What ever happened to the world map?

I’ve been playing Crisis Core on PSP a lot recently. In actual fact, I bought a PSP pretty specifically for this title, and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Although when I say I’ve played it ‘a lot’, what that means in reality is that I’ve played it for 17 hours and have already beaten the [...]

‘Geeks Rock Hardest’ – It’s Offical

Back in 2002, a momentous moment in both games and music (in the days before Guitar Hero and Rock Band, long before their paths were intrinsically linked) seemed to slip under the radar quite unnoticed. Nobuo Uematsu, primary composer of the Final Fantasy series of games, heard word that two lesser known Square-Enix musical producers (Kenichiro Fukui [...]

Review – Dinosaur King (DS)

Educational games always feel that little bit… peculiar. They’re slightly strange and alien, and not always in a bad way, but there’s always something not quite right. It feels a little like your first kiss (and given most of the target age-group of educational games won’t have had one of those yet, allow me to [...]

Review – Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (DS)

There used to be feeling among the hardcore Final Fantasy fans that you weren’t truly hardcore unless you had played Final Fantasy Tactics. The main Final Fantasy series was widely available and spin-offs such as Mystic Quest and the SaGa/Legend series were considered watered down. Tactics was just plain hard to get your hands on [...]

Review – Pool Party (Wii)

Everybody knows that looks aren’t everything. We also know that we’re not to judge a book by its cover. This are very good philosophies and excellent values to be teaching the younger folk in society, yet however hard we try not to, every now and again we do it automatically. I did it with Pool Party – and I’m not proud of myself for that…

Review – Dragon Quest: The Chapters of the Chosen (DS)

Do you ever get the distinct feeling that you’ve been somewhere before, even though you know there’s no chance you ever could have been? It’s like a kind of déjà-vu, only a little more unsettling, because while it’s entirely plausible that the same black cat that crossed your path two minutes ago could have gone [...]

Review – Namco Museum Remix (Wii)

Unfortunately, I have been having some issues with my ISP recently (the issue being that they are completely unwilling and incapable of actually providing me with internet service – makes me wonder what they actually do at all) so unfortunately I’ve not been able to get online frequently or for very long, ruling out frequent updates [...]

Review – Mario Kart Wii

Some games are very, very serious indeed. There’s plenty to be said for true-to-life physics, painstaking motion capture, and AI so frighteningly realistic it’s hard not to believe that the game’s developers haven’t been going around stealing peoples’ souls and storing them on little silver discs, but deep down, we’re all glad that for every [...]