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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Revelations: Persona

Posted on June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The original PlayStation was the home to many great Japanese Role-Playing games. Some of these games (Wild Arms, Suikoden) were modestly successful on their PS debuts and spawned franchises before dying off in the mid 2000s. Today’s subject in the weekly “Games that will cost you a kidney” series is a game that didn’t have…

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Best Games of 2008 According to GameRankings

Posted on June 20, 2022June 20, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

2008 was a great year for gaming. Big titles from major franchises such as Metal Gear Solid and Grand Theft Auto arrived on “new” console hardware. For the first time in years, a JRPG managed to break into the top ten best games of the year.   The game of the year was GTA IV,…

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Fully Embracing its Sequel Role to the Original Game?  

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

As part of the celebration for Final Fantasy VII’s 25th anniversary, Square Enix finally unveiled details of Final Fantasy VII Remake “Part 2” which will be called “Rebirth”.   The game’s title and trailer seem to “officially” confirm what was obvious to those of us who had played the original game before the “Remake”, which…

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Games that Will Cost You a Kidney: Shining Force III

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The Sega Saturn is, at least to me, the most legendary of the 32/64-bit era machines. The reason? I didn’t own one, and I only know a single person who did. Furthermore, this person lost the console two decades ago.  As a JRPG fan, it was painful that the Sega Saturn was also the home…

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The Best Games of 2007 According to GameRankings

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Greetings Friends! We have, after 17 weeks, reached the 2007 GameRankings.com’s best games of the year list. As we have done recently, the lower scoring version of a game that is featured twice or more on the list is removed to allow for other titles to enter. This time, PS3 versions of BioShock and COD4…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Street Fighter II 

Posted on June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The 1990s were a good time for everything related to martial arts. Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, and Van Damme movies were all the rage. Kids shows like the Power Rangers and movies like The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles drove younglings all over America into Martial Arts schools.   Before the wired special effects shenanigans turned…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Vanguard Bandits

Posted on June 7, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Another week, and another ill-fated Working Design’s PlayStation 1 release. Vanguard Bandits was a decent JRPG/Strategy game based on stereotypical anime mech troupes. Vanguard Bandits had a little more ‘flash’ than most Japanese strategy games of the time. It featured multiple story events with different ramifications given the choice of the protagonist, and consequently, multiple…

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The Best Games of 2006 According to GameRankings

Posted on June 6, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

While the Xbox 360 arrived in 2005, its impressive next generation software did not hit stores until 2006. The year also saw the launch of the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii, meaning a ‘new’ console generation had just begun.   As usual, Sony’s system had an awful launch lineup, and thus, none of its games…

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TGIF: Which was the Largest “Next Gen” Console Leap?

Posted on June 3, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

I guess, if I asked someone the question of “what have been your favorite home console ‘next gen’ moments in any console generation?” The answer would be largely dependent on the age of the person being asked the question. To me, these special moments took place during the 32/64-bit era. The transition from 2-D to…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Thousand Arms

Posted on May 31, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Thousand Arms, like other games on this weekly feature, is not prohibitively expensive. If you are willing to gamble with your money on “resurfaced discs”, you can get the game on Amazon for about $189.00. This (the price point) is a whopping $169.00 more than I paid for my physical copy of the game about…

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