Super Pokémon Rumble (SPR) is the first Pokémon title for the Nintendo 3DS. It is considered as part of Generation 5, which began in 2011 with the released of Pokémon Black and White. SPR came out on the 2nd of December 2011, and its first PlusXp coverage came during the second installment of my Eurogamer round-up (which you can find here). Super Pokémon Rumble is a sequel and expansion of the WiiWare title Pokémon Rumble. Like its predecessor it sees [...]
Skyrim is a tough game to review, mostly due to the sheer amount of much deserved praise heaped on it by critics and fans alike. What else can I say to gamers out there to recommend or pick apart from a game this seemingly perfect? Then I thought sod it, I’ll review it anyway, because when Bethesda is bad its very bad (See brink) but when they are good, they’re really damn good! Skyrim is the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls [...]
Note: I’m sorry this article is a little late – between juggling a new job, new home, RPG reviews, announcements and of course gaming, I’ve been a little sidetracked with life in general. Anyway – onto the review! The last game I got my hands on at this year’s Eurogamer was one of the many sequels I’m looking forward to next year – Mass Effect 3. While I found the original title took a little getting into, it was a [...]
With the current trend of video games centered around big, masculine men with big guns (Gears of War, Battlefield, Space Marine, Deus Ex, Call of Duty and so on) – Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland couldn’t be more different - a Japanese RPG starring a young female alchemist on a journey of self discovery. It is the twelfth installment in the Atelier series – a series I have had a very small amount of experience with - and the second in the “Arland” saga. (My [...]
Final Fantasy XIII was a major disappointment to me as a fan of the series – while visually fantastic, the game was a linear experience with uninspired combat that was far too automated for my liking. Gone were the exploratory elements and all civilisation, instead replaced by pretty graphics and overly drawn out battles that only allowed you to directly control one party member at a time, the others left in the hands of less-than-perfect AI. As much as I [...]
11 years ago, Ion Storm brought to us something that forever changed the landscape of the medium of gaming. Deus Ex (usually pounced ‘day of sex’) was an ugly but profoundly deep cyberpunk RPG, not just in terms of plot but also the gameplay options and mechanics giving the player space to play the game as they so desired, although taking the stealthier option was generally much more viable. It was followed up in 2003 by the mediocre sequel invisible [...]
Contributed by Helen Doherty Okamiden is a Capcom RPG for the Nintendo DS. It was released in America on the 15th March, (and Europe two days later), and is a sequel to the critically acclaimed PS2/Wii title Okami. I won’t say too much about the story so as not to spoil things for those of you intending to play this, but I will say it is set 9 months after the events of the original. It is considered an indirect [...]
Now the past few months I have been playing the more mature, gruesome and to be honest, the more morbid and frightening games which are every increasingly growing in popularity – things like Fallout 3, Grand Theft Auto IV and Halo. This past week or so I have decided to take a break from that norm and go down a different route, so I dug my PS2 out and started to re-play the classic Kingdom Hearts (KH). Ever since my [...]
Contributed by Helen Doherty Sooo Garvaos kindly agreed to let me take a detour from my usual custom of reviewing iPhone apps so that I could bring you this review of what is to perhaps be the last big Nintendo DS release: Pokémon Black/White. For those of you who’ve been living under a rock for the past 10 years: Pokémon is a long-running RPG series, which has inspired everything from movies to ice-pops (and a whole host of other crazy [...]
As a Gamer, I can…sometimes find myself a bit too engrossed in my work. We’ve all been there; a quick play turns into a couple of hours and then more and more and more. You don’t want to leave the gaming zone you’ve created for yourself. There’s always an excuse: “Just to the next save point” “I just have to finish this quest” “Just a few more levels, then I can face the boss”. And if you’re particularly unlucky, the [...]
