Baroque Developer: Sting Entertainmnet Publisher: Atlus USA Genre: Roguelike RPG Platform: Playstation 2, Wii NA Release Date: April 8, 2008 (about one year, five months after the PS3 launch) Welcome to Games You May Have Missed. This will be a recurring feature highlighting games that are considered to be obscure, forgotten, or released at the wrong time. The most common entries will likely be about … Continue reading Games You May Have Missed – Baroque
For this round of “You Did This to Us,” our audience made a pick that could be considered less cruel than usual, and chose “Gremlins 2.” Gizmo, a small furry monkey elf known as a “Mogwai,” is kidnapped and brought to the Clamp (Trump) building where his human friend Billy coincidentally works. Unfortunately, he accidentally gets wet, evil Mogwai are spawned and metamorphose into nasty … Continue reading 20: Gremlins 2
Everyone has gaming sins. Whether it’s leaving discs out to gather dust and scratches, screen-cheating, or ignoring that super popular game everyone loves, we all have those little sins that surprise others. “Sin” may be a strong word. Admittedly, there are times others will do: bad habits, eccentricities, quirks, tastes, and traditions, among others. Sometimes though, “sin” is a good choice, and in those cases, … Continue reading Digital Gaming Amnesia
For our next Future Classics pick, Brett has brought us “Fences,” Denzel Washington’s adaptation of the August Wilson play about fathers and sons, husbands and wives, people of color and the white institutions they have to deal with. Join us as we discuss things like, Does this make a good (and one day classic) movie in its own right? Is Denzel’s character, Troy, a bad … Continue reading 19: Fences
An Underrated RPG Returns for a Second Attempt Often seen as just a niche publisher, Atlus is secretly one of the most prolific voices in gaming. For over thirty years, their development teams in Japan, as well as their localization and publishing branch in the States, have a track record that is almost unmatched. With games released on almost every major system since the late … Continue reading Review – Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology (3DS)
“No safety nets. No computer graphics. No strings attached.” Our next “Around the World” pick is “Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior,” featuring Tony Jaa kicking butt all over Bangkok as he tries to retrieve the head of his village’s scarred Buddha. You have never seen so much jumping, flipping, kicking, elbow strikes to the head, and knees to the FREAKIN’ FACE together in one movie … Continue reading 18: Ong Bak – The Thai Warrior
Far Cry 5 is an interesting experiment in trying to appear topical, but falling short in every aspect. I’m not here to reiterate the much discussed toothless politics of the game; that’s been done plenty. What I would like to highlight however, is that while I enjoyed it at first, I’ve stopped having fun about ten hours in. Initially, the quest to stop the Project at Eden’s Gate cult … Continue reading Far Cry 5’s Character Creator is Useless and I’m Not Having Fun Anymore
In our next “Netflix Roulette” pick, we cover 1990’s “GoodFellas.” Wow, being a mobster is great! You make lots of money, you can do whatever you want, and the cops look the other way. The only problem is that when disputes pop up between wiseguys, the arbitration tends to be fatal. Join Brett, David, and Nicole as we discuss this Martin Scorcese classic, the true … Continue reading 17: GoodFellas
What’s the Story, Pikachu? When writing a review, it is critical to pay attention to how a game comes together. There may be a lot of great things under the hood – wonderful graphics, fantastic world-building, well-written characters – that make it tempting to score high. What really matters though, is recognizing what a game is trying to do and deciding whether or not it … Continue reading Game Review – Detective Pikachu (3DS)
We begin round 4 of our go-rounds with a New to Two pick from Nicole, “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek.” This 1944 Preston Sturges classic was incredibly suggestive for its time, using a lot of coded language to refer to sex and pregnancy, both forbidden to speak of by the pre-MPAA Hays Code. Daffy but pleasant Trudy Kockenlocker goes to a farewell party for American … Continue reading 16: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Tilting Windmill Studios 