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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…
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Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (NES)
(Review archived from November 2, 2014) This is without a doubt the most unusual entry in the original NES trilogy, and in some ways this was the first Castlevania in the genre that would eventually take its namesake, the ‘metroidvania’ genre (Some would say that Symphony of the NIght is the first definitive entry, but all the…
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Castlevania (NES)
(Review archived from October 26, 2014) Ah … here we have a true classic. After playing Symphony of the Night, I had the urge to take it back to the source where it all began. Famous for its punishing difficulty, this is the one that started a legacy in gaming. I’ve beaten it on a…
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Costume Quest (PC/Steam)
(Review archived from October 26, 2014) A lightweight but enjoyable RPG brought to you from the mind of Tim Schafer. This one can get by on it’s wit, charm, and good looks alone. The story is that you’re a kid out trick-or-treating on Halloween in a town that’s mysteriously being overrun with Monsters. The hook…
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
(Review archived from October 10, 2014) This one has been in my backlog forever. I finally got around to playing it as part of my annual Halloween Gaming Blowout this year, and I had a blast. I finished it with 200.2% completion (with the help of a walkthrough), and was captivated by the masterful gameplay and…
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The Walking Dead: Season 2 (PC/Steam)
(Review archived from October 10, 2014) Telltale’s Walking Dead games are some of the best adventure games of this generation ever. After completing Season 2 I was blown away by the masterful storytelling Telltale manages to convey through their games, just as I was after playing through Season 1 last year. From a “pure game play” perspective…