Retro reflections by Matt S. I don’t think that Final Fantasy – the pioneering original on the NES – is the best game in the series. I don’t even think that Final Fantasy on the NES is the best version of Final Fantasy. However, I have this almost ritualistic need…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. Every time I start a new campaign in Baldur’s Gate, I tell myself that I’m going to play it differently this time. I’m going to recruit different party members from the nearly 30 that are available. I’m going to play an evil party this time. Every…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. As gaming journalists, we get so fixated on the new big things that we often play games that we like at the time, rate them highly, put them down, and never really come back to them. That’s not to say these games are bad by any…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. If you really, really pressed me to name a favourite console of all time, my knee-jerk reaction would probably be the Game Boy Advance. It was the console that took me from hobbyist gamer to gaming being a true calling and passion for me. It was…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. For such a massive media property, Sailor Moon has always been a little quiet on the video game front. I’m not even entirely sure why, since anime and video games tend to go together very well. Perhaps it’s something as silly as Sailor Moon being a…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. These days, indie developers fall over themselves to implement “roguelike” elements into their games. Indeed, the “roguelike” to indies is what “open world” is to the big publishers – a safe and commercially-proven way of throwing a lot of content at players… and it is…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. The last time Nintendo produced a new Game & Watch title was way back in 2002, with the Game Boy Advance’s Game & Watch Gallery 4. Since then there hasn’t been much done with the property: there have been ports of most of the Game…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. It’s been a while since I last did a retro reflections, but I was recently in a nostalgic mood, so I dusted off my DSi to play some of the DSiWare titles that I found so fascinating back in the day. As a side note, it…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. Over the weekend, Bethesda dropped the first three Doom titles on Nintendo Switch, giving us all a rush of retro nostalgia. Although there are some small issues with the ports (most notably, that they require you to set up a Bethesda account, for games that…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. With Fire Emblem: Three Houses releasing this month, and marking the first “proper” Fire Emblem to land on Nintendo Switch, I’ve been going back over my time with the series, and replaying the first Fire Emblem to be formally localised and released into English. Fire…
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