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Valkyria Chronices 2: Demo Review

By Roy | Published: November 10, 2009
Yesterday I spent a bit of time playing through the recently released demo of Valkyria Chronicles 2.  It beings with a few scenes from the most recent TGS trailers: tanks blasting through innocent walls, lockers filled with munitions, normal school stuff.  The player can then experiment with the training mode as well as an actual [...]
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Demon’s Souls Review

By Roy | Published: September 30, 2009
Demon’s Souls is a game which is preceded by its reputation.  In the West, Asian copies began flooding in early this year featuring a rudimentary English localization.  The game received nothing but praise and respect for its high level of difficulty. Fans of RPGs and PS3 owners alike waited with uncertainty as to whether a [...]
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Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days Review

By Roy | Published: September 11, 2009
Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days marks the fourth entry of the series onto a portable system.  The game features a brief prequel starring the unlikely “Dark Hero,” Axel.  A number of improvements were made to the battle system that were taken directly from Disgaea 3, the most recent title in the series. As a connoisseur of [...]
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Shin Megami Tensei: Persona Review

By Roy | Published: September 1, 2009
There was a dark time in the early history of video game localization when xenophobic publishers mutilated Japanese games beyond recognition.  Perhaps the pinnacle of such botched titles was Atlus’s Revelations: Persona for the Playstation, released in 1996.  The game reeked of a distrust in the consumer to accept anything foreign and everything was changed: [...]
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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite Review

By Roy | Published: August 12, 2009
The time I spent in Japan opened my eyes to a powerful gaming phenomena known simply as monhun:  a wholly consuming obsession with Monster Hunter and all its facets. While I had never played the game, I could not help but have respect for it and be in awe of the following it had [...]
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