There are lots of quests, side-quests and knick-knacks to collect like photos and music, and various other things throughout the world to find. None of that matters though if there isn’t a compelling central game to anchor it all. There isn’t one here. Button-mashing the same ability over again and trudging through page after page of repetitive dialogue isn’t how I like to spend my time gaming on the Nintendo DS or any other platform, and I can’t imagine anyone else would either despite the beautiful and nostalgic artstyle Solatorobo uses. In that regard, the game’s aesthetic is like a Siren call. Get lured in by the pretty surface, get disappointed by the shallow insides. If there’s any audience for Solatorobo it’s the very young, very inexperienced or very forgiving. But even then, for all the playing there is to do in Solatorobo it’s more akin to a Let’s Play video than a substantial video game.
The latest Ys release from XSEED may be the best one yet. A remake of the PC game from 1993, this snappy new version on the PSP hits (almost) all the right beats.
Yuji Naka, best known for his marvelous work as the head of Sonic Team, looks to dazzle games yet again, this time with Ivy the Kiwi?, the latest creation from his programing house, Prope.
Unless you’re especially enamored with the Samuari Shodown brand, Namco’ Soul Calibur series is still the king of the weapon-based fighter hill.
On a quest to revive a classic for the PSP, XSEED’s Lunar: Silver Star Harmony fully utilizes the graphical capabilities of a modern console while staying true to the elements that have made the original a cult classic. With its slew of captivating cut scenes and a soundtrack few titles could ever compete with, there’s no [...]
Lunar is back. The much-beloved RPG that first wowed gamers on the SEGA CD (and virtually every other console since) has returned in the form of Lunar: Silver Star Harmony, which looks to be the definitive version of the game. While the crew works on the review, we decided to reach out to Jimmy Soga, [...]
Virtual Vox Pop is a weekly open mic in which we ask you, the reader, to sound off on a particular topic. This week, it’s other games that could use the Half-Minute Hero treatment. Half-Minute Hero, as detailed in our hands-on time with XSEED’s RPG on speed, stripped the tediousness out of the role-playing genre [...]
If you were to ask to list my favorite genres, it would read something like this depending upon the day and mood: Fighters > Shooters/Shmups >Brawlers > Puzzlers > Action-Adventure and then, far in the distance, RPGs. All of the genres mention (save for action-adventure), lend themselves to quick and dirty gaming sessions - – [...]
