Category: Features

  • Unboxing of Tokyo Xanadu Vita LE

    Unboxing of Tokyo Xanadu Vita LE

    Tokyo Xanadu Developer: Nihon Falcom Publisher: Aksys Games Platform: PlayStation Vita Genre: Action RPG Release Date: 09/15/2015 (Japan) 06/30/2017 (US) To be released on: PlayStation 4 and PC (as eX+) Aksys Games has released the first version of Nihon Falcom’s Tokyo Xanadu for the PlayStation Vita. I barely gotten through Chapter 3 in my Japanese…

  • Unboxing Cthulhu Wars Onslaught Two!

    Unboxing Cthulhu Wars Onslaught Two!

    Two and a half years ago, I did an unboxing of the original Cthulhu Wars. It was massive. Becayse I purchased nearly everything, there wasn’t much for me to come back for with Sandy Petersen’s second Kickstarter. I could have picked up the stuff from Wave One I didn’t grab the first time around, like…

  • Unboxing the Reaper Bones III Kickstarter (Reaper Miniatures)

    Unboxing the Reaper Bones III Kickstarter (Reaper Miniatures)

    Nearly two years ago, Reaper Miniatures launched their third “Bones” Kickstarter. Reaper Bones are for low cost miniatures that are made out of a material that doesn’t need priming. They are almost always a single piece (save for the larger Bones figures), so gluing is rarely needed. I was one of the 13,465 backers that…

  • Unboxing: Disgaea 5 Complete Limited Edition (Nintendo Switch)

    Unboxing: Disgaea 5 Complete Limited Edition (Nintendo Switch)

    Today marks the official release of Disgaea 5 Complete for the Nintendo Switch. However, those that purchased the Limited Edition direct from Nippon Ichi got theirs a little early. I decided to do an unboxing for you so that you can see what all you get in this edition. They have VERY FEW COPIES LEFT,…

  • Unboxing of Fire Emblem Echoes LE

    Unboxing of Fire Emblem Echoes LE

    Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Intelligent Systems Platform: 3DS Genre: Tactical RPG Release Date: 05/19/2017 (NA/EU), 04/20/2017 (Japan) “Guess what Dee, you can finally stop playing Trails of Cold Steel II and talking about butai.” At long last, I can drop everything and dust off my 3DS. My 3DS unfortunately has…

  • Diehard GameFAN Presents: Unboxing Dark Souls: The Board Game

    Diehard GameFAN Presents: Unboxing Dark Souls: The Board Game

    While the board game side of things has almost exclusively been Alex’s domain on the site for a long while, due to a significant amount of changes that have come into my life as of late, I’ve begun exploring the idea of getting into the hobby myself a bit. While I’m absolutely not the sort…

  • 10 Thoughts on… Tokyo Xanadu (Sony PlayStation Vita)

    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…

  • Unboxing of Tales of Berseria Collector’s Edition

    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…

  • Unboxing of World of Final Fantasy Collector’s Edition

    Unboxing of World of Final Fantasy Collector’s Edition

    Since its announcement, World of Final Fantasy has pretty much lived in the shadows. It debuted to a rather muffled response from the public and was forgotten about until its release date was finally unveiled. Previously, it would’ve landed the month after Final Fantasy XV, which likely would have overshadowed any potential fanfare it may…

  • Book Review: Dishonored: The Corroded Man

    Book Review: Dishonored: The Corroded Man

    A promising build up to the new game for fans.

  • Check it Out: Altruistic Gifts

    While I was at Gen Con this weekend, we stopped at an interesting booth. What caught my eye was actually a clock in the shape of a Hylian shield. My kind of place, I thought to myself. I looked around the booth and saw many other things that caught my eye, including props, dice towers,…

  • Bandai Namco Press Event Recap: Tekken 7, God Eater 2, Tales of Berseria and more!

    There aren’t a whole lot of game companies who go out of their way to hold events geared toward getting a bunch of journalists together to try out games on the east coast these days, so I honestly enjoy that Bandai Namco is one of those companies. I’m not afraid to admit that it’s fun…

  • Diehard GameFAN Presents: Unboxing the Tokyo Mirage Sessions Special Edition

    Man, Atlus has been all-in with the Megaten Special Editions in the past few years, haven’t they? Between the Special Editions for Persona Q and Persona 4 Dancing All Night (both the US release and the crazy Japanese release), they’ve been on a roll, and the announced Persona 5 Special Edition looks like it’s trying…

  • Fire Emblem Fates Original Soundtrack (Japanese import)

    Fire Emblem if/Fates Original Soundtrack Publisher: Symphony No.5 Composers: Hiroki Morishita, Takeru Kanazaki, Rei Kondoh, Masato Kouda, Yasuhisa Baba, Yuka Tsujiyoko (supervisor) No. of discs: 7 CDs & 1 DVD Release Date: 04/27/2016 (Japan) The Fire Emblem series is no stranger to the musical world. After Fire Emblem Awakening’s Japanese debut in 2012, the game…

  • Unboxing: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition

    At last, our long, international nightmare is over. People all over the world are starting to receive the physical copies of Call of Cthulhu, 7th Edition nearly three years after the original Kickstarter began and two and a half years past the original release date. Hell, I’ve had the digital version of most of what’s…

  • 10 Thoughts On… Grand Kingdom Beta (Sony PlayStation 4)

    Since its announcement, there was something about Grand Kingdom that had caught my eye, almost as if there was something familiar about it. It wasn’t until later that I learned it shares a director with Grand Knights History, a Vanillaware title originally slated to be localized in the west by XSEED Games before its eventual…

  • Unboxing: Lost Patrol – Death in the Jungle (Warhammer 40,000/Warhammer 40K)

    So…I certainly wasn’t expecting this to arrive today. When I saw we had a review package to arrive, I assumed it was a video game, the physical copies of Call of Cthulhu, 7th Edition that just shipped out (we’ll unbox that as well, don’t worry) or faux Oldhammer pieces from Diehard Miniatures (no relation to…

  • 10 Thoughts On… Final Fantasy XV: Platinum Demo (Sony PlayStation 4)

    What makes a good demo? Is it having content not found in the actual game no matter how inconsequential it may be? Perhaps slicing out the best piece of the game and having players experience that? Or maybe the simple approach of just having them play the beginning of the game and prompt a purchase…

  • 10 Thoughts on… Valkyria Chronicles Remastered (Sony Playstation 4)

    It hardly feels like it’s been eight years since the original release of Valkyria Chronicles on the Playstation 3, partly because the game felt like a transcendent game at the time of release, and partly because it still feels fresh and different even now. The combination of strategic play and active movement is one that…

  • Battle of the Beta Tests: Overwatch vs Battleborn

    Gearbox and Blizzard have been in something of a dead heat over the past few months over their upcoming FPS MOBAs Battleborn and Overwatch, respectively, to the point that both games are even releasing in the same month (Battleborn at the beginning of May, Overwatch at the end). While it’s clear both companies likely came…