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Fable II: Good and bad (X360)

Fable II has a lot going for it. A huge world where everything can be bought from items and weapons to shops and houses. An alignment system that affects your looks and how people in the world react to you. An ability to choose the gender of your hero, buy ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Oct. 27, 2008

Phoenix Wright series saves the best for last (DS)

The Phoenix Wright series of the Ace Attorney franchise has certainly felt like a strange squeeze onto the DS considering there's very little that's new compared to the original gameboy advance iterations. It seems only the first game had a bonus act that used the DS to its nearly full ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Oct. 16, 2008

Saving Data~ (DS)

The Phoenix Wright series prides itself with storytelling that takes place in and around the crime scenes and court of law during each case. Much like games like Trauma Center or visual novels, the game uses a very Japanese presentation, that being a simplistic character over a background 2D style ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Sept. 26, 2008

Great music, fun game, could have been better (PC)

Seven Minutes has its own short story in mind, the gameplay itself is purely masocore, as eloquently put by the game's description. Death, again and again with little to no consequences, and a total 7 minutes to survive. The initial 7 minutes are trial and error before discovery leads to ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Sept. 18, 2008

The hidden story made my jaw drop (XBLM)

Braid has a story, hidden within its time-oriented gameplay elements that help sell it of Tim and his search for the princess. Even at the ending it left me guessing as to what it all meant. The gameplay itself is mind-bending, each time asking your mind once you've gotten used ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Sept. 18, 2008

An interactive novel (DS)

Hotel Dusk is an interactive visual novel. You can see what is happening while you're reading and starting the events yourself, but gameplay takes a backseat while the story does drives the game.The story focuses around Kyle Hyde, a former police detective whose partner Bradley went rogue three years ago. ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Sept. 7, 2008

A fun yet short DS title (DS)

If you've ever watched Hokuto no Ken/Fist of the North Star, you've seen Kenshiro lay waste to his enemies with his ATATATATATA Bruce Lee sounding attacks that blow his enemies to bits. Well that's exactly what you get to do in this game, but even better, it follows the plot ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Sept. 6, 2008

A less than steller entry in the series (X360)

The only other game I can compare this to is We Love Katamari, which is a game I had for the PS2 that is also part of the Katamari franchise. I did not play the original Katamari Damacy, so I can only compare We Love Katamari to Beautiful Katamari. I ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Sept. 4, 2008

Quite the Cosmology (PC)

Have you ever caught something out of the corner of your eye, and tried to follow it with your vision for a moment and realized nothing was there? Human beings have an uncanny reflex to follow an object with their eyes even if they don't want to if movement suddenly ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Aug. 31, 2008

A must play for PS3 owners (PS3)

Despite his appearance, Nathan Drake is a not so ordinary man. He can scale large walls, perform jumps and react faster than most of us can only imagine. He can take down entire squads of well-armed men with only a T-shirt and jeans. But that is only when Nathan is ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Aug. 21, 2008

It leaves you wanting more (PS3)

Metal Gear Solid 4, in a lot of ways, feels like more than a game. Its cinematic elements play a much greater role than any of the gameplay, which is easily substandard to the story-telling. The action thrill ride of some of the events, the twists in the plot, and ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on Aug. 17, 2008

Episode 1: Bugtastic (PC)

So I played through American McGee's Grim in a very short time during the free 24 hour period. It seemed to take about half-an-hour to beat the first episode. The game has a story element that starts the game off, where Grimm is the narrator and the townsfolk talk and ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on July 31, 2008

Lived up to the hype (PC)

I was not a huge fan of the turn-based isometric Civilization series of old. Civilization III was a good game that I played once or twice, but it never had enough to really make me strive for just one more turn. The Civilization games are empire building turn-based strategy games, ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on July 22, 2008

I love this game. (PC)

Despite its less than stellar name and relatively unknown status, it's one of the best games I have ever played. A game that blends the colorful world of casual gaming and the endless gameplay of hardcore gaming by creating an overworld sandbox of galactic exploration that encompasses a vast amount ...

Reviewed by Jecrell on July 22, 2008

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