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I just took a new set of photos of my game room and filmed a video in which I showed off the stuff that I have on display and how my setup works. I figured this is a good place to share it? The photo album: https://imgur.com/a/pSWPNJO The video: https://youtu.be/YzJcCMXp0e8?si=JDAdbbX6vq19ykeC By the way, this blog is not dead despite the fact that I haven't posted in quite a long time now. I've…
In the DS’s first year, it really needed games that really took advantage of the touch screen in creative ways in order to convince customers that the extra screen wasn’t just a silly gimmick. Kirby: Canvas Curse (or Power Paintbrush for the non-Americans in the audience) was one of those games. Kirby had already established a solid formula up to this point, 2D platformers with recurring gameplay…
If you’re not an anime fan, the name “Shonen Jump” may not mean anything to you…but there’s no denying that you’ve seen and felt its cultural influence. Basically, Shonen Jump is an extremely popular manga/comic book publication in Japan that began in the late 1960s and still exists to this day. Some of the most famous anime of all-time (including Dragon Ball, One Piece and Naruto) got their start…
I actually wrote a full-length review for this game on gamefaqs.com when I played through it back in 2020. Because of that review, this post might be a bit shorter than normal since I pretty much said what I have to say about the game in that review. You can read it here . Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love certainly looks like a follow-up to Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland, with similar logos and the same…
I already talked not long ago about the greatness of the Ace Attorney series. After creating the original Ace Attorney trilogy, the creator of the series wanted to work on a different kind of project. This new game would still be very story-driven and all about mystery like Ace Attorney, but the gameplay would be entirely different, feeling much more like a video game than something akin to an…
Here we have one of the oddest Legend of Zelda spinoffs out there. Tingle debuted as a character in the Nintendo 64 hit The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, as a quirky map salesman who floats with a balloon that Link must pop in order to bring him down to earth to do business. Rather than keep him as a one-off Majora’s Mask character, he started appearing in more Zelda games in different forms,…
After the success of Fire Emblem on the Game Boy Advance, it was to be expected that we’d get more Fire Emblem on the popular new DS. But instead of sequels, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems decided to go the route of remakes. They started by remaking the very first game in the series, the one that basically introduced the strategy RPG genre as we know it. One motivation for doing so was that the…
This is a remake of Final Fantasy III on the Famicom (Japanese NES), which I’ve already written about. You can read my past post here . In the late ‘90s, when Final Fantasy was more popular than it had ever been, Square got into the habit of porting or remaking the earlier games in the series to various platforms. It started with the three SNES titles getting ported to PlayStation. Then, a…
The 2000s was the time when we got the most “Metroidvania” entries in the Castlevania series by far. The three of them on the Game Boy Advance over the span of just a few years saw enough commercial and critical success to keep the trend going into the Nintendo DS era. For their first DS Castlevania, Konami decided to give us a direct sequel to the last one on GBA, Aria of Sorrow. A more…
The first Advance Wars on DS had changed things up more than Advance Wars 2 had. But there were some that perhaps felt it was a bit too similar to the previous entries. And it seems that Intelligent Systems may have had those players in mind when they came up with the next entry, Days of Ruin, which does keep most of the same basic gameplay elements intact but otherwise is quite a departure in…
