Reviews by Alicia Ashby
3 reviews
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier review
RPGs are stereotyped as one of the more intellectual game genres, all about story and plot and meaning. Endless Frontier bucks this stereotype pretty hard. It’s a self-consciously dopey, disposable sort of story that’s little more than an…
Alicia Ashby · June 2, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 review
The character imbalance may irk some fans but doesn't actually make the game less fun, and for the most part Persona 4 has its own identity, plot, and tone wholly independent of Persona 3's. Given what a massively influential title Persona…
Alicia Ashby · December 6, 2008
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Soul Nomad & The World Eaters review
Soul Nomad, much like Phantom Brave before it, tries very hard to tell a serious story while also purveying the jokes that it assumes Nippon Ichi fans can’t live without. The result is a game that lurches awkwardly from dramatic to goofy…
Alicia Ashby · September 25, 2007
