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6,526 reviews · showing 5,321–5,340
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Reader SNES
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past review
Take Super Mario World. The same level aesthetic, the same goofy tree sprites, the weird ''Mushroom Kingdom'' look of it all. Apply a steamroller over the game at a 45 degree angle and call the result an ''isometric overhead perspective.''…
sinner · March 14, 2004
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Reader SNES
Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety review
Sit still. Breathe, blink a few times. Prepare for the most illuminating, hell-harbingering revelation the gaming world has ever seen. Prepare for the naked truth about the miserable Separation Anxiety: Acclaim has created the Love! Big…
sinner · March 14, 2004
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Reader SNES
Final Fight review
Final Fight was originally released with the benefit of being alone in the next generation (of its era, 16 Bit) beat 'em up field. It started to really suck to be Final Fight when Streets of Rage was released; Streets of Rage came along…
sinner · March 14, 2004
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Reader SNES
Earth Defense Force review
If you take a child to an expensive restaurant, he'll stare vacantly at the menu. He'll skip past the forty dollar steaks slathered in twenty dollar mushroom sauce. He wants nothing to do with anything called ''parmigiana'' or…
sinner · March 14, 2004
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Reader SNES
Axelay review
The stage: The Dread Pirate Shooterfan, after successfully delighting in the vast shooter libraries of the glorious Genesis and the timeless Turbo, chances upon the SNES... here he must face a battle of wits with the superhype machine…
sinner · March 14, 2004
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Reader Sega CD
After Burner III review
Mark my words: no game has been as thoroughly sodomized as Sega's AfterBurner. Think the Game Boy Advance is littered with horrid ports? How about the GBC with its laughable versions of otherwise successful games? You see, you know what…
sinner · March 14, 2004
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Reader Saturn
Panzer Dragoon Saga review
Beyond life follows death, but for the most important of all dragon riders, beyond his death is his life, again. Death brings him his destiny, and death raises him from the commoner depths of labor and servitude to the forefront of the…
sinner · March 14, 2004
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Reader NES Review of the Week
Castlevania review
The name is worth a lot and you know it because it means something to you. You played it when you still had your youth, when you still loved birthday parties and still thought girls were gross. You loved Castlevania and it is as old as…
sinner · March 14, 2004
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Reader Dreamcast
Zombie Revenge review
And so march the dead, yearning to be truly asleep, to escape their involuntary, macabre commitment to lifeless motion. They drone around, unsure of their actions or even of their existence. Their mouths hang from a lack of tissue vitality…
sinner · March 14, 2004
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Reader Dreamcast
Virtua Fighter 3tb review
Virtua Fighter 3tb is not for everyone. A gamer that wants a fighting game to be easy will not be pleased with this game. Someone who desires endless strings of automatic, self-performing combos to flow effortlessly from the buttons' press…
sinner · March 14, 2004
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Reader Saturn
Strikers 1945 II review
A Psikyo shooter is a pretty recognizable thing. If you've had some history with the company's shmup fare, you could easily have won a ''Name That Developer'' challenge with, say, the Dreamcast's Gunbird II. Similarities amongst their…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
T.R.A.G. - Tactical Rescue Assault Group: Mission of Mercy review
T.R.A.G. wasn't even a great concept to begin with. Its base elements manage to be generic AND completely plagiarized at the same time. It wanted to be just a boring action game; T.R.A.G. feels like it was destined to be completely one…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
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Reader Genesis
Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage review
Over the years, Acclaim has tortured the world with its arduous library of licensed fodder, ''original'' garbage and malicious mixtures of the two. Acclaim has consistently released turd after turd into the underpants of the videogame…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
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Reader SNES
Super Mario World review
It's something of human nature to form rifts and divisions over situations. When you're older, serious issues like divorce, abortion, religion, etc. cause people to choose a side and defend/attack zealously. When you're younger (or just a…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
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Reader SNES
Super Castlevania IV review
It must be a case of brainwashing. For, if any doubts ever entered the rabid SNES fan's head, they'd be soon shaken away by the word ''Super'' in the game's title. No game with such surname hyperbole could ever be second-best. The game is…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
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Reader Sega CD
Robo Aleste review
Sometimes you have to look where the coal is to find the diamond. Robo Aleste is a vertical shooter of true, distinct quality, mostly unknown and unplayed, even by shooter vets with extensive and expensive collections. As common as…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
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Reader Sega 32X
Space Harrier review
Space Harrier is a game of unique mold from a time when there were practically no conventions for games. In its day, most genres hadn't been carved yet and games only resembled each other in minimalistic principal similarities. As the…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
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Reader Sega 32X
Blackthorne review
It doesn't take much for a great game to be overlooked. Lack of marketing, release window too late in a console's life... just one snafu can make an excellent and potentially successful game disappear from gamers' minds. Blackthorne had…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
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Reader Saturn
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei review
Shooters, typical in their brievity and to-the-point nature, have never been known for scale. They're reknowned for intensity and adrenaline, but they most usually come without grandeur or flair. This isn't to their detriment; it rather…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
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Reader Saturn
Galactic Attack review
Never call this game Galactic Attack. Its arcade form was called RayForce, its home conversion in Japan was titled Layer Section... both were great, virile names. Acclaim saw fit to ravage such an eminent mixture of gameplay and…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
