re without a guest, as the focus is on decomposing the first twenty episodes and discussing current events and updates. We also address what goes into making the podcast what it is, dumb things that have happened to your…
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Review: Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs (PlayStation Vita)
Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs Developer: Toybox Inc. Publisher: Aksys Games Genre: Visual novel/SRPG Release Date: 09/20/2016 When Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters originally came out last year, it was something that sort of pinged my radar, but I didn’t get around to picking it up at the time. That turned out fortuitous since…
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On the Sudden Success of Persona 4 (w/Nick Tricome)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we sit down to discuss the sudden and, at the time, surprising success of Persona 4 relative to its predecessors in the Shin Megami Tensei series, and how this came to pass. We discuss the ways Persona 4 brought…
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Review: Dishonored 2 (Sony PlayStation 4)
A worthy sequel that gives you even more options.
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On the History of Rhythm Games (w/Joe Tran)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we sit down to discuss the other side of music oriented gaming by discussing the history of the rhythm game genre. We discuss the origins of the genre, its many rises and falls over the years, the current state…
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Review: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Sony PlayStation 4)
Despite the new location, this feels like more of the same. That’s either great or terrible, depending on your viewpoint.
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On Video Game Musicals Part Two (w/Alex Lucard)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we sit down once again to discuss musicals, and more specifically, the idea of musicals existing within the medium of video games. In the second part of this discussion, we aim towards gaming musicals and why they’re in the…
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Review: Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration (Sony PlayStation 4)
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a satisfactory sequel, but not all it could have been.