Asian Girl Gamer

Muramasa: The Demon Blade was actually the first game we booted up on the Wii back in our tiny office. We are huge fans of Vanillaware, the Developer of the sleeper hit Odin Sphere, which Muramasa is the spiritual successor of. Odin Sphere probably belongs to one of our top 10 favorite games on the PS2. Being a 2D game consisting entirely of hand-drawn sprites and backdrops, Muramasa is the one game that doesn’t suffer from performance issues on the … More…

We recently got our hand on a wii — we don’t really keep one in the office, no offense to Nintendo or anything, but it just isn’t a console for the hardcore, not by a long shot. Yes we are aware that the Wii sells like hot cakes, but just like cupcakes, we don’t get the appeal of it, simply to say — we recognize the fact that people who are different than us greatly outnumber us, thus explaining the … More…

We came across Genetos after reading a post from Gamers With Jobs, and after we spent a 20 minute session playing through the game, we were awed. To describe the experience in a sentence it would be that it is a game that teaches the player a lesson of progress, of evolution, of the genre; and that genre obviously being vertical scrolling shooters. We recommend that every fan of the genre, or simply anyone who has encountered any shooters in … More…

Darksiders wasn’t a game that we had looked forward to playing, somehow it missed our radar and then landed in our lap after all the good things and bad things we have heard about it, two contradicting views that got us intrigued. Our verdict is that it isn’t a bad game, and depending on what kind of gamer you are, it might even be worth your time or money. I’ll get right to the point and say it, Darksiders lacks … More…

I wasn’t planning to like Bayonetta, with all the attention it was constantly getting all last year from the gaming journalist world, I was getting very sick of the very mention of her name — or maybe I was justjealous. I was determined to hate Bayonetta, since I was not fond of the overly pretentious and lack-of-substance Devil May Cry series, I ended up tolerating it while I went through the game, and I even liked it a little at … More…

The Zelda tune was something that I always carried with me from childhood, like most of the Castlevania and Mario BGM music, I hummed the tune from Zelda in high school whenever I was feeling down, it had the ability to ensorcell me with magical delight, as if it teleported me instantly to the fantasy Hyrule. It was as memorable as the Xmas Carol, more so. There was a long gap, almost a decade  after I played the 2nd Zelda … More…

Saboteur, the last game made by Pandemic Studio, now officially closed down as the next victim of EA’s long history of destruction of talented game development studios, just does not deserve all the hate from reviewers of prominent sites. To put it frankly, we have never liked any one game Pandemic has created so far during the years so we were oblivious when we heard of its demise. Now putting our hands on Pandemic’s swan song achievement of the combination of art and … More…

Assassin’s Creed 2 was a pleasant surprise, that it trumps its prequel in every way that was possible, was not something we had anticipated. The fist Assassin’s Creed was not a terrible game, we even admitted that we liked the game for the fleeing moments that it lasted — while its  grave mistake of repetitive mission structure (only 3 different mission types) was inexcusable, its uniqueness lay in building upon the basic Prince of Persia gameplay, lifting it onto a … More…

I am probably the only person in the world who is going to criticize Uncharted 2, not that it is bad or anything, it is like eating junk food — a bag of crispy potato chips with a root beer ice cream float, knowing it is bad for your health but you will savor every last drop and morsel anyway. It is like picking up the best-looking girl in the bar and finding out later that you have to pay … More…

Widely known as one of the best video game ever, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is in fact not, but one of the worst games you have to play. And to not play it would be like not reading the last 10 pages of the book while everything culminates to the false promise of a climatic conclusion, and basically drop that ball on you and crushes you with that sour feeling. Metal Gear Solid 4 is like … More…

I confess that at the office of AGG, we worship Tim Schaefer. So we could not have had higher hopes for Brutal Legend, Double Fine Production’s 2nd game, published by EA,  designed by the legendary Tim Shaefer who brought us adventure favorites from the all time classic Day of Tentacle, beyond awesome Monkey Island, to the cinematic masterpiece Grim Fandango. So you can see we approached Brutal Legend with some kind of biased predisposition that it would be a godly … More…

I tried my best to dislike Kingdom Hearts 358/2 but I ended up appreciating the little things that it had to offer so in hindsight I would say it lay somewhere between a hidden gem of a game and a complete waste of time, or in layman’s terms, it simply isn’t too bad. Yes I admit it, I played it with some kind of biased disposition carried from Kingdom Hearts 2. To those who aren’t familiar with the game, the … More…