Dragon Quest IV – Chapters of the Chosen

Everyone in the world must have played Dragon Quest IV by now, so I won’t bother writing too much about it. I killed both Psaro the Manslayer and the bonus boss yesterday and had a great time too. Take that, Pstupid Psaro! That’ll teach you to wipe out the heroine’s village! I was really quite annoyed […]

Stella Deus – The Gate of Eternity

Or The Catacombs of Eternity, as I came to call it. But we’ll get to that in a moment. Stella Deus is a strategy RPG released in 2004. Developed by Pinegrow (I feel like I’ve played another game by them but I can’t remember which) and published by Atlus. Many have heard of it, few […]

Lemuore no Renkinjutsushi review

Have you ever picked up a game you thought was poorly-designed, poorly-conceived and poorly-executed…and ended up playing it for 30 hours? The simplest games tend to be the most addictive, I don’t know why. The concept of this game is simple, the design is simple and the gameplay is simple too, maybe that’s why I […]

Sands of Destruction – Really glaring flaws

I’d been looking forward to playing Sands of Destruction since it first came out in Japan, but it’s only last week that I finally bought it and settled down to play. What stopped me from playing it earlier was an Amazon.co.jp review I read that said the game’s story was impossible to understand without watching […]

Gaming summer!

I’ve played/am playing a couple of really good games that I just haven’t gotten round to writing about. I go through phases like that where I just play, play, play and then forget to review entirely because I was having too much fun. Here’s most of them: Stella Deus – Started slow, but I really […]