Tag: 2009 Release

Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery (DS)

(Review archived from January 31, 2018) Do you have any particular games or game series that you enjoy despite some commonly held negative consensus? Assassin’s Creed is that for me. I won’t try to defend it, because many of those common criticisms ring true (occasionally janky controls, artificial extension of playtime through open world shenanigans,…

February 27, 2023
King’s Quest I: Quest for the Crown [AGDI] (PC)

(Review archived from March 6, 2015) King’s Quest I: Quest for the Crown represents one of my earliest exposures to PC gaming proper. Although I had my trusty NES console growing up (and much later an SNES that I saved up enough money to purchase myself), I never had my own computer until I entered…

February 19, 2023
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…

February 17, 2023
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?”…

February 17, 2023