Reviews by timrod
29 reviews · showing 1–20
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Reader SNES HG exclusive
Live A Live review
It’s rare these days to see the Square-Enix name within a mile of anything original. “Rehashing sells” has been their motto for the past few years, to the detriment of the JRPG genre as a whole. However, Square wasn’t always like that…
timrod · April 29, 2009
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Reader PC
I-Fluid review
So there I was, browsing through the bowels of the Steam store looking for bargains during their post-Christmas sale. After going through some of the big-name stuff, I found a game called "I-Fluid" for sale. Looking it up on several gaming…
timrod · January 24, 2009
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Reader PC
The Longest Journey review
About a week ago, I got introduced to The Longest (-winded) Journey, which people told me was the best point-and-click adventure game ever made, and that I would instantly love it the second I began playing it. So I downloaded it…
timrod · December 30, 2008
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Reader SNES
3x3 Eyes: Juuma Houkan review
There comes a time in every man’s life when for the sake of a seemingly pointless competition he is required to review a game whose name is a number because he wasn’t lucky enough to be one of the twenty-six other people and get a letter…
timrod · November 14, 2008
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Reader PC
World of Goo review
In this day and age, marking a game as “casual” is usually a kiss of death, forever putting it into the same genre as non-games like Brain Age, Wii Fit, and Wii Music and killing off any hope of being bought by a core gamer audience. In…
timrod · November 9, 2008
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Reader Game Boy Advance Review of the Week
Mother 3 review
By all accounts, Mother 3 is a game that should never have been playable by an English-speaking audience. First you have Nintendo’s outspoken hatred of fans of the Mother/Earthbound series – their refusal to translate Mother 1+2 on the…
timrod · October 26, 2008
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Reader DS
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia review
Since time immemorial (read: 1997), Konami has promised a worthy sequel to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Every couple of years, the developers rise from their graves, and not even a long history of half-assed failures can stop them…
timrod · October 25, 2008
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Reader DS
Disgaea DS review
When I heard that Atlus/Nippon Ichi had decided to port the first Disgaea to the DS, I was shocked. For one thing, they’d already ported it to the PSP and had hinted at the port being a PSP exclusive. For a second, there was no way the…
timrod · September 27, 2008
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Reader DS
Time Hollow review
There’s been a rash of new DS titles recently – Kirby Super Star Ultra, the remake of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, and the craptacular Sonic Chronicles. Yet, out of all the releases this week, most people have forgotten about one that would…
timrod · September 26, 2008
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Reader DS
Lock's Quest review
THQ as a company can be summed up in one word: shovelware. All those bad movie tie-in games you see? That’s THQ. I don’t think THQ has ever published a worthwhile game in their entire history as a company. They’re attracted to bad games…
timrod · September 13, 2008
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Reader DS
Final Fantasy IV review
There are approximately three Final Fantasy games I can stand – those being Final Fantasy 4, Final Fantasy 5, and Final Fantasy 6. So naturally, when I heard about a remake of FFIV coming out for the DS with new graphics, I was almost…
timrod · August 1, 2008
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Reader SNES
Umihara Kawase review
Every puzzle game I have ever played on the SNES has sucked. First there’s the standard billion and one mahjong clones the Japanese consume like so much Pocky. Then there’s your fifty different Tetris games, and digitized versions of the…
timrod · July 5, 2008
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Reader DS HG exclusive
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift review
It’s no secret to most of the world that Square-Enix is a dying company. Their stock price has fallen 20% in the past year and their CEO has issued a memo telling the developers that they will be fired if they attempt to release anything…
timrod · July 2, 2008
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Reader PC HG exclusive
S4 League review
I’ve played a lot of bad Korean MMOs in my day: FlyFF, Ragnarok Online, ROSE, Trickster, and Pangya Golf, to name a few. However, the worst of them all was a game called Gunz: The Duel. The major problem with Gunz was that even though it…
timrod · June 23, 2008
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Reader PC HG exclusive
Dwarf Fortress review
Recently, there’s been a big fad in PC Gaming of so-called “independent” developers releasing games that had potential, but ultimately were garbage or not totally fleshed out. Then came Dwarf Fortress. Programmed entirely by one man under…
timrod · June 23, 2008
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Reader DS HG exclusive
The World Ends with You review
One of the biggest criticisms of post Final Fantasy 6 Square-Enix titles is Tetsuya Nomura, that being the character designer for pretty much every Square-Enix title that isn’t Dragon Quest related. Criticisms of Nomura include that he has…
timrod · April 17, 2008
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Reader Wii HG exclusive
No More Heroes review
Let's face it. Most games Suda51 has made were a complete and utter failure at being good. You had some of the latter Clock Towers, which were bad to begin with and overshadowed by the vastly superior Silent Hill. You had Killer7, which…
timrod · February 7, 2008
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Reader PC HG exclusive
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade review
If World of Warcraft could be summed up into one phrase, it would be either "bait and switch" or "false advertising". To understand how horrid World of Warcraft really is, you must first see through all of the lies put forth by its…
timrod · December 22, 2007
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Reader DS HG exclusive
Heroes of Mana review
It's been proven time and time again that Square-Enix cannot make anything that isn't a Final Fantasy style RPG. They had Ergheiz, the horrid FF-based attempt by Square to make a fighting game. They had Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, where…
timrod · December 21, 2007
