Year: 2011
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A number of weeks ago, I played through Dragon Warrior by way of the Dragon Warrior I & II compilation for GameBoy Color. Having so thoroughly enjoyed the first game in one of my all-time favorite video game franchises, I quickly flipped the cartridge back on and jumped into Dragon Warrior II, but in doing so I felt a…
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Last Thursday marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Dragon Quest for the Famicom in Japan. This auspicious occasion would have passed by without my knowledge if not for another website giving the event some fairly substantial coverage. This coverage inspired me to take a long-hard look at my appreciation for the Dragon Quest series. In spite of the…
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I haven’t played very many point-and-click adventure games. In fact, I could probably count the number of adventure games that I’ve spent any considerable amount of time with on one hand. And yet, as unfamiliar as I am with the genre, I couldn’t help but be captivated by Hotel Dusk: Room 215 as I experienced the game…
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Eternal Sonata is one of the few traditional Japanese role-playing games that are available for the PS3. An expanded port of the Xbox 360 game released a year earlier, it presents an interesting premise upon a series of colorful and mostly charming settings with a battle system that manages to not go stale before you save…
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