Reviews by Benjamin Woodhouse, page 6

Baseball review

Baseball delivers an experience as generic as its name. Some may view this as a glaring flaw, but this Game Boy launch title revels in its simplistic graphics and arcade style gameplay. However, instead of building on that solid…

woodhouse · September 18, 2004

Reader PC

Mad Paradox review

To play Mad Paradox is to step into a world of mediocrity. It’s an RPG that skimps on all the ingredients that can make an RPG great. The battles are neither unique nor exciting, you’re given only an excruciatingly tiny area to explore…

woodhouse · July 28, 2004

Reader Game Boy

World Bowling review

Silly ethnocentric me, I had completely classified bowling as a purely American game. Entirely blocking out its ancient origins, I now thought of it only as a pasttime of inflated importance for men with thick, black-rimmed glasses or an…

woodhouse · July 16, 2004

Reader PlayStation

Inuyasha: A Feudal Tale review

Despite the name of this popular anime and manga, InuYasha’s focus bends slightly more in the direction of its female lead than toward its half-demon title character. Kagome Higurashi is a modern day Japanese schoolgirl who, by mystical…

woodhouse · July 3, 2004

Reader PC

The Queen of Heart '98 review

Watanabe Seisakujo is an interesting Japanese company. Obviously an impassioned collection of individuals, they seek to pay tribute to games that they admire. Apparently, some of those games are of an adult nature, as the group tends to…

woodhouse · June 18, 2004

Reader PC

Pretty Girl Makiro review

Pretty Girl offers a different perspective than most other adult bishoujo games. Disposing of the idea of a male lead character surrounded by a bevy of beautiful girls, the developers of this game made the main character a female... and…

woodhouse · May 23, 2004

Reader Game Boy Color

Chase H.Q. Secret Police review

Chase H.Q. must have made quite an impact in the arcade. Released in the late 80’s, the game was soon ported to most every console and handheld system in existence at the time. Most of these ports did their best to emulate the original’s…

woodhouse · May 23, 2004

Reader Game Boy

Chase HQ review

Before I became a licensed driver, many of my weekend nights were spent roaming the darkened aisles of the local arcade. On occasions when I had some extra money, a couple of my tokens would invariably end up in the belly of Chase H.Q…

woodhouse · May 23, 2004

Reader PC

Paradise Heights 2 review

Is it possible Paradise Heights achieved enough popularity to warrant a sequel? Could that game, so devoid of memorable or exciting characters and storyline, have succeeded based solely on its lascivious adult content? Hard to imagine, yet…

woodhouse · May 16, 2004

Reader NES

Casino Kid 2 review

The lifestyle of a high roller must be a difficult one to maintain, for the past year certainly has been a tough one for the Casino Kid. When we last left him, the Kid had just won over $1,000,000 from the vaunted King of the Casino. Now…

woodhouse · May 10, 2004

Reader PC

Time Stripper Mako review

Foster may have been the greatest bishoujo game developer ever, but the English speaking world would never know it. Only three of their products were ever translated, all a part of Otaku Publishing’s mid-90’s attempt to popularize the…

woodhouse · May 8, 2004