Video Games

Axel, Xion and Roxas eating ice cream

Kingdom Hearts is back. This time to tell the story of Roxas, Axel and Organization XIII. The best compliment I can give this game is that it has made me want to unquit the abomination that was Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories and give it another shot. That game’s stupid card system really pissed me [...]

Chie, Yukiko, Rise and Naoto playing games

There’s only a handful of games that have gripped me completely. Knights of the Old Republic is the first that comes to mind, for its tremendous story and gameplay. Ocarina of Time is up there, simply because it was the first game in which I felt completely immersed in a 3D world. Half-Life 2 is [...]

A video game bonanza

by RP on May 7, 2009 · 0 comments

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I’ve been meaning to post reviews of games I’ve been playing for a couple months now. But things came up and one thing led to another and… So instead here’s a cornucopia of non-review impressions instead.

Disgaea DS… so addicting

by RP on January 10, 2009 · 2 comments

Almost 60 hours through Disgaea DS, and I still haven’t finished Etna’s Story. Much less gotten the good ending (damn exploding Prinnies), and visited the human world, the cave of ordeals or any of the alternate universe neitherworlds. Apparently, you can reach level 9,999 in this game (and more if you “reincarnate” your character). Based [...]

Luminous Arc 2 – the review

by RP on December 22, 2008

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So I mentioned before that I only decided to buy this game because Atlus was running a holiday promo that offered a free art book and music CD with the game. The first game was easy enough and interesting enough to convince me to play the second game (I mean, I’d bought it, so why [...]

Luminous Arc 1 – the review

by RP on November 29, 2008

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So back in September or August or whatever, Atlus announced that they were included art books and audio CDs with pre-orders of Persona 4, Luminous Arc and Eternal Poison.

Tales of the Abyss

by RP on November 23, 2008

A good ending to a good game. I finally wrapped up Tales of the Abyss about a week ago, after about 60+ and maybe a month and a half of playing. Never was it so gripping that I lost track of time, but it was a good game to pick up and play for an [...]

It struck me as I watched the anime version of TotA at how good the English dubbing voiceover is for the game. Maybe it’s because I didn’t have the original Japanese version as a frame of reference, but I think NAMCO did a fantastic job of picking the voice actors for the game. Jade has [...]