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Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth picks up (more or less) right where Mask of Deception ’s Story ended. The game mechanics are pretty much the same as those from the previous game, with the addition of a very well done tutorial mode that not only provides a solid refresher on the base mechanics, it also does a very solid job of getting across some higher skill level techniques, to help if you get in a tight spot. The…
The Sakura Wars franchise is one that has, for most of the series run, been generally inaccessible for English speaking players. Yeah, we’ve had the anime adaptations of some of the games as TV shows, OVAs, and occasionally movies, but that’s pretty much been it. Finally, in 2001, the US received its first Sakura Wars game, Sakura Wars: So Long My Love , which was the first new game in the series on the PS2, and…
The first two Marvel Ultimate Alliance games, and their predecessors in the X-Men Legends series, felt like love letters to Marvel Comics. They had a wide variety of characters who you could team up in different ways – with special modifiers based on characters shared history, and a variety of costumes and side missions that played off with that history. With Team Ninja developing MUA3, I had a hope that they would…
I haven’t played a lot of visual novels – aside from Super Robot Wars V . Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception , like SRW V, is a hybrid of a visual novel and a tactical RPG, though one with a more linear narrative to it. The End is the Beginning It is important to mention first that Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception is a sequel. The first game, Utawarerumono , was a fantasy story that over the course of the work had the…
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Jun 13, 2013
I was going to do a title like "TRPGs for Video Gamers", except that title is confusing and redundant, as I'm not defining what TRPGs are, and the term "gamer" was coined when RPGs and hobby board games started expanding the group of people that would be defined as "people who play games as a hobby" out of realm of miniatures wargames into a boatload of other stuff. Anyway, I've been putting a...
Jun 5, 2013
Rather then just daily flooding my blog with posts about my Let's Play, I'm posting an embed of the YouTube Playlist I'm putting the videos on. Any comments on the videos can be done here. Future installments will be on this playlist at about one per day. Please let me know what you think of the Let's Play, and anything that you think I can do to improve! Note: Currently I've uploaded through e...
Jun 1, 2013
I've decided to try my hand at doing a Let's Play again, with a Let's Play of Halo 4. Parts 1 & 2 went up earlier this week. Part 1: and Part 2: There will be an audio difference between Parts 1 & 2, as I was, well, using my webcam mike for Part 1 instead of my condenser mike. Also, there will be a little detachment from the audio and the gameplay as I'm recording my audio on a different device...
May 1, 2013
This week we come to the conclusion of the Best of the Rest for 1988-1989, with the last 10 titles on the list. Opening Music: 'Super Buck II' by Estradasphere - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00577/ Closing Music: 'Of Whips and Strings' by Super Guitar Bros. - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02480/ Notes: Yeah, I kind of messed up with my spreadsheet, causing me to put a game on the list twice, leadi...
Apr 19, 2013
In this episode of the Nintendo Power Retrospectives, we continue our way through the Best of the Rest, with two movie licensed games, two puzzle platformers, and two shoot-em-ups. Opening Music: 'Super Buck II' by Estradasphere Closing Music: 'Mounted-Machine Gun Funk' by Beatdrop
Apr 10, 2013
This week I'm finally getting back to reviewing a more current video game - Vanquish, a joint by Shinji Mikami and developed by Platinum Games. That's a good pedigree for Gameplay, but how is it for story? Excerpt from the William Tell Overture Performed by Kevin MacCloud http://www.incompitech.com Released under Creative Commons license. Notes: I'd originally intended to attach this video to t...
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