Tag: Theme: Sword & Sorcery
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…
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (GBC)
As opposed to the Zelda games I’ve reviewed previously on the blog, this was my first playthrough of Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. Nostalgia goggles can definitely have an impact when playing through retro games, so it’s always interesting to come at an older game with a completely fresh set of eyes, free from…
Romancia: Dragon Slayer Jr. (Famicom)
(Review archived from March 26, 2023)(English Translation by DvD Translations) Charitably it needs to be said that Romancia was easily the most “modern feeling” iteration of Dragon Slayer at the time of its release. Among other things it has the distinction of being the first Dragon Slayer game in which your sword attack has a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
