Of all the Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles that we’ve seen released on the Nintendo 3DS to date, Harvest Moon is the one I have been looking forward to the most (well, that and the Final Fantasy Legends trilogy… Get to work Square Enix). Why? Because this is…
Read MoreI’ll be the first to admit I’m not a huge Zelda fan. The storyline(s), puzzles and creepy characters always put me off as a kid. Unlike Mario, The Legend of Zelda never sucked me in from beginning to end. Indeed, Zelda was one of the few big names of gaming…
Read MoreWith the recent release of Fire Emblem Awakening, a lot of players are really getting their first serious look at this RPG-strategy series. There are around a dozen Fire Emblem games with the series’ first release way back in 1990, though many of those were released only in Japan. My…
Read MoreBefore the Castlevania games became non-linear RPG/ platformers, they were very simple, very straightforward platformers. Anyone whose experience with the franchise starts and stops at the more modern games might be a little surprised by just how primitive the early Castlevania games are, but that’s not to say they aren’t…
Read MoreI don’t really understand why Tecmo Koei let the Kessen franchise fade into obscurity. There was so much potential in the basic idea of meshing Warriors-style action with a more cerebral strategy game, and as Kessen III proves, that formula is still genuine fun today. Perhaps it was the commercial…
Read MoreThe Disgaea series has always been renowned for one reason above all others: its incredible depth. The good news is that unlike previous-gen visuals and antiquated gameplay conventions, raw depth is something that doesn’t age, so when it comes to re-experiencing the Disgaea games as PlayStation 2 Classics, they are…
Read MoreI know there’s a gamer sub-culture that appreciates games that are deliberately (painfully) hard. These are the kind of people that buy into the retro-modern games and tributes. They’re the kind of people that arcade games would have sucked right in before people realised that buying a game and playing…
Read MoreNintendo’s The Legend of Zelda is a game franchise that has over the years developed into a unique formula, many times emulated and rarely (or never, depending on your perspective) bettered. There’s a reasonable case to be made that Darksiders comes close to Nintendo’s green-dressed hero, but for all the…
Read MoreTake a trip through time and face off against belligerent Legionnaires and missile loaded Triceratops’ in this classic SNK shooter. SNK’s Time Soldiers was released in the midst of the arcade boom of the late ’80s. Personally, I don’t remember the game, but I probably shouldn’t be too surprised that…
Read MoreThe Game Boy, and later Game Boy Color, had a fine heritage in puzzle gaming. From the obvious (Tetris), to the most niche games possible (Catrap), there really was a puzzle game to suit any player on Nintendo’s classic handhelds. Toki Tori is the most recent classic puzzler to hit…
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