So, should I be annoyed or proud that my son has beaten Super Mario Galaxy 2 before me? I watch him fly through the end levels with the ease of a practiced expert. Gliding over obstacles, jumping and careening through danger with no more care or consideration than a buzzing bee floating lazily through a field […]
Tomorrow is Xenoblade Chronicles day!
Which for most people will result in something resembling the following: Pick up Xenoblade Chronicles Go home and play Xenoblade Chronicles But, unfortunately, for ME at least, the process will actually look something more like this: Pick up Xenoblade Chronicles Work the rest of the day (periodically flipping through the art book, of course) Go […]
Xenoblade Chronicles
I was already seriously excited for this game, and then I read this Siliconera review, and my excitement was compounded by at least double, if not more. I haven’t looked forward to a game this much since…I can’t recall when.Friday cannot come soon enough. I cannot WAIT to play Xenoblade Chronicles
It’s dangerous to go alone!
I mentioned a couple of posts back that I started a new gaming blog. Well, sometime soon after I started the blog, I decided to give it a more permanent home. It’s not that I don’t like Posterous, it’s just that I felt it needed something more. So now, the blog is housed at WordPress […]
The Wii and DS games of 2009
So, 2008 wasn’t really the year of the Wii RPG that I had hoped it would be. 2008, as a matter of fact, wasn’t really the year for a whole lot on the Wii of any real substance. I’m not trying to discount everything that showed up on the Little Console that Could™. There were […]
Igarashi and Capcom show a horrendous lack of (Castlevania) Judgment
Let’s just get this out of the way right now: Castlevania Judgment is going to be a tremendous failure. I can say that, under the premise of it being nothing more than my opinion, but it is fact. Or will be, once the game is on shelves. Maybe the game itself will be a miraculous […]
Wii to become the de-facto home for new Tales games?
It was tough going to get this Famitsu article translated, but some enterprising Tales forum members were up to the task. One nearly inconsequential bullet point actually becomes a major supporting concept for my theory that the Wii will replace the PS2 as a home for jRPG goodness. Namco Bandai has apparently announced that after […]
Just got myself a Nyko wireless nunchuk
The Amazon Gold Box deal at 8PM (central time) tonight was a Nyko wireless nunchuk for the Wii. I’ve been interested in this peripheral since it was first announced, but the steep $35 introductory price frightened me away. The Gold Box deal knocked $10 off the price, and Amazon had apprently taken off an extra […]
Could the Wii be a haven for Japanese RPGs?
The cost of developing titles for the PS3 is extraordinary, and no developer in Japan worth their salt will bother to even acknowledge the 360. Where does that leave the jRPG developer? With the appearance of games like Arc Rise Fantasia and confirmation that Swords of Legendia is an actual game; combined with all the […]
The next Nintendo console will just have to wait
So, I have a co-worker, and he and I are both die-hard Nintendo fanboys. We have always owned Nintendo consoles, we have always worshiped Nintendo properties, we have always waited with child-like glee and anticipation for every new nugget of Nintendo goodness. Now, this co-worker friend of mine recently purchased an Xbox 360. No problem, […]