I’m not usually a big fan of the point-and-click adventure genre. Myst never managed to keep my attention, despite the rave reviews it got way back when, and the one Kyrandia game I played only managed to entertain because of the constant humor. I haven’t even gotten more than half an hour into The Longest …
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Review – Trace Memory
Monday, April 23rd, 2007 by chrisThe Worlds of Power book series
Monday, April 9th, 2007 by chrisStrange as it may seem, video games and reading have always been closely related in my mind. When I was four years old, I would watch my older brother play RPGs and other text-heavy games. After a year or so of observation, I could more or less understand what was going on. Eventually, I figured …
Puzzle Quest – I’ll see your red gem and raise you three yellow ones!
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 by chrisAs you’ve probably heard from other places, one of the “next big things” is a recently released game by the name of Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords.
I challenge you… to a duel even more ridiculous than turn-based combat!
Puzzle Quest can best be described as a …
Why I play the games I play
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 by chrisPat’s article here about this particular subject interested me, and was obviously the inspiration for this article. Props to him for coming up with the idea of a “why” article of this type.
Since I haven’t had much better to do with my thinking time lately, I’ve been thinking about why I play games. I …
Review – Rogue Galaxy
Thursday, March 15th, 2007 by chrisIt’s not often you come across two games released in quick succession that sound as similar as Final Fantasy XII and Rogue Galaxy. FFXII has Sky Pirates; RG has Space Pirates. Both start off in a desert town. FFXII takes several plot points from Star Wars, RG takes several characters from Star Wars. The main …
A sense of accomplishment in video games
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 by chrisWhat is it that makes a game particularly memorable?
When you finish a game, you want to feel as if you’ve accomplished something. By the time you beat some games, you want to really feel you’ve made the game world a better place through your actions (or, perhaps, you have intentionally left a horrifying wake of …
(Re)Translations present & forthcoming
Friday, March 2nd, 2007 by chrisThose who have played the Final Fantasy VI remake for GBA have surely noticed something in addition to the new Espers and dungeons.
Apparently the game was actually partially retranslated, whether due to the fact that mysterious ninja video game company TOSE actually did the port or because somebody along the localization chain realized it might …
Best Game Ever – Master of Magic
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 by chrisBack when Microprose was still making games, they came out with a bunch of ideas for similarly themed titles spanning multiple universes. Although Master of Orion, Civilization, and X-Com were all well and good (that is to say, well, very good), my favorite was always Master of Magic. Master of Magic took the best parts …
Review – Space Rangers 2: Rise of the Dominators
Monday, February 19th, 2007 by chrisIt’s hard to find a recent game with a name more cheesy than Space Rangers 2: Rise of the Dominators. It has all the classiness of a corny low-budget science fiction movie.
In fact, its name could be the main reason why nobody’s noticed the game, despite a lot of acclaim from reviewers. So much so …
Farewell to the Game Boy
Monday, February 5th, 2007 by chrisSince I, like many of my fellow videolamer staff, now have a DS Lite, I am enjoying many new and interesting games. It even has backwards compatibility, making my GBA titles more vibrant and colorful than ever. But I was left with a small pang of sadness when I noticed that the original Game Boy …
