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My World of Final Fantasy hype train has been running for at least 15 years. Long before it was announced, long before it was even an idea in Hiroki Chiba’s head, I was daydreaming about a Final Fantasy monster-catching game. The good news is that World of Final Fantasy
PS 3
The 16-bit era for me was an especially sweet time for gaming. New gaming consoles such as the Mega Drive and Super Nintendo let developers really tighten up and refine game play from the last generation as well as of course adding a lot of atmosphere and polish. I personally
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One of those rare RPGs to be set in a space-based future, Phantasy Star was epic and awesome for more than just that reason. Its gameplay and characters were incredibly memorable and playing through the games was all the evidence gamers of 1989 (yep, this game was first released twenty
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Right now a lot of people are probably eyeing up FIFA 18 and asking themselves the annual question of whether to upgrade. In much the same way as the iPhone 8 which arrived last week, it’s difficult to weigh up the improvements and justify the cost for anyone who
PS 4
The Last Guardian is a bad game – at least, by every metric we use to talk about things in this medium. Its design is dated, it’s a technical mess, and the controls are sluggish and unresponsive. And yet despite all that, one thing kept coming to the surface in
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There’s a baseline level of quality when it comes to Mario, an assurance that – even with the most middling of titles – you’ll always have a good time. The franchise’s highest points are timeless, and used as benchmarks for the genre; platformers that marry tight and responsive controls,
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It’s incredible to think about how far Final Fantasy XIV has come. After a disastrous original launch back in 2010, a new development team led by Naoki Yoshida rebuilt the game almost entirely from the ground up, and it was relaunched as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn to
PS 4
Supermassive Games created Until Dawn to turn your expectations of trashy teen horror upside down. Overall I'd say they succeeded – the plot twists and revelations made the game. With Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, the developers tried to do the same thing but for the on-rails shooter genre.
PS 4
When a franchise lasts long enough, it adopts a personality. Keystone elements drive development, and become fan focal points. These eventually become the bedrock for entire communities. But every now and then, there’s an entry in a franchise that proves divisive – either because of its quality, or direction. Worst-case
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“The King of Fighters XIV is another King of Fighters, basically.” If I didn’t have a word count to consider, that’s the review I’d write, because it’s the most apt, succinct description of the game. The King of Fighters, as a franchise, is nothing if not