Reviews by Synonymous

Reader PSP

Lunar: Silver Star Harmony review

Note: This review covers the Japanese release of the game. The first thing nearly anyone will note in a review of Harmony of Silver Star is that it is the fourth incarnation of its story (the sixth, if you count the novels and drama CDs…

Synonymous · February 14, 2010

Reader Game Boy Advance

bit Generations: Boundish review

Humorist Lore Sjöberg on Pong: Look. Table tennis is not that interesting of a game. TV is not that interesting of a medium. I can't imagine why combining the two was such a hit, but hey, it was the early seventies, when corduroy was king…

Synonymous · December 2, 2008

Reader PC Review of the Week

Trilby's Notes review

I keep praising Ben Croshaw for his technical prowess, but, man, is Trilby's Notes one polished title. After two installments that frequently impressed but whose chinks betrayed their homemade origins, AGS developer and acclaimed smartass…

Synonymous · November 2, 2008

Reader Game Boy Advance

bit Generations: Coloris review

And I was so looking forward to this. Coloris is renowned as one of the better Bit Generations titles, a color-matching game where you live or die by the refinement of your visual palette. Gameplay videos looked almost avant-garde in their…

Synonymous · May 31, 2008

Reader Arcade

The King of Dragons review

Golden Axe attracts a lot of flak nowadays, so perhaps it takes a lesser game to demonstrate all it did right. King Arthur to Axe's Conan, The King of Dragons differentiates itself with a supposedly brainier RPG approach to the genre, but…

Synonymous · May 25, 2008

Reader Game Boy Advance

bit Generations: Dialhex review

For a bit, I was on the fence as to whether Dialhex was a worthy puzzle title. Then I looked up during play one evening to discover that it was now 2:30 a.m. and I had neglected my very imminently-due Accounting homework. The title has a…

Synonymous · May 3, 2008

Reader DS

Contact review

Contact has drawn strong comparisons to a few other games, but it reminded me most of Secret of Evermore - of that 16-bit Mana substitute's Frankenstein-like attempt to construct an RPG story without the slightest charm or spark of life…

Synonymous · April 25, 2008

Reader PC

7 Days a Skeptic review

7 Days a Skeptic is a Jason X tribute. That's one genre for which life is simply too short. It was produced by Ben Croshaw, maestro of the AGS adventure game-creation program, and as such boasts many admirable technical achievements. They…

Synonymous · November 22, 2007

Reader DS

Nodame Cantabile review

You haven't read Nodame Cantabile either, have you? Conceived as a manga, adapted for both animated and live-action drama, highly praised as all three, yes, but that's not the point - any import gamer interested in the DS version is…

Synonymous · November 13, 2007

Reader PC

5 Days a Stranger review

I feel a bit dirty reviewing 5 Days a Stranger, it having been brought to my attention via a tiresome fan board-spamming campaign. "Hey, have you heard of this series? You gotta try it! It's just like Clock Tower! Really!" No. That said: 5…

Synonymous · October 9, 2007