Reviews by threetimes

Journey review

ThatGameCompany have proved that it is possible to create a gorgeous and exhilarating game that does not rely on competition but celebrates the joys of online collaboration.

threetimes · March 19, 2012

Reader SNES HG exclusive

Its shortness is its strength, and there's no chance of getting bored since each stage only consists of a few screens. However, that's also its weakness, and it's a shame they didn't make more use of the three characters, or introduce some…

threetimes · March 6, 2012

Reader PlayStation 2 Review of the Week HG exclusive

Shadow Hearts From the New World review

Cola for Kids

threetimes · November 20, 2011

Reader NES HG exclusive

Dream Master review

This nightmare is a delightful dream for any retro gamer.

threetimes · November 10, 2011

Reader PlayStation 3 HG exclusive

Eternal Sonata review

The creative premise of this action RPG is that the composer Chopin is a playable character who inhabits a world that he thinks is a dream. Here, instead of playing the piano and composing music, he fights alongside a collection of teenage…

threetimes · July 12, 2011

Reader PlayStation 2

Everblue review

You start the game as Leo, a rookie diver on the Caribbean island of Daedalus with this mysterious death in the back of your mind, and a lot to learn about diving.

threetimes · July 12, 2011

Reader DS

My World, My Way review

My Way or the Highway! Playing My World My Way (MWMW) is a liberating experience, at first. For those of us who are used to RPGs that involve endless random encounters, slow experience gains, or bosses that are either too easy or too…

threetimes · August 12, 2009

Reader Game Boy Color

Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible II review

This is one of those Japanese RPGs that defines the term "under the radar", but hopefully a new (fan) translation will change all that. It was first released in 1993 on the Gameboy and ported to the GBC in 1999, but with few changes…

threetimes · July 21, 2009

Reader PlayStation

Swagman review

What a strange combination. An E (everyone from the age of three upwards) rated game, only released in Europe on the PS1 and Saturn, that was developed by CORE as the game they made after the first Tomb Raider enjoyed such phenomenal…

threetimes · February 11, 2009

Reader PlayStation

The Fifth Element review

Unbelievable!! Kill cops and aliens (lots), fall off ledges (lots), hear opera music and see Zorg again (a tiny bit). The Fifth Element, as most people who have any interest in it will know, is based on the popular and unusually artful…

threetimes · February 8, 2009

Reader PlayStation Review of the Week

Shadow Madness review

Read this game now! Question: Why should you bother playing a game that was first released in 1999, and which was not popular even then, and is even less so now? Answer: Because it is one of the funniest and most literate video games in…

threetimes · February 2, 2009

Reader Mac

American McGee's Alice review

Forget Walt Disney's sanitised version of Alice in Wonderland, and return to the roots of the Alice mythos by entering the bizarre, insane and violent fantasy world, created by Lewis Carroll's febrile imagination, and recreated here, in…

threetimes · January 27, 2009

Reader SNES

Metal Max Returns review

"Let's have a mano-a-mano, balls-to-the-wall, old school showdown!." These words, as uttered by Rodriguez (the guitar playing singer who will regale you with his songs, both before and during a one on one fight - where you are well-advised…

threetimes · January 22, 2009

Reader DS

My Little Pony Pinkie Pie's Party review

Before starting to write this review, I tried to think about who might read it. Unlikely to be the small children for whom this game is designed, and most likely to be some long suffering parent, trying to find a good reason to resist the…

threetimes · January 16, 2009

Reader DS

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure review

Sugar and spice and all things nice. That's what little girls are made of, and this game might seem as if it has been designed for girls only. The heroine, Cornet, is a horn-playing 16 year old lass who falls in love with a Prince; her…

threetimes · January 13, 2009

Reader DS

Theresia review

There are no zombies after your brains, no monsters trying to chop you up, no aliens intent on mass reproduction, and no battles. Yet Theresia is a fascinating (point and click) horror adventure, that kept me playing for hours at a time…

threetimes · January 12, 2009