Move’s Sorcery looks to trump Wii’s Skyward Sword
Posted by Chas Guidry in E3 2010, PS3, Previews on 22. Jun, 2010 | 0 Comments
Sorcery, a high fantasy action title in development by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation Move, looks like the kind of game expected to flood the Wii’s library before players realized how limited the system’s motion control was when it first launched. But unlike Wii, it appears Move will launch as the most accurate motion control [...]
Opinion: Nintendo bridges the gap between the expanded and traditional audience at E3
Posted by Chas Guidry in E3 2010, Opinion on 16. Jun, 2010 | 2 Comments
For the last four years, E3 has been a bittersweet event for Nintendo fans. The company’s acquisition of the expanded audience, those who didn’t consider video games a hobby, required Nintendo to market products that didn’t appeal to the fans it cultivated over the years. Polished tech demos and mini-game collections like Wii Sports Resort [...]
Opinion: Galaxy 2 is the first proper 3D Mario game
Posted by Chas Guidry in Console, Opinion, Wii on 05. Jun, 2010 | 3 Comments
When Mario first ventured into the third dimension in 1996’s Super Mario 64, he disappeared for nearly a decade leaving a doppelganger in his place. The impostor may have looked like the Mario we knew and loved, but he didn’t play like him. Rather than racing from level to level in a globe-spanning adventure to [...]
Review: Crossover is the best Super Mario Bros ever made
Posted by Chas Guidry in PC, Reviews on 10. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
Chas explains why a free flash version of NES classic Super Mario Bros. with multiple playable characters will make you wonder why you ever liked Mario in the first place.
Opinion: FFXIII is a text-based strategy game about masturbation
Posted by Chas Guidry in Opinion on 09. May, 2010 | 14 Comments
Final Fantasy XIII caught me off guard. I thought I had read more than enough previews, reviews, and first-hand impressions of the game to understand what I was getting myself into, but none of it prepared me for what I actually experienced. I went in expecting to find the naysaysers were nothing more than narrow-minded [...]
Opinion: Your Videogame Sucks
Posted by Chas Guidry in Opinion on 25. Apr, 2010 | 4 Comments
So, Roger Ebert said, once again, “video games can never be art.” Now, we’re all supposed to cite specific examples of video games to prove the critic wrong. It’s a vicious cycle that benefits no one but Ebert, whose recent rebuttal elicited over 2,500 comments in under five days. Of course, Ebert was planning on [...]
100-Word Review: No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle (Wii)
Posted by Chas Guidry in 100-Word Reviews, Reviews on 28. Feb, 2010 | 2 Comments
Desperate Struggle addresses its predecessor’s flaws and suffers for it. Players still button-mash through colorful brawls, but roadblocks that stood in the way have been eliminated despite the excellent pacing they provided. The empty city of Santa Destroy is now a slow-loading map, and jobs are no longer interesting commentaries on motion control but cheap [...]
