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Review: King’s Bounty: The Legend

It would be very easy to say that King’s Bounty: The Legend is just a Heroes of Might and Magic clone, only it’s not. And that’s not just because the first Heroes of Might and Magic was inspired by the original King’s Bounty, but mainly because, while being far from original in any way, it […]

Final Fantasy XIII – Trailer of the Year Already?

You could say that this happened to me once before, but I think I’m already past that level and it’s only day three. I’m talking about me getting rather hooked on a trailer for a game and watching it a rather insane number of times for at least a few days in a row. Should […]

Game Worlds Are Not Real Worlds!

Yet again, certain people in positions of authority fail to understand that game worlds are not actually real. They also fail to understand that gamers are generally not like them in that aspect. Or they could just be pretending in order to appear like they actually have something to do and therefore justify their paycheck, […]

Solitary Character Classes in MMORPGs

Since MMORPGs have recently been brought back to my attention and I usually tend to have some sort of plan for a game running through my mind, I went back to trying to find a solution for one of my pet peeves, namely that you can’t play such a game (mostly) by yourself. Sure, many […]

JRPGs

Final Fantasy VIII, which I just gave up on after reaching Ultimecia’s Castle because it would have been absolutely impossible to make it through with my characters, reminded me of just how weird I find JRPGs in general. There usually is a good story which attempts to relay an even better message, the characters have […]