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  • Aenigma Os Review - Nintendo WiiU

    Aenigma Os Review - Nintendo WiiU

    I consider puzzle games an incredibly hard genre to make: the basic premise must be easy to pick up but have enough depth to keep players coming back for more; luck must be kept at bay as much as possible, and the mechanics must allow for some flexibility to create different game modes.
    Enter Aenigma OS for the WiiU, a puzzle game by Akies Games. All you have to do is to match three or more symbols of the same shape in vertical or horizontal lines by tapping the first and last symbols you w...
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  • Genei Ibun Roku #FE Review - Nintendo WiiU

    Genei Ibun Roku #FE Review - Nintendo WiiU

    What would you expect from a mix of Shin Megami Tensei, where demons battle for you, and Fire Emblem, where armies fight godly dragons? Idols. Riding pegasi. That fight demons for “Performa”, an essence abounding in talented humans.

    Most probably not your first idea, but that's what Atlus and Nintendo thought when they crossed their two series in Genei Ibun Roku #FE, an RPG for the WiiU that will be known as Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE outside Japan.
    The game's setting was m...
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  • Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd Review - Sony PSP

    Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd Review - Sony PSP

    The story of Hatsune Miku is a strange one. Originally designed as a character to accompany a piece of text-to-vocals “Vocaloid” software in Japan, nobody took much notice. Then, a video of a super-deformed Miku twirling a spring onion and singing a song created using the software appeared on a Japanese video-sharing website. Millions of views later she just sort of... caught on. Indeed, caught on so much that the super-deformed “Hachune Miku” became a character herself, even making an appearance...
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  • Ai Igo Review - Sony PSP

    Ai Igo Review - Sony PSP

    The thought comes unbidden that for a long time, Go really has been the final frontier for video games - creating a servicable AI for playing the thing, that is. In spite of the fact that there is practically only one rule (surround as much territory on the board as possible) and one possible move (place one stone of your colour anywhere legal on the board), Go is the most mathematically complex game ever created by humanity. There are over twenty five thousand ways just to play the opening gambit,...
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  • Made In Wario (WareWare Inc) Review - Nintendo GBA

    Made In Wario (WareWare Inc) Review - Nintendo GBA

    Trying to distil the concept of Made in Wario into a few sentences, and to write them down on paper, proves a challenging endeavour. The game is conceptually unique, and doesn’t fit comfortably into any pre-defined genre of videogaming. Let us try though, to capture this essence in a few words. “Defeat characters by completing random minigames, from a selection of more than 200. Each minigames lasts five seconds or less”. Normally, games that are composed of smaller games from different genres,...
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  • Xyanide Review - Microsoft Xbox

    Xyanide Review - Microsoft Xbox

    Xyanide took an age to find a publisher willing to invest in the Xbox version, but eventually was released at a wallet-friendly price, and it's worth a look. The game uses the twin-stick control method of Geometry Wars / Robotron for the main levels in which enemy ships can attack from all sides in the 2D plane. So fly one way with the left stick and fire another way with the right stick. Interestingly, as well as attacking from the edges of the screen, attack patterns also emerge from the background...
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  • Evolution Snowboarding Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    Evolution Snowboarding Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    It is difficult to come up with new genres for games. Even when someone achieves the mental leap to a completely new idea, often the concept is just too new for the majority of the audience and receives a muted reception. So to avoid the unknown, it is much easier to mix tried and tested genres together to form a new type of game. After all, beating up endless hoards of thugs with a baseball bat worked in Double Dragon, so why shouldn't it work in 3D whilst on a snowboard?
    Konami's Evolu...
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  • Target: Terror Review - Nintendo Wii

    Target: Terror Review - Nintendo Wii

    Target: Terror is the "ultimate arcade light-gun shooter." At least that’s what it says on the back. It would definitely be the ultimate experience if you were into games with shoddy controls, graphics from two generations previous (you think we are joking?) and hammed-up acting. Scarily, there’s a large group of gamers that enjoy this sort of thing.
    Ported from the arcade original, the Wii version pits the player against an endless army of terrorists, all of whom have to be gunned down ...
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  • Koro Koro Puzzle: Happy Panecchu Review - Nintendo GBA

    Koro Koro Puzzle: Happy Panecchu Review - Nintendo GBA

    Koro koro puzzle: Happy panecchu! belongs to a selection of "experimental" titles that Nintendo released during the course of the GBA's lifespan which used special chips and sensors to add unusual or unique gameplay features to the games. The kind of technology and implementation in each game differed quite significantly, from Screw Breaker/Drill Dozer's simple rumble pak to Konami's Boktai's solar sensor, to varied results. But it's the more sizeable examples of this group, the motion-controlled...
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  • Super Robot Taisen: W Review - Nintendo DS

    Super Robot Taisen: W Review - Nintendo DS

    Parts of this review could easily apply to many other Super Robot Taisen games. The many games released so far usually follow a similar formula – the story of each game contains parts of the plots of certain robot Anime which are intertwined together with a strand of original story. The motivation to buy a game in the series may come from a love of a particular Anime which is featured therein, or from simply liking the style of gameplay. Although called Super Robot Taisen in Japanese, the series...
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    Castlevania: White Night Concerto is the latest instalment in Konamis Castlevania series. It is the second title for the GBA, but the first Castlevania game appeared on the NES back in 1987. It is ostensibly a platform game, like its predecessors. Certain things have remained constant throughout the series- in all but a couple of Castlevania outings, the main protagonist (in this case Juste Belmont) brandishes a whip. Secondary weapons are also available. Again these weapons are the same as tho...
    03-04-2022, 15:57
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    For the uninitiated, Super Robot Wars Original Generation Saga: Mugen no Frontier (Endless Frontier) is an action-RPG spin-off from the popular Super Robot Wars series. The player has to use attacks to keep enemies in the air in order to do maximum damage, and string together as many attacks as they can. Timing and knowledge of characters' moves is the key to success. SRW OG Saga: Mugen no Frontier EXCEED is the sequel, and goes to show that a follow-up can be better than the original.
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