Staff reviews
4,689 reviews · showing 2,181–2,200
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Thunder Force VI review
So, the question for all Thunder Force fans concerns the game's difficulty, something that every shoot-them-up masochist thrives on. Will you bleed out of your eye-balls, curled into nothing more but a pathetic lump of flesh in the corner…
Dark Eternal · March 22, 2011
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Staff PlayStation HG exclusive
Thunder Force V: Perfect System review
The Pièce de résistance, is the Final Guardian. He is so alien in his prettiness, so well animated, so deliciously cruel, that you begrudgingly endure how unfair he is. Beating him is hard enough, but what’s worse is that if you don’t beat…
Marc Golding · March 22, 2011
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Staff Genesis HG exclusive
Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar review
There's a story here somewhere, but it doesn't matter much--this is a side-scrolling shooter after all. And the story is especially irrelevant when the developers, Technosoft, changed things up when they released Thunder Force V packaged…
Marc Golding · March 19, 2011
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Staff Arcade HG exclusive
Thunder Force AC review
Thunder Force AC got things backwards. It is a book based on a movie. It went straight to DVD, only to be released in theaters the next year.
Winston Wolf · March 17, 2011
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Staff Genesis HG exclusive
Thunder Force III review
Amazingly, on a system inundated with side-scrolling shoot 'em ups, TFIII managed to shine. Critics, shooter fanatics, and casual players alike, found common ground with this cartridge.
Marc Golding · March 17, 2011
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Staff Genesis Review of the Week HG exclusive
Thunder Force II review
The ideal world is a pipedream. The majority of Thunder Force II is rotten.
Gary Hartley · March 15, 2011
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation review
Though Dragon Quest VI features an interesting and surprisingly complex plot, that’s not actually its most impressive accomplishment. The game probably could have done just as well without doing anything interesting with its plot because…
Jason Venter · March 15, 2011
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Staff Sharp X1 HG exclusive
Thunder Force review
Your ship moves constantly — your input is simply to determine what direction it's moving in at any given time. Making all this movement a bit tricky are the enemies, who tend to constantly swarm your ship as you aimlessly work through…
Rob Hamilton · March 14, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Breath of Death VII: The Beginning review
What would you prefer? Sizable boosts to your health and magic or smaller ones to agility, offense and defense? A powerful spell that assaults one monster or a weaker one that hits everything? A strong healing spell or a weaker one that…
Rob Hamilton · March 12, 2011
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Staff Arcade Review of the Week HG exclusive
Vigilante review
Somewhere in between things got goofy. Somehow between the two titans, the earth and the heavens, there were noxious fumes in the atmosphere. Some time in 1988, there was Vigilante.
Winston Wolf · March 11, 2011
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Lylian: Episode 1: Paranoid Friendship review
Some time into her stay, she mysteriously finds her restraints loose and door unlocked. Free to explore the bleak and darkened corridors of the institute in search of donuts and a kidnapped Bob, the child encounters many bizarre phenomena…
Wolf Queen · March 10, 2011
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey review
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is something of a departure from Atlus's more recent first-party titles: it is very unlike Persona 3 and Persona 4. It is relatively light on plot (and named characters), and instead is much more focused…
Lassarina Aoibhell · March 9, 2011
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Silent Hill 3 review
The start of the downward spiral.
Marc Golding · March 9, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Bulletstorm review
The game’s a riot, and if supposed top-tier titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops and Killzone 3 are any indication of the degree of stagnation the genre is suffering from, then Bulletstorm is exactly the kick in the nuts that mainstream…
Mike Suskie · March 8, 2011
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Staff PC
One Chance review
One Chance is a bad game for obvious reasons. The graphics are poor, the music is repetitive, the guy walks slowly, the story is silly, player interaction is minimal, and victory is achieved through repetition instead of mastery. Its claim…
Zigfried · February 26, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Mass Effect 2 review
If I’m struggling to record my thoughts on Mass Effect 2 it’s because it excels on so many fronts and does so many things right that it’s hard to settle on just one thing. So I’ll ramble in a word document instead, talk about a few things…
Gary Hartley · February 24, 2011
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Staff PC
Canabalt review
I view people who subscribe to the holy book of Canabalt the same way that Orson Scott Card intended readers to view Xenocide's Qing-Jao: as obsessive and deranged failures, compulsively tracing lines in wood until they realize they've…
Zigfried · February 23, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Antipole review
The gimmick is simple. Go to the right and win. You can jump, you can shoot, and you can invert gravity within a certain radius of the character. And that's it. There's no plot or villain, just you, a plasma rifle, and a hellish maze of…
Josh Higley · February 22, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night review
On the other hand, the Reverse Castle possesses the Crissaegrim. This sword, only obtainable as a dropped item by a particular monster (one so weak, you'd never expect it to hold something so godly) is one of my all-time guilty pleasures…
Rob Hamilton · February 10, 2011
