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	Jawbreaker II review (APP2) Reviewed by aschultz on July 12, 2009 - # Jawbreaker 2 left me wondering: how small can a maze game be before it's not really a maze game any more? It lowers the bar further than I thought possible, as you run a clacking pair of teeth through five rows of dots with roving trap-doors between them. For all the cheery graphics, there isn't much to do, and yet it's more sophisticated than Jawbreaker, that silly clone of Gobbler, with enemies who actually get faster and smarter. Still, it's one of those games you can't b...
	The Witcher review (PC) Reviewed by jsgx3 on July 12, 2009 - # Interesting, this game is nothing if not interesting. In so many ways the game is just enough different from all the rest of the RPGs to be considered quite good, in other ways interesting is quite odd indeed.
	Sins of a Solar Empire review (PC) Reviewed by jsgx3 on July 12, 2009 - # This is a pretty darn good game. But it's just shy of being a great game. In fact it has improved my opinion of the RTS genre. I've had three RTS games that have really impressed me. The first of course is Age of Empires, I remember being very excited in my very first play of that game, the second was Company of Heroes, and this is the third. Interestingly it is the departures from the latest standard RTS fare that have re-ignited my interest in this form of PC gaming. Namely, it doesn't exactly...
	Mount & Blade review (PC) Reviewed by jsgx3 on July 12, 2009 - # I ran across this game about a year ago on another game website. I noticed it was made a few years ago and it was a bit of an "Indie" hit. while it intrigued me I didn't want to pay for what was reviewed as an "almost but not quite" type of game. A couple months ago I tried the Demo.
	Knight Lore: Majou no Ookami Otoko review (FDS) Reviewed by aschultz on July 12, 2009 - # Knight Lore was a breakout ZX Spectrum game where you walked through a huge castle presented in 45-degree-rotated view. You picked up reagents for a spell that would stop your nighttime lycanthropy, and each set of item locations offered a markedly different puzzle. The FDS version, which probably had to simplify some things due to memory constraints, tried to stretch itself with ungodly repetition. It achieved dilution, as anyone smart enough to solve its puzzles would see quickly.
	The Little Mermaid review (NES) Reviewed by joseph_valencia on July 11, 2009 - # “The Little Mermaid” is an amiable little game, very well suited to youngsters who enjoyed the 1989 Disney classic. Its developer is Capcom, who worked on other great 8-bit Disney games like “Duck Tales” and “Darkwing Duck.” In ranking “Mermaid” with the rest of the Capcom/Disney canon, I would say it’s about as good as “Adventures in the Magic Kingdom” but below “Darkwing” and “Tales.” It sure beats “Barbie.”
	Valkyrie no Bouken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu review (NES) Reviewed by aschultz on July 10, 2009 - # Valkyrie no Bouken: blah blah something grrarrh (VnB,) despite a fancy title, quickly establishes itself as mournfully bland before turning violently senseless. It achieves what personality it has by committing some baffling mistakes I haven't seen in other bad games. Unsure why anybody would write a translation patch for a game this weak, I Googled to find it was based on an anime series. I also found a detailed walkthrough on a dedicated website. Reading all the secrets hidden by the ga...
	Black review (PS2) Reviewed by bigcj34 on July 10, 2009 - # Come 2006, the Xbox 360 had just been released, the PlayStation 3 had been announced, and Sony fans are eagerly not waiting for one as it costs a billion quid to purchase it. So what’s the best way for Sony to drown the fans financial sorrows? They could keep the hits rolling when the PlayStation 2’s contemporaries have declared themselves dead, or they could push the hardware so much that fans can almost convince themselves they’re playing a 360 game. Or maybe they should focus on the future an...
	Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse review (GEN) Reviewed by joseph_valencia on July 09, 2009 - # “Mickey Mania” is a potent combination of technology, imagination and tradition. In other words, it’s the Disney paradigm expressed in video game form. I don’t know if Walt would have a created a game like this, but I’m certain he would be proud, and awed, of its achievement. “Pong” wasn’t even a glint in Atari’s eye when the old master passed in 1966. Could he have imagined that children would one day interact with the sort of images his studio animated? That the drawings of his company’s own a...
	Bloodstone review (PC) Reviewed by aschultz on July 09, 2009 - # Before Bloodstone, I always took boats in RPGs for granted. Maybe I'd have to complete a weird quest or even overpay a greedy merchant to acquire one, but really, there was little doubt I'd get a boat at some point. There'd always be someone there to help me with transport so I could save his world.
	Shadow of the Colossus review (PS2) Reviewed by Suskie on July 08, 2009 - # Shadow of the Colossus, more than any other game I’ve played, strives to be epic. The colossi, those enormous creatures that frequently steal the spotlight from protagonist Wander and represent the entirety of his opposition, live up to their name. With the light of his sword guiding him, Wander travels great distances to slay these foes, an act that he believes will bring his dead girlfriend back to life. Upon arriving at each destination, however, players are likely to be humbled by the...
	Darkwing Duck review (NES) Reviewed by joseph_valencia on July 08, 2009 - # “Darkwing Duck” is a video game that is always inventive and rarely redundant. Here is a game where there are discoveries in every level, be it in the form of new enemies or obstacles. It is true to the spirit of the early 1990s cartoon show that inspired it, right down to the title character’s spiel every time he arrives on the scene. “I am Darkwing Duck!” he says. He also trips on banana peels, and his expression when he runs out of hearts is exactly the kind I would expect him to put on. The ...
	Assassin's Creed review (PS3) Reviewed by True on July 08, 2009 - # Assassin’s Creed…
	Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom review (NES) Reviewed by joseph_valencia on July 07, 2009 - # DISCLAIMER: This review is based on the Japanese version of the game, which is much more lenient than the American one. Differences include enemies inflicting less damage, more lenient re-spawns after you die, more reasonable enemy and power-up placement, infinite continues, and a password system. Since the text is Japanese, I don’t have to waste time on the hack video game storytelling, which no doubt consisted of dialogue like “Hurry!”, “What’s going on?” and “We must continue to fight for ...
	Number Munchers review (APP2) Reviewed by aschultz on July 06, 2009 - # Number Munchers (NM) had six cut-scenes; Pac-Man had only three, and they weren't nearly as funny. It's more exciting than some lousy flash cards or even chalkboard problem solving races, and it has high score lists, with names, for each sub-game. And it's more ambitious than its better-known peers, the Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego series. The latter, after several plays through, become veiled, randomized multiple-choice exams a notch above vocabulary baseball and other didacti...
	Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos review (NES) Reviewed by joseph_valencia on July 06, 2009 - # Reader, I have played “Ninja Gaiden II”, and now I’m here to warn you before it’s too late. Before writing this review, I commented that this game was better than its predecessor, the execrable “Ninja Gaiden I”. I was under much pressure, defending my review from people who said I didn’t devote enough sentences to that game’s story. This game has a story too, told through such dialogue as “What’s going?”, “Who are you?”, “What the…” and my personal favorite “You have to hurry!” The villain is a ...
	BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger review (PS3) Reviewed by disco on July 06, 2009 - # Ragna the Bloodedge has a problem. He’s just arrived in town, but they’re already after him. Everyone. Soldiers, vigilantes, and even a few heroes. You can’t really blame them, though. When you’re systematically wiping out the government - especially a dictatorship as corrupt as the Librarium - things aren’t going to be easy. Considering how much destruction and death he’s caused, it’s no wonder there’s such a huge bounty on him. He can handle the stares and terrified gasps from the common folk,...
	Ninja Gaiden review (NES) Reviewed by joseph_valencia on July 04, 2009 - # You have to wonder why, in a game like “Ninja Gaiden”, a collision with a small bird can send a grown man flying. This is one of many considerations I made in the act of playing this game. Another one: if you’re fighting on the side of justice, why is everything out to get you? Your character, Ryu Hayabusa, is attacked from all sides, by all manner of creature, be it man or animal. I can understand man, but why the animals? I don’t think sparrows and hawks are that territorial. They can’t have a...
	Back to the Future II & III review (NES) Reviewed by joseph_valencia on July 03, 2009 - # I’ve been playing “Back to the Future II & III” for nearly two decades. The first time I played it was at the house of my mom’s friend, on her son’s Nintendo console. I couldn’t figure it out back then. Time passed, then came emulation. I was playing a lot of old games that I found were easier than I remembered, because I was older, smarter, more skilled. “Gee, why don’t I revisit that funky ‘Back to the Future’ game,” I thought. Into my computer the file was downloaded. I loaded up the emulator...
	Back to the Future review (NES) Reviewed by joseph_valencia on July 03, 2009 - # Maybe I’m getting softer, nostalgic, crazier…I don’t know what, but “Back to the Future” for the NES isn’t as bad as I remember it. Perusing my old review from a few years ago, one would get the impression that this game is AIDS.

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