Throughout the years, I have heard people claiming the incoming death of AAA titles and I have always thought that such a position was fairly naive. After all, I don’t think that the demand for AAA titles is going anywhere. However, recently, I’ve come to question my belief. The awful business practices of video game…
To the bulk of people, Shin Megami Tensei (“SMT”) is just that weird title that accompanies the word Persona on their favourite games. It’s not hard to see why there’s this disconnect. After all, the SMT series is a little strange. Basically, there is a larger SMT metaseries that includes games such as Persona, Digital…
Let’s be honest, every company out there gets accused of ignoring fans at some point. Every post relating to Square-Enix has a host of people shouting for a Final Fantasy VII remake, with many of them baffled why Square wouldn’t go to the enormous expense to bring that dream to reality. Whether it’s EA, Activision,…
The much-beloved Earthbound was released today on the Wii U’s Virtual Console. It’s strange that I can say with quite a bit of authority that this game is the biggest reason to own Nintendo’s fledgling system right now. Considering the original cartridge for this game sells for $200 on ebay, that isn’t really surprising. It…
Mega Man 9 was a pretty big deal when it was first released back in 2008. It garnered a lot of praise, and led to a direct sequel pretty quickly. It was created near the beginning of the retro gaming boom, and is one of the best, and most successful examples of how to pull…
Civilization V originally launched with a bit of a whimper. Fans, who were used to the sheer complexity of the previous instalments, were a little disappointed at the comparatively simplistic approach taken by the Civ V team. Gone was micromanaging and city-based happiness, and the one unit per tile idea, while admirable, never seemed to…
Sorry about Tuesday, internet. I was so busy that I didn’t even remember it was Tuesday. Anyway, today, everyone gets to enjoy another music post, or as I like to call it: posting Youtube clips and calling it a blog post. Today, I thought I’d look at some medleys. It takes a lot of skill…
When I first reviewed the Wii U, I dismissed its social network, the Miiverse, as something that was better suited for children and not something that I’d ever find myself using. It is a twitter-style system where gamers were able to post things about their favourite games using one-hundred characters or less (Since expanded to…
Sorry for Tuesday, internet. I had cleared the entirety of my Muramasa Rebirth review, and then my computer froze and my usual backups apparently didn’t work. Today I want to talk about Square Enix’s decision to include free DLC for those who preorder Lightning Returns. These people will get a costume puts the eponymous protagonist…
Mistranslations for the Modern Gamer 