We finish our excursion and proceed to the theater, where Shin and Diana see Hamlet, and I talk some about the play and it’s most famous speech.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 29 – A Night at the Opera
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 99
We finish off the Best of the Rest before we start Nintendo Power Year 8.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 28 – A Night on the Town
We take Diana on a night on the town.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 27 – No, A Lot Extra
After that last little catastrophe, we decide to restore Diana’s will to live.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 26 – A Little Extra
We get to know Diana and discover that she is very intense.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 25 – To the Rooftops
Dokurobo tries to make a break for it, only for the New York Combat Revue to catch up with him.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 24 – Guns of Wall Street
Once again we take the fight to Dokurobo and his anti-air guns.
Read moreGBP – Curse of the Azure Bonds #4: Liberation of Hap
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: Video Game Review
The first two Marvel Ultimate Alliance games, and their predecessors in the X-Men Legends series, felt like love letters to Marvel Comics. They had a wide variety of characters who you could team up in different ways – with special modifiers based on characters shared history, and a variety of costumes and side missions that played off with that history. With Team Ninja developing MUA3, I had a hope that they would keep with that experience, and combine it with Team Ninja’s background with presenting stylish action. Instead, they just did the bare minimum.
Read moreGBP – Curse of the Azure Bonds #3: Road to Hap
On leaving Tilverton, Curse of the Azure Bonds finally opens up – sort of. We now have a larger world to travel through, but we’re still somewhat limited by what quest flags are available to trigger.
Read moreGBP – Curse of the Azure Bonds #2: Sewers and Fire Knives Lair
When we last left Curse of the Azure Bonds we were set on something of an introductory railroad, as we were given a little time to get some gear in town, before being thrust into a series of combats, followed by a flight to the Thieves Guild after our party discovered that a variety of dark conspiracies had tattooed us with some marks that let them control us.
Read morePool of Radiance: Video Game Review
This week I’m giving my thoughts on the first of the Gold Box games, Pool of Radiance, after the conclusion of the first part of my Let’s Play, which I didn’t capture gameplay footage of this time, so this review is going to be strictly a talking-head review.
Read moreGBP – Curse of the Azure Bonds #1: Tilverton City & Thieves Guild
So, because I played a lot of Pool of Radiance back in the day, I will admit that I kind of rushed through that game to a degree. Mainly, that was because this was a project where what I really wanted to do was get into uncharted territory, and at long last, I’ve done so, with Curse of the Azure Bonds.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 23 – Reunited
Shinjiro finds Rosita and brings her back to the theater… just in time to have to sortie!
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 22 – Combat Revue No More!
Shinjiro goes looking for Rosita.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 21 – Corporate Raider
Dokurobo and his goons attack the New York Federal Reserve.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 98
We have another 11 games on the Best of the Rest, all from the SNES.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 20 – Duty Calls
The retreat ends just in time for a call to sortie.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 19 – Team Building Exercise
The New York Combat Revue holds a team-building retreat!
Read moreGBP: Pool of Radiance Part 12 – Valjevo Castle
We now, at last, come to the largest and final area of the game – Valjevo Castle, the home of Tyranthraxus.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 18 – Home Is Where You Make It
We visit where Rosita is staying, and are introduced to the boss of this chapter.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 17 – La Gran Gria
We take Rosita on a tour of New York City after the mess of her first performance.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 16 – Really?!
We got a new team member, and, well, if you thought the writing for Harlem was awkward and cringeworthy…
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 15 – Mind The Gap
The enemy heads down into the Subway network, and we chase after.
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