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Eternal Darkness is a perplexing experience, uniquely extravagant and packed with loathsome horrors. 0
The first thing Eternal Darkness presents to the player upon booting up the GameCube system is a quote from Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece poem “The Raven”. It dictates much of the tone of the narrative about to be unfolded. Taking inspiration from Poe’s supernatural fiction, his violent depictions of bizarre occurrences, Lovecraft’s styled writings along with his creations of cosmic beings so powerful they defy our frail human minds and other creators of the macabr...
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Charming in its simplicity, Pikmin bets all it has on brand new ideas. 0
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but then again so wasn’t in 30 days. Yet, in Pikmin you have exactly 30 days to rebuild a spacecraft and fly back home before your life suit runs out of whatever keeps you alive; if you fail, everything goes to waste. Sounds a bit harsh when you think about it but Pikmin is a pretty straightforward puzzle game, the 30 in-game days just makes everything a bit spicier.You’re in control of Captain Olimar, a guy that was just hangin’ around space ...
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Gloomy, twisted, icy, picturesque, and still suffering from the ultimate problem of Resident Evil: boss battles. 0
People might complain a lot about the controls but this, my friends, is Resident Evil. This is what the series should never have ceased from being. It’s not that the series doesn’t work as action-driven third-person shooter, it’s mainly because anything works as action-driven third person shooter. Resident Evil took its massive brand, interesting story and memorable characters and swallowed the most mainstream genre around to become a behemoth of popularity. In the name of sale...
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When your core is a solid as this is you don't need much else to entertain. 0
I really wanted to be on par with the story of Halo before venturing into the third installment of the series, but it seems I’ll never be able to catch up so I decided to go ahead and play the game that has been sitting on my shelf for years now. I generally don’t expect much from action games in terms of story but I had noticed that a lot of people hold it in high regards, I tried my best to engage.I must admit that not being able to follow the story from the first two games jeopard...
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A free game that works as a pretty straightforward experience. 1
This puzzle game is readily available to anyone willing to download it from the Xbox Live. It's free so the fact that you don't really have to pay a cent to have access to it makes it at least a one time event in worst case scenarios. Of course, anyone who wasn't born yesterday knows that must be a reason why this is free above all else.It's a pretty straightforward experience really, you're presented with a screen full of colored hexagons — the amount of different colors depends on how f...
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Solid narrative-driven action game that sometimes suffers from excessive hand-holding. 0
Every form of work put forth is ultimately part of the context in which it was conceived, be it some kind of artistic creation or simply something that serves a more objective nature. Sure for me video-games are, in one way or another, an art form in its own right, but that's hardly a consensus and neither should really be. The original Tomb Raider and many subsequent iterations in the series had their place in the 90's, probably the last decade in human history to be completely free of any cha...
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Immersive dive in character development and philosophical themes. 0
It took quite a while for the Deus Ex series to get back on track with releases since the second game, arguably weaker than the first one which is now considered a classic, this might have contributed to its hiatus. Fortunately the series is now revived in this new iteration and tries to live up to expectations, which are not exactly low to tell the truth.There's quite a lot here that is taken right back from the original, especially from the first one, for the better or the worse. The core gam...
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Mega Man kept strong until the very end. 0
And finally the last game of the original hexalogy arrives. It is year 1993 and we’re halfway through the 16-bit generation, two years away from the release of the first Playstation console. It’s late, way too late for a NES/Famicon release, but Capcom doesn’t seem to care.It’s pretty clear to see why these last two Mega Man releases have been obscured by everything else going on in the industry at that moment since the lifetime of the original Nintendo had long since pa...
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When you just can't get enough of Mega Man. 0
A whole new adventure for Mega Man arrived when the fifth game of the series was release for the NES/Famicon in 1992. One thing I realized is that most Mega Man games first came out in December of some year, this one did too. At that time the Super Nintendo had since long been released but Capcom wanted more, and apparently, gamers did too.The fourth game had brought some interesting stuff to the table, most importantly the best HUD Mega Man probably had up to this point. They made sure to reuse...
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Mega Man knows no bounds. 0
The fourth Mega Man still released for the NES/Famicon is once again one step forward in technical terms from the previous three. It’s both its best and its worst. After a trilogy of successful titles it was bound to show some wear and tear of the overall gameplay mechanics. Again, the additions are rarer and rarer as time goes by and the gameplay reaches a level of perfection that defies even the original Nintendo’s lifespan logic.By the time this game hit shelves, in December 1991...
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There's certainly less impact with this than the previous ones, but it's still great. 0
This is the entry which Capcom went “all out” when it comes to Mega Man. Whatever it was that could be fixed from the second iteration you can be sure that they managed to do something about it. After the first two we could be certain that this formula was what Capcom had in store anyway, so it turns into a love/hate situation from now on. If you enjoyed the series thus far, there’s not much to dislike here, if you didn’t, nothing had really changed so your opinion proba...
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Learning from mistakes, polishing the edges, the making of a classic. 0
One measly year after the debut of Mega Man on video-games the sequel arrived. It was pretty clear that while the first game had great potential to establish a few ground rules when it came to the newly created series it came short on polish. The ideas were fresh and inventive, but the delivery was not. Everything came together with the release of Mega Man 2.It can be ultimately said that Mega Man 2 does everything better than the first. It holds a level os polish that wasn’t really found...
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A primordial event. 0
This is the very first release for the Mega Man series and the first of the original hexalogy released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)/Famicon. It features many aspects that would later become standard for the Mega Man series, but most of them are still in a very archaic state and would get severely improved in subsequent games.The basic rules are simple, start a stage, fight a hoard of mechanical enemies carrying your unlimited Mega Buster — in this release simply called P &n...
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Though it could have been much more, it's still a fair deal. 0
It's such a shame that Dragon Age carried so much depth in a sole game that only had one surplus version until it fell in the black abyss of mediocre releases. Dragon Age had way too much potential that it could feature at least two expansions with little to no problems while still carrying a heavy-weight brand name for the future. Provided, of course, that Bioware wouldn't mess things up, like they probably have.In this expansion you can load up your character from Origins or create a brand ne...
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Of classic platforming and cash-ins. 0
Launched as downloadable content which was also shelved as a standalone disc, I approached this expansion without any initial thoughts about it being completely built upon the skeleton of the main game. I actually thought it was something what Super Mario Galaxy 2 was for the first one, recycled ideas, concept, art style and basically anything they could to make for a new experience, not a quick buck out of it all.We all know that Mario is pretty straightforward, the physics have changed a bit ...
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Are you a chicken man or a BATMAN? 0
Decidedly Batman Arkham Asylum had lots of room for improvement and people usually don't hate money so a sequel didn't take too long to come. Two years after the first game Arkham City arrived and tried the somewhat easy task of making everything grander. The island home to the most dangerous criminals seems to have lost its initial purpose and the political forces have clashed within Gotham, when things came to worse, Hugo Strange, highly proficient psychologist and advanced chemist, who worke...
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Something laughs in the dark. 0
Unfortunately when it comes to PC games -- and this review is based on the PC version of the game -- there are much more than the actual game to comment on. Sometimes it's sad to say that the complex structures of PC builds aren't up to the task of handling ports, in the case of this title however, there's pretty much no technical problems standing between you and the caped crusade's quest to save Gotham once again. Not much though not necessarily absent.Any PC moderately decent should take car...
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The expected step forward. 0
People, people, comparing anything titled Smash Bros with Melee at this point is poignant. When a developer wants to make tweaks to improve upon a game they've established they have two ways. Throw everything into the rubbish bin to start from scratch, but people will go nuts and complain like there's no tomorrow because it has lost its essence; or you can maturely meddle in pretty much everything regarding to this to create a broader, larger-than-life experience that feels a superior version o...
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Mario finds yet another way to please fans. 0
This is the Wii version and follow-up to the reboot version of Mario released for the Nintendo 3DS a while back. I've already talked about the previous game, Super Mario 3D Land and argued that while it might seems strange at first it ultimately served its purpose and provided an adventure that was neither 3D nor 2D Mario, it was something in-between that felt and controlled like the 2D Mario as long as you stayed on track but could venture beyond the limits of 2D making it a perfect hybrid.Thi...
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Rediscovering long-lost corners and shedding light into the darkness. 0
It was a decisive moment for Zelda at that time and age. The wheel was set in motion when Ocarina of Time broke the boundaries of 2D to delve into the 3-dimensional realm. Having sowed the seeds for the way Zelda was imagined in newer generations to come, any unexpected outcome would only surface after people were said and done with whatever was shipping within the confines of those cartridges so eagerly expected. Judging from both the public and critics' reaction, at the time and decades after...
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Grindy and simplistic; but after all, you're not even sure why you're still playing, but you are. 0
The new trend in gaming are the infinite games that leave you with two main choices, you either pay for whatever currency it features or you'll have to stick to its sluggish presentation to advance. Since it finds its most fertile ground on smartphones, this false "free game" is somewhat understandable for the kind of deals often found in digital stores. It ultimately even makes sense, after all, they have to convince the player to buy the game after they started playing, and still have a profi...
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An important chapter in gaming history. 0
Not many games get to have a legendary status that dares to transcend the test of time, among this panteon of titles stands Chrono Trigger as one of the few that helped define the action RPG scene, moving a large fanbase over the years. The re-release of this beast makes a loud statement that games are not only meant to be carried on by nostalgic fanboys from days gone by. One of the most noble acts which the 3DS gets to perform is finally enabling later Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 titles to...
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This delivers Picross, nothing more, nothing less. 0
What do you expect from a lighter? Fire? Bring peace to the Middle East? Resolve math problems? There's some things which are simple because they don't need to be any more complexity. Picross Touch is one of those games. It's so simple it's hard to judge. Does it do its job well? It does.You have Picross which is some one type of game made incredibly easier in electronic formats. You're given clues about which block you need or not to fill and try to resolve the entire puzzle by grouping right ...
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It's perfect for what it strives to be. 0
Two dimensional Mario games are a sure way to earn some money while maintaining the faith in quality as well as refurbishing the same old thing for God-knows how many times. Nintendo is as guilty of rehashing ideas that have yielded great success as any other developer out there. Though not everything is as we had hoped.Some stylistic choices are immortal, they don't come close to ever being made outdated. Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario World are such examples. Their gameplay/style could be...
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Some series are not meant to be taken lightly. 0
I've said it before in 2004, it doesn't matter whether or not this is too classic to be messed with, it doesn't matter if it's Nintendo most serious game and when people buy it -- and they'll buy it if the box clearly states that there is nothing inside, just a blank disc with the Zelda logo printed in order to drive fanboys crazy. They misunderstood Zelda, it is not something made to be carved in stone, this was always meant to walk alone with its own legs, with its own merits.The life after O...
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When a game loses its soul, it loses everything. 0
On the third main title after rebooting the series into a more action-oriented third person shooter with horror elements Resident Evil seems to have forgotten lessons learned with the fourth and fifth iterations as well as the minimal necessary to make a Resident Evil. While Resident Evil 4 was still the series we all learned to love, Resident Evil 5 was more of a “great game, mediocre RE”. This time there’s absolutely no excuse, Resident Evil 6 isn’t a good game by any ...
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This might look the black sheep of the family, but it's actually worth it. 0
Right from the get-go you realize why this is called “Judgement”. Somehow, Damon Baird, one of the original four in the group since the first Gears, is being judged in a rather trumped-up trial. The form in which the charges are presented and how the seemingly superior ranked official storms on them makes everything seem conspicuously biased. Still, all of them are given the chance to speak and give his version of what had happened.They take turns unfolding the story and each time yo...
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While this cute cover hides a sinister core, it's above all a great puzzle game. 0
Some games can easily fool you into thinking they’re something else. Take Terraria for example, one might think it’s just a stylish platformer about going from point A to point B when it’s so much more than that. Toki Tori might be a cutesy, simplistic feat at first glance, but in fact it’s a pretty brutal puzzle experience.The levels are basic and the movements aren’t that fancy either. Most monsters just go right and left endlessly until something happens that ch...
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Sparkling with life, ruined by the controls. 0
By now it shouldn't come as a surprise to no one but these new games don't really do the original Donkey Kong Country franchise its justice. The base games were the most spectacular experiences anyone could have in gaming, these new ones aren't exactly bad in the new style they've chosen, but the controls ruin it nevertheless.At first it was the abysmal wiimote, then came the 3DS version, and we were certain the nightmare was real, unchanging. The problem with the controls were half addressed i...
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With timeless visuals in full glory of high-definition and an adventure to be remembered, Wind Waker is a gem. 0
I might be a minority here but I don't remember freaking out on Zelda's new style back in the beginning of the 2000's. I remember waiting for the magazine that contained all the information of the game that was about to be released, I came home from the bookstore reading it and getting amazed at each picture I saw, each word used to describe it. When it was announced I didn't give it much thought, I guess I was way too sure Nintendo wouldn't screw things up. At that time, they really didn't.Peop...
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The best thing about this is that we finally get to see Mario in glorious HD; regardless of it being a solid game. 0
The "new" in the name is pretty much redundant as of now, presented here is what we were all introduced in the Nintendo DS glory days of 2006. Ever since that DS game 2D Mario has been a constant for Nintendo. There's nothing that can really go wrong here so it's safe to say that anyone that found even the slightest reason to pick up a previous 2D Mario in this new era should be hooked within no time.The first releases of the renewal for the plumber on 2D had a Super Mario Bros. 3 vibe attached...
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As monolithic as it is intriguing. 0
Monster Hunter is one of those series that aren't exactly mainstream in the West so the hottest market for it is Japan, side by side with many other games that seemingly sell like water in a desert in Japanese markets yet the rest of the world doesn't feel so strongly about. The fact it's developed and published by Capcom never helped the game for me either. I'm not exactly the biggest Capcom fan around. So like mostly everyone else I let this one slide for as long as I can remember.Still, the f...
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Light-hearted adventure that is not afraid to dare where it needs to. 0
I have good memories form the original Luigi's Mansion, one of those "hidden gems" from the GameCube days, since the GameCube itself is a hidden gems, it seems. It was a simple game that did many things right at the time. The follow-up, Dark Moon, is basically a simple game that does even more things right.The light story behind everything offers just the right amount of details to make up for its humorous outcome, nothing is overdone, nothing taken extremely serious. Nintendo is not the best ou...
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Good old Mario Kart, nothing more, nothing less. 0
Good thing this release has the number on the name because, frankly, after Double Dash I simply lost count. Mario Kart seems stuck in time for all the good and bad reasons anyone could think of. There's little to no room for improvements and whatever this room may be it's pretty much covered here, online gaming.Race picturesque tracks against Nintendo's all-stars using all sorts of nonsensical items aiming for victory at all costs, that has been the premise since the beginning, and continues to...
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A breeze of fresh air. 0
Lately I had the urge to play a stealth game, I often have this urge but end up replaying stuff like Team Fortress 2 anyway. This time I was going to hunt down some game that had me slow-pace through it as a main objective, nothing meta prepared like getting any famous action game like Half-Life 2 and try to low-profile it. I wanted the real deal, something that resembled what I experienced back in the day when I had to safeguard my physical integrity while advancing in Goldeneye 007. believe i...
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If you can go past the disgusting single player difficulty, these are still awesome. 0
What you get from this collection is simply the first three games ported to recent generation hardware and put together. We all know them well, all great games that might appear better in our nostalgic mind than what they really are today. As fighting games they're simple but effective; as single player game they're disastrous; as multiplayer online it's pretty cool, though not so hot as it used to be.They play like they played in the old days, with MK1 being the simplest of the three, MK2 the ...
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The most classic compilation ever. 0
Let's judge this for the collection itself and how much effort was put into making this worth the money. In a world where downloading an emulator with a ROM for a game that could run on a calculator it's not so easy to make profit. Also, in my humble opinion, if there is one game company that does deserve to be ripped-off is Capcom, so why is this a big deal?It's a big deal because it's god-damn Mega Man. You should know by now but within these 6 games gaming history was forged. It doesn't real...
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Save the boat and train rides for the real life. 0
Here we go again, another Zelda for a handheld and a surprise; this pretty much might be the best Zelda released on a handheld. I remember Minish Cap with vagueness and good will. The both Oracle ones were pretty sweet. Still, this might be better suited for a comparison between the two most recent ones. Phantom Hourglass brought back the boat from Wind Waker and took it to a whole new level, not necessarily a good one. Spirit Tracks tried to base its roots on another type of vehicle and the re...
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Technology is knocking on the door, don't dare to make it wait. 0
It's been a while now since Resident Evil drifted away from pure survival horror for the sake of surviving an ever-growing industry with increasingly more dynamic control schemes. Anything outside this territory is niche and should be treated as such. A franchise like Resident Evil had too much potential to aim merely on the horror buffs with its tank movements and sluggish gameplay.I'm one of "those guys", I'm afraid. The one that thinks Resident Evil was better when it was sluggish,full of ba...
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Because you gotta have the plumber wherever you may go. 0
You can always count on Mario delivering the goods, at least it seems. Nintendo has been one disgusting company for quite a while now, releasing obnoxious games in a landslide, but Mario is Mario, you can't miss it. Lackluster spin-offs and a few disappointments here and there aren't enough to scratch the plumber's credibility. The formula is so carved in stone it's almost impossible to screw up; still, Nintendo has a way of striving for the new whilst retaining key features.As most of us probab...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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