Josh Tolentino
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Unfortunately, Lost Song stumbles hardest when trying to engage players outside that sphere of pre-existing investment, and in some ways ends up an even less suitable jumping-off point for newbies who want to get in on enjoying the franchise. My advice to those folks would be to watch the anime or...
Though there’s nothing explicitly wrong with it, Omega Quintet feels far too much like a “by-the-numbers” Compile Heart title to do justice to the studio’s first current-gen effort. Its narrative and aesthetic “fluff” ultimately fail to support its dense and otherwise engrossing mechanical heart. For a game about a bunch of...
Bladestorm: Nightmare isn’t a Dynasty Warriors game, but it doesn’t aim to be, and still ends up being good time when taken on its own merits. In fact, it’s a little ironic that its unusual qualities doomed the original release commercially, but help this new release feel much more fresh and engaging...
All the same, despite the improvements, the patches haven’t quite mitigated the concerns expressed above. But it is easy to imagine a point, perhaps soon, when most, if not all of the kinks have been patched out and the waiting times cut down, leaving players with Total War: Rome II its best: a...
While the game isn’t a genuine sea change from its predecessors, it stays true to the franchise’s foundations, and makes up for any lack of innovation with the grand, beautiful spectacle that is its hallmark. The iterative refinements Cyberconnect2 have implemented over the series’ history have helped to deepen the gameplay as...
