Having a backlog hurts my soul, face and hands. While it’s nice knowing that I have a large variety of untapped experiences in my closet or on my hard drive, both now are overflowing with unfinished titles. However part of me still wants to complete everything in my backlog, and through that I’ve become a little obsessive about managing it.
It’s not the biggest collection, but it’s unwieldy enough.
There’s more elsewhere.
While all the hardcore gaming ladies and gents were verbally exploding about the mastery of BioShock Infinite this week, I started Style Savvy: Trendsetters. Good heavens, what did I get myself into?
After nearly two years, the final title in the Operation Rainfall trilogy, Pandora’s Tower, will be receiving its North American release, thanks to Xseed Games. It’s easy to see why Xseed is bringing it over, as The Last Story became their best selling title, despite being on a system that has been arguably dead for quite sometime. I have yet to experience The Last Story myself, but I do see it gasping for air while being crushed by my mountainous backlog. I’ve continued to neglect it as I, instead, ended up putting a good seven hours into a European copy of Pandora’s Tower.
Before I even say anything about Kara no Shoujo, you should know the visual novel features a few major hurdles that may be difficult to overcome. One is common to the visual novel scene, and that’s the adult and sexual nature of the game. The second hurdle is the gore and brutality that the title features. Finally, these two combine to create a final difficult barrier to overcome; where the sex and gore meet. Unless you like that sort of thing, then… uhhh… yeah. However, if you can overcome these, you’ll find a gripping who dun it murder mystery that will have you speculating til the end and then some, if you decide to pursue all the endings.
I don’t have much to say about Dishonored. Part of that is due to it being almost three months old now, and partly because, despite being a new I.P., there’s not much really going on with the title. Dishonored is your typical stealth action adventure game, and it forces that significantly early on, which can be an issue if that’s not an enjoyable play style for you. However, thanks to having a variety of powers that are geared towards different styles of play, your character’s stats and abilities start opening up after the first few hours.
Hey, I talked about the Resident Evil 6. You just didn’t know about it! So yeah, this video is actually a little old. But basically I decided not to review the game, so I just talked about my thoughts on it.
Oh, hello. I wrote an article and tried posting it to an internet thing called… Bitmob? Somethin’… somethin’ like that. Yeah, I had heard some decent stuff about the site so I figured I’d give it a shot and see what happened.
This is actually something I’ve had in the works for a long time. It was a bumpy path and I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about it, but it’s an article. That’s an improvement over no articles.
Anyways, check it out over on Bitmob.
EDIT: Apparently the post got an official edit and put on the front page. Yey.
SUPER EDIT: I’m in the featured bar now. Yey.
To give some perspective before I even start talking, I’m a horrendously casual fighting game fan. My idea of strategy is learning a few short combos, guarding occasionally, and then panicking and slapping my hands all over the controller as I get beaten down. So if you’re looking for a hardcore fighting game fan’s opinion on Dead or Alive 5, I won’t be fulfilling that here.
1987, the year of Shinobi! Well, the year of the franchise’s first entry with this arcade classic. While later releases would take on a bit of a different form, the original release is just as challenging and fun to play.
Thanks to SEGA’s endless rereleasing of their classic titles, Shinobi’s arcade release can be found across a variety of modern platforms, but is probably most affordable through Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection on both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Of course, you could always go out of your way to find the original arcade cabinet.
You can find the video after the jump.
Did you hate Phantasy Star Universe at launch? You may want to give Phantasy Star Portable a try! This 2009 PSP release from SEGA takes many of Phantasy Star Universe’s online improvements and puts them on a retail disc for you to enjoy. However, the title only supports local wireless – so don’t expect to play alongside friends from around the world.
With the PC and PS2 servers down, and the Xbox 360 servers soon shutting down as well, Phantasy Star Portable will soon be the most up-to-date version of Phantasy Star Universe in its original form that you’ll be able to play.
You can find the video after the jump.
