Pendragon Is Mightier Than The Sworddragon
I’m actually kind of surprised that no one in the anime blogosphere has mentioned Audiosurf, an uber-cool game that takes media player visualizations to the next level. For those who haven’t heard of it, Audiosurf is an independent-developer game that combines rhythm sensibilities (reminiscent of Amplitude/Frequency) with puzzle game mechanics (Kirby’s Avalanche, Puzzle Fighter) and [...]
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With the new Persona anime looking up this season, I thought it would be a good time to give props to Persona 3, the game that loosely provides the setting for the show. I’m actually glad that the anime has very little relevance to the game, since VG adaptations tend to chafe at the constraints [...]
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First things first – I can’t believe the numbnuts at NIS America decided to ditch the ethereal cover art of the JP version and go with a much more cartoony NA cover. What a waste. Maybe it was an American ‘Nice Boat’ effect, what with the piles of dead bodies and all. Soul Nomad (aka [...]
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Star Ocean EX, Shining Tears x Wind, Tales of Eternia, Xenosaga…the list goes on. Game-to-anime adaptations have a history of major suckage, which was why the anime version of Gungrave was a odd exception. Bateszi’s review reminded me how awesome that show was…[cries manly tears]. The original game’s storyline ends differently than the anime however, [...]
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Gather ’round kiddos, as it’s time for a flashback scene into Kabitzin’s mysterious past. Once upon a time, our mutual friend Velius and I invited Kabitzin to join us in a round of Warlords Battlecry II, an excellent real-time strategy game which we had been enjoying. Kabitzin warned us that this would be his first [...]
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After playing Atelier Iris 3, I started looking into the origins of the Atelier series, since most of the games were never ported over to the west. The gameplay philosophy in the Iris trilogy has shifted away from the the earlier series (Atelier Marie/Elie/Lilie/etc. and their sequels/spinoffs/sidestories), which are more like hybrid RPG/life simulation games [...]
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