Tag: Remake
Tales of Phantasia (PS1)
(English Translation by Phantasian Productions) Of all the game genres I write about on this blog, longform RPGs are the ones most likely to induce a serious case of writer’s block. After investing so many hours into a given game, I wind up painting myself into a corner trying to devise some kind of succinct…
Salamander Portable: Gradius 2 (PSP)
(Review archived from January 4, 2019) This is the tale of two reviews, one which addresses the base game of Gradius 2, and another which speaks to this specific port of the original MSX title. In terms of the game itself, Gradius 2 is … fine … I guess. It expands a bit on the arcade game, but these…
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (PSP)
(Review archived from April 4, 2018) I definitely took the long way around on this one, but in the end the journey was highly worthwhile. Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions is an enhanced PSP port of Final Fantasy Tactics (which originally appeared on PS1). Among these enhancements, the most noteworthy might be the…
Super Mario All-Stars: Super Mario Bros. 3 (SNES)
(Review archived from January 10, 2018) I’m certain that entire swaths of internet text have been devoted to lauding the greatness of this game, but I’m going to boil it down to the single concept that stuck with me this time around. Meticulous. Certainly not a groundbreaking revelation by any means and if you read…
Maniac Mansion Deluxe [LucasFan Games] (PC)
(Review archived from January 20, 2016) I had beaten this game on the NES, but never on the PC which to my mind is probably the definitive version. In order to mix things up a bit I opted for the LucasFan Games remake version of the Maniac Mansion (thus the Deluxe designation), and I was not disappointed. The updated…
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…
Super Mario All-Stars: Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels (SNES)
(Review archived from March 6, 2015) Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels is a Super Mario fever dream hallucinated through a fog of several consecutive bad acid trips and moments of religious epiphany. The gaming world tends to think of Shigeru Miyamoto as that super fun uncle from your childhood who was always cracking jokes…
Super Mario All-Stars: Super Mario Bros. (SNES)
(Review archived from February 28, 2015) Ya know it’s funny; pretty much every time I fire up Super Mario Bros. it’s the original NES version, and I always forget about this updated release of the game. And that’s a shame really because I have no qualms declaring this to be the definitive version of the…
River City Ransom EX (GBA)
(Review archived from February 26, 2015) River City Ransom is an interesting game in that it was never astoundingly popular on the NES at the time of its release. It was later that the retro gaming scene contributed enormously to the popularity this game has today. And with good reason. IMO this game is the…