It is now time for a recommendation from me, the almighty Metal_Kitty666. I shall be recommending the Game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Now, Should You buy this game? Short answer, yes, long answer, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES.
You've probably already noticed by now (and if you haven't, then hit ctrl+F5) but the site has a new design. Metal_Kitty666 helped me with the color scheme for the new CSS implimented. All the underlying HTML is the same. The site no longer looks like it was made in 1998!
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I will admit to being a bit jaded and ornery when it comes to the games I like.
There are some games that people expect me to love, and yet I'll have only a few good things to say about them. And yet, other games that even I wasn't expecting to like, I absolutely adore. In cases like that, it's usually some indefinable quality that I can't put into words that makes all the difference. I'll say outright the flaws to be had in the game, and yet confess undying love for it regardless. I notice a lot of the time that what sparks a lot of those feelings is good writing throughout the game. [i](wut a thurprise)[/i] One example to give there would be the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series. More notably, the first one and [i](most)[/i] its expansion packs. There's a strong sense of setting in those games, and so much of it is communicated by the writing. Either by what the units say, what everyone says in the cutscenes, the little descriptions of every map, or even the fluff of th
Actually, pretty easy to refuse this one.
Onechanbara is a japanese game where you play as either a sexy lady in a cowboy hat, her little schoolgirl sister or the moonwalking skimpy police woman. Right off the bat only the Bikini Woman, Named Aya, but you get to play as the other two later in the story.
STORY
Now, down to business, the story... The story kind of just starts outta nowhere, it opens with Aya in the shower in a glorious PG-13 cinematic, which means, no full nudity... *Cry* Well after some dialog between Aya and her sister, which is hard to get into because the game is not dubbed, just subbed, as they are watching the news, suddenly ZOMBIES!!! AHHHHHHH!!! And then they leave to go fight... ZOMBIES!!! AHHHHHHH!!! That's pretty much the beginning of the story, there are just zombies, and that is that.
(This RotW was originally posted on EchoNET, as of this being posted, all previous EchoNET posts are now accounted for)
Where do you even start with Streets of Rage 2, where!? I guess I'll start at the most logical place: The story.
Basically, your friend Adam from the first game has been kidnapped by the crime lord (or whatever you'd call him) Mister X. You playing as Axel, a girl named Blaze, Adam's brother Skate, or Axel's wrestler friend Max, must re-defeat the crime syndicate lead by Mr. X that has returned and kidnapped Adam. It's a pretty basic plot, but c'mon, this is a Genesis/Mega Drive game from 1992. Imagine if Sonic 2 had a huge story! So basically... the story is not important. What is important is: you have an excuse for beating some ass.
So I'm near-constantly slogging away on more Retro of the Week posts. I'd like to get a good-size buffer of them going before I start making good on the 'Retro of the Week" part of this whole thing. When that happens, I'm not sure, but rest assured, I'm working towards it.
I'm also working on ever more Modern of the Month articles. As you'll be able to see in due time, there's considerably more thought and words put into a MotM than a standard RotW, to make up for many fewer of them there will be. Thankfully, I can be a lot more selective about what I choose for MotM than RotW, which means I can choose games I have a bit more passion about. (this will get very obvious as time goes on)
I'm also thinking of releasing a new MotM at the start of every month. Hopefully, this will help me make the connection that pay rent = update MotM, and vice versa, and help bring some sort of remembrance cycle going in my forgetful life. Plu
I typically like to write about older games. Games that were made in the heyday of the medium, before it became a cashcow that had decisions being made by bearucratic publishers rather than by trained game developers. (not to cast too negative a light on the state of modern gaming) I feel that there's usually more.... Soul. More love, more passion, more tiny details put into the games of old. Little things that don't really contribute to the gameplay at all, but are there just because someone cared about the game enough to throw in a little something extra.
The game we're featuring today, however, is from this century. More notably, this decade! (at time of writing) Even MORE heinous than that, it was released late 2011! (November 1 2011, if I must be precise.)
But you know how it is with these retro-themed games. Some of them manage to capture that ol' classic gaming spirit so well that they could easily go alongside anything made for the SNES, Genesis, DOS or NES or whatever fancy dangle you kids play these days.
So here I am talking about something that's probably even newer than your last haircut. Today's focus is; To The Moon.
