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Taiko no Tatsujin Drum ‘n’ Fun: Plastic Drums and Music Most Definitely Mix
A little while ago, I offered my first impressions on the demo version of Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! for Nintendo Switch. I came away from the experience less than enamoured with the game’s...
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Delving into Musou: Warriors Orochi
Regular readers will know that, for a little while now, I’ve been posting videos of my experiences with Warriors Orochi. So I figured it was probably time I wrote about it! This realisation comes at a...
View ArticleAtari A to Z: The Last Starfighter
Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada. Any kid who watched the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter longed to hear those...
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Warriors Wednesday: The Solid Whack You Can Deliver with Wood
Things are getting noticeably more difficult as we approach the conclusion of the Samurai campaign in Warriors Orochi. Today’s mission sees our intrepid heroes facing off against a selection of...
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Waifu Wednesday: The Hundred Honeys Project – Sitri’s Pick
Well, it’s been a while since we last checked in with the Honeys, so by popular request (all right, one person asked) it’s high time we paid them a visit. Today I decided to let in-game assistant Sitri...
View ArticleAtari ST A to Z: Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts
We all have games that we enjoy a bunch, but are absolutely no good at whatsoever. For me, one of those games is Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts… in pretty much any incarnation. The Atari ST version was a pretty...
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Goodbye, Ruby
It’s a personal post today. I’m not going to apologise for that, because it’s important to me, and I’m sure all of you reading this understand that too. Today, we suffered a great loss in our family:...
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New Game Plus: That One Perfect Shot
Do you beat games? I do. Speaking to a lot of game-playing friends in person and online, it transpired that relatively few people I know seem to start a game and see it through to completion in the...
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Dragalia Lost: You Don’t Pay My Sub
A while back, I wrote about how Granblue Fantasy spreads out what would be the “endgame” experience of a more conventional MMO throughout its entire duration. And, unsurprisingly, given the developer...
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Around the Network
Whew, nearly went to bed without the weekly roundup. That would never do now, would it? It’s been… a tough week, I won’t lie. Well, actually, it’s been a tough few weeks due to one thing or another,...
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Sunday Driving: If You’re Not in First Place, You’re Not Gonna Win
Who’d have thought it, eh? It’s amazing the kind of inane stupidity that spills out of one’s mouth while attempting to concentrate on something else. This week we continue our attempts to master...
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The MoeGamer Podcast: Episode 13 – Don, Don, Don, Don, Dodododododo KA
It’s time for a new episode of The MoeGamer Podcast with me and my co-host Chris Caskie of MrGilderPixels! The MoeGamer Podcast is available in several places. You can subscribe to my channel on...
View ArticleAtari A to Z: Miner 2049’er
“Platforms and ladders”. That’s what we used to call platformers before the more well-established, compact term we use today really took off. Actually, there is a bit of a distinction; when one is...
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PS2 Essentials: Ace Combat: Squadron Leader
The Ace Combat series is a jewel in Namco’s crown that people sadly seem to forget about quite often — though hopefully the seventh installment due early in 2019 will rectify that to an extent. The...
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Warriors Wednesday: The God of War’s Windmill Blade
We’re nearly there! On the Samurai Warriors campaign, that is. Yes, it’s the penultimate mission of the first phase of our Warriors Orochi playthrough, meaning that next time around we get to wail on...
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Waifu Wednesday: Project Zero Protagonists
It’s a group Waifu Wednesday this week, because the things I’m going to mention apply to the assembled ensemble cast of all the Project Zero games… well, those that I’ve played so far, anyway! At the...
View ArticleAtari ST A to Z: Haunted House
Sometimes you feel nostalgia for something not because it was “good”, but because you associate it with happy times. One such example of this from among the library of Atari ST games I’ve played over...
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Project Zero 4: Touched by the Moon
And so it is that we come to the fourth installment in the Project Zero series: a game that never came West in an official capacity. Known as Zero: Tsukihame no Kamen in its native Japan and Mask of...
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New Game Plus: Don’t Call Him “Daddy”
Today we continue to test my point-and-shoot skills as we crack on with Project Zero’s postgame. Having cleared ten of the challenges in Mission Mode, things are starting to get a whole lot more...
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Digitiser: The Show – The “Gaming Show Broadcasters Are Too Scared to Make”
Before the mess that is today’s Internet, gaming fans were a bit more limited in where they could get their information from. There were a variety of gaming magazines that came and went over the course...
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