Month: February 2023
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
(Review archived from January 16, 2015) This isn’t my first play through of Link to the Past by any stretch of the imagination, but it is my first in quite a number of years. In many ways this was the first game in the Zelda series to have begun the process of codifying the lore…
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BioShock 2 (PC/Steam)
(Review archived from January 7, 2015) If popular opinion is to be believed, Bioshock 2 is a game that suffers under the shadow of the remarkable first game in the series, which is mostly regarded as being the better of the two journeys into the depths of Rapture (that is, if one can actually classify…
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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES)
(Review archived from December 5, 2014) It’s been quite a number of years since I played through this game, but it’s one that I’ve always been fond of. The first point people tend to make about this game is how different it is from the first game (and indeed the entirety of the rest of…
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LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (PC/Steam)
(Review archived from December 5, 2014) First let me say that this is a great game. It maintains the classic “collect all the stuff” game play of other Lego titles, as well as the trademark humor and exploration, but it also does a few things differently. Specifically the spells that you learn throughout the course…
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Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines (PSP)
(Review archived from November 18, 2014) After completing Assassin’s Creed II, I went back in for 100% completion on all the collectibles. The trouble is that while I still wasn’t quite ready to leave the world of Assassin’s Creed behind, I also wasn’t ready to dive into a full length AC adventure yet either. So…
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The Legend of Zelda (NES)
(Review archived from November 18, 2014) For me this was the game that started all. I received a shiny new NES console along with this game on a fateful Christmas morning in 1987 in the form of a gift from my Mom. I had never really been bitten by the arcade craze partly due to…
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Assassin’s Creed II (PC/Steam)
(Review archived from November 9, 2014) Time for a triple-A action adventure title! I played through the first title last year, and I enjoyed that one quite a lot as well, but every time I mentioned how much I enjoyed the first one, inevitably someone would retort, “Yes, but have you played the second one?”…
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Super Castlevania IV (SNES)
(Review archived from November 2, 2014) This game is a masterpiece. It is impeccably made and so well put together that it’s extremely difficult to find flaw with it. Some of the changes to core gameplay (8 way whip control, ‘whip waggling’, and controlling jumps in midair), might not be to everyone’s fancy but that comes…
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Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse (NES)
(Review archived from November 2, 2014) Here we come to the absolute pinnacle of the Castlevania trilogy on the NES. This game is famous for pushing the NES to the absolute limits of its hardware, and it was long considered a benchmark for NES emulator accuracy due to its demanding nature. This truly is an…