Tag Archives: reviews

Review – The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (GBA) – A Very Good Zelda Game

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Brian

Yes, it’s an actual real update!  I’m glad to have written a review again. Title: The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (US/EU), Zelda no Densetsu: Fushigi no Boushi (Japan) Developer: Flagship Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Game Boy Advance Released: November … Continue reading →

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Review: Splatoon (Wii U) – A Surprisingly Great Shooter from Nintendo

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Brian

… Sorry the site was down for a couple of days. Fixed. And here’s a new review too, finally, of a game I have been playing a lot of for the past month or two. Introduction Splatoon is an online … Continue reading →

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Review: Dragon Egg! (TG16) – A Good but Rushed Platformer

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Brian

I’ll get back to my PC Platformers list soon, but I had to do this review first… Platform: PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) Year: Released 9/27/1991 Developer/Publisher: NCS Masaya Title: Dragon Egg! Introduction & Story Dragon Egg! is a cartoony platformer NCS … Continue reading →

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Class of Heroes 1 (PSP) Review: Addictive, Grindey Dungeon-Crawling Fun, and Frustration

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Brian

Okay… so, several years and like 150+ hours into playing this super addictive but at times nightmarishly unfun grinding simulator (or at least that’s what it is right now!), I really should write something about it, shouldn’t I? I mean, … Continue reading →

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Game Opinion Summaries: Gamecube

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Brian

This is a new list. It’s my longest game opinion summaries/short reviews article yet, and yeah, it’s pretty long. I guess I’ve gotten more verbose than I was five years ago when I started on the PS1 and 32X lists… … Continue reading →

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Recoil (PC) Review: Zipper’s Great Tank Action Game

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Brian

Recoil is a simple and arcadey third-person tank shooter, a popular subgenre in the late ’90s.  I have quite a few tank shooters from this era, including Battletanx and Battletanx: Global Assault on the N64; Grudge Warriors, Battletanx: Global Assault … Continue reading →

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Netstorm (PC) Review – Battle in the Skies of Nimbus in one of the best games ever!

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Brian

In addition to the recently posted Mega Man in Dr. Wily’s Revenge, the other review I posted on the internet in 2001 was this one, for the classic 1997 PC real-time strategy game Netstorm.  I first played Netstorm from PC … Continue reading →

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Avenger (Turbo CD) Review – Under Defeat’s under-rated, and great, TCD spiritual predecessor

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Brian

Title: Avenger Platform: Turbo CD (PC Engine CD) Developer: Telenet Japan Publisher: Laser Soft Release: December 7, 1990 (Japan only) Intro The Turbo CD is a great, and important, console. Designed by Hudson and sold by NEC, it was the … Continue reading →

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Game Opinion Summaries: Sega CD (Mega CD) – The Genesis’s Good Addon

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Brian

Platform Summary and History — Ah, the Sega CD, Sega’s first disc-based platform. The Sega CD was released in late 1991 in Japan, fall 1992 in the US, and 1993 in Europe. The system attaches to the Sega Genesis, and, … Continue reading →

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Guild Wars 2 (PC) Beta Weekend Event 2 Impressions

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Brian

Guild Wars 2 Developed by ArenaNet and published by NCSoft For PC.  Game is not yet released and is still in beta.  First open beta test was in May 2012. Note – this is the second BWE, and the third … Continue reading →

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