Vita
Playstation Vita
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Jet Car Stunts
Jet Car Stunts feels like the evolution of GripShift with uglier graphics. If I were lazy, that would be the end of the review. If you’re still interested in the game, keep reading. This game is incredibly ugly. Let’s get that out of the way first. Its flat, overly polygonal graphics will not win any awards, but they are functional. While graphics aren’t the strong suit of Jet Car Stunts, the pseudo-physics are. Controling your cars is quite easy and responsive once you get the hang of the two different brakes; one for the ground, and one for arial breaking. Your nitros/turbos work both on the ground and in the…
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Freedom Wars
First off, let me just say this: I consider myself a relatively competent player when it comes to the “Hunter” genre of games. I’ve got a couple thousand hours logged, between Monster Hunter titles, Ragnarok Odyssey (ACE), both Soul Sacrifices, Toukiden, God Eater, etc. I’m no fresh recruit. Very little impresses me anymore. This game, FREEDOM WARS, has managed to strike a chord with me that hasn’t been struck since the release of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. Story-wise, this is your typical anime cliches mess. Main character gets amnesia, has to start over from the bottom rung, yadda yadda yadda. Nobody really plays these games for the story. It’s all about the…
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Monster Monpiece
I was apprehensive to pick up this title at first. It looked like a good card/strategy game, but it is clearly over-sexualized with the girl-rubbing mechanic. Unfortunately, it is needed in order to level up your monster girls. I’m going to get the rubbing mechanics out of the way as it is really the only glaring flaw to the game. When you rub or tap a monster girl (something you have to pay to do) in the right places, they react with noises and blushing animations. If you manage to please them enough in the given time, the card levels up…and the girls take some of their clothes off. The…
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NAtURAL DOCtRINE
Let me start by saying this game is brutal. Seriously. I’ve never wanted to snap my Vita in half as badly as I have playing this game. To put it into perspective, NAtURAL DOCtRINE is the Dark Souls of Strategy RPGs. But that’s not a bad thing. How so? I’ll explain. First off, this game requires actual strategy. If you go rushing into a skirmish, you will be promptly (and frequently) greeted with the “Game Over” screen. You have to plot your units’ movements carefully, or else they’ll be destroyed by hordes of angry goblins, orcs, lizardmen, etc. NAtURAL DOCtRINE utilizes an interesting “Link System”–a system you will need to learn to use and abuse if…
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Ys: Memories Of Celceta
I originally said I was going to play through both Valhalla Knights 3 and Ys:MoC, reporting on which was the better game, but Ys blew me away so much that I have literally not played a bit of VK3 since delving into this game. It’s fantastic! If you’re on the fence about picking it up, skip this review and just go buy it. I think you’ll have no regrets in your purchase…unless if goes on sale for %50 off the next day. It’s hard to say exactly what it is that I enjoy the most about it. I would like to think that it’s just so well crafted with each…
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Akiba’s Trip Undead & Undressed
Akiba’s Trip is a story about a guy named Mile McMittenhands who nobly runs around Akihabara beating people up until their clothes are good and stinky whereupon he proceeds to strip them to their skivvies so they will suffer the full wrath of daylight, bursting into purple flames. The only untrue statement in the previous paragraph is the name of the protagonist whose real name is Nanashi. I call him McMittenhands because that’s exactly how all of the characters’s hands are handled. Frankly, I like the approach because it look to be more of an art design choice where having the fingers drawn on would appear lazy. As it stands,…
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Ragnarok Odyssey Ace
I’ll be honest, I had no idea what I was getting into when I picked up the original Ragnarok Odyssey. I knew next to nothing about the series that spawned the game, therefore I had no preconceived notions. The demo sold me, just on the over-the-top aerial combat. I never finished it, because I have a short attention span, and a bad habit of buying games, and never finishing them. Fast forward to a little over a month ago. I was in my local GameStop, browsing through the Vita selection they had. I saw the Launch Edition of the ‘sequel’ to RO, and I picked it up, and gave it…
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Soul Sacrifice Delta
I tried hard to like the original Soul Sacrifice. I tried to get my girlfriend and my friends to get into it, but ultimately, there was just something missing. As it turns out, there was a lot missing. Delta has included all of the things I wanted from the original and a few I didn’t even know I wanted. I’m going to assume that you, the reader, hasn’t played the original game for a moment. Soul Sacrifice Delta is in the action sub-genre many refer to as Hunter or Raid. What that means is most of the game consists of you fighting a large boss fight alone, with an AI…
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Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God
Let me preface this review with the fact that I don’t usually care very much for rogue-like games. I had hoped that Sorcery Saga was different. Is it? Well, yes. Did it convert me into a rogue-like devotee? Not really. Starting this game is extremely long-winded. Tutorial screens are abundant in the first couple hours of this game. As Pupuru, a carefree sorceress who comes upon a magic cookbook and a strange cat…bunny…thing named Kuu. It’s a good thing she found that book because a major curry house has just moved into town and is threatening her favorite curry shop. Maybe with the special ingredients from the book, she can…
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
How does one review a game like this? To tell you the truth, I’m really not sure. I’m limited in what I can say because so much of the game relies on the player not knowing exactly what’s going on. It’s not exactly the type of game most people will play through multiple times unless you’re the type that watches anime seasons multiple times. You see, at it’s heart, Danganronpa is a Visual Novel with real-time exploration and investigation and courtroom battles similar to those found in the Ace Attorney games. At the request of the publisher, I will not discuss anything beyond the first chapter, but I will try to…
