Josh McGrath
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The Vita seems to have become inundated with dungeon crawlers in recent years, but Mary Skelter is one that shouldn’t be overlooked. If you’re raring for a challenge, paired up with a great storyline, this is definitely a title to add to your library.
Like any other iterative series, Warriors has its faithful followers that will devour every new entry with gusto. However, if Koei Tecmo wants to attract newcomers, I really think they need to start bringing some real innovation to the formula. Something beyond the minor mechanical tweaks in each entry. Something...
Despite the complaints, I can easily see Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana going down as a modern classic of the genre. The sense of wonder the game offers during exploration, the beautiful artistic presentation, and the just plain solid and fun gameplay make this a title that you absolutely should...
As I mentioned, this game probably would have been much stronger as an adventure game or visual novel. Excise the combat and the codex, and you’d have a solid narrative-driven game. The shear amount of new vocabulary the game throws at you would’ve been a much smaller complaint if text...
Overall, Cold Steel is an incredible JRPG, but somewhat disappointing taken in the context of its own series. The repetitiveness of the school life portions is the greatest offender – the game really comes into its own when you’re out of the school environment and exploring Erebonia. Still, if you’ve...
Really, it’s the areas built with specific purpose that are the highlights. The distorted areas that provide plot exposition. The rooms where you find abilities and equipment. Most notably, the boss battles, which are far and away the best thing about this title.
This remaster is definitely the way Final Fantasy XII is meant to be played. If you’ve already played the original to death, there’s enough changes and improvements here to warrant your time and money. If you’ve never experienced the twelfth numbered title in this series, now would be the greatest...
The core gameplay is fun, despite a few annoyances in design choice, but the package as a whole is painfully mediocre. For fans of the series that have been waiting to return to the world of Valkyria, I’m saddened to say that this opportunity isn’t really worth your time.
Despite a large cast that can be tough to keep track of, and a player character without much personality, I had a great time reading through Hakuoki. If you’re hesitant to check this game out because it’s marketed to female gamers, I would encourage you to get over that stigma and give...
Overall, Akiba’s Beat is repetitive and rough around the edges…yet it has some kind of charm that keeps drawing me back to it. Maybe its the grounded characters contrasted against an insane world. Maybe it the competent old-school Tales-style combat. Perhaps its just the anticipation from seeing how another otaku’s delusion...
Overall, The Caligula Effect is a title that showed quite a bit of promise, but ended up being a plain chore to play through. The gameplay is tedious and repetitive, with its multiple featured engines being completely ignorable. The game doesn’t perform well on the hardware. Graphical design is uninspired and...
Aaero
I’m not trying to brag, but rather point out that the content here is a bit slim for rhythm gaming regulars. What is included, though, is simply excellent and well worth the entry price. The entire A/V presentation, mixed with solid and tight gameplay, create easily one of the most addictive...
