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Fable 3 — Classic Example of how to Mess Up a Sequel

JetFable — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:26:23 +0000

I can’t really talk about Fable 3 without talking about Fable 2, and I can’t talk about Fable 2 without talking about Fable 1. When Fable 1 came out, it was an enjoyable little game that didn’t take itself too seriously, with a sense of quirky British humor (its more the accent than the actual humor), and it managed to be fun while carrying a loose sense of morality and the consequences of choices spiraling down to, well, something else. ... More...

Ultima VI Project: A Fine Remake to Fuel Our Nostalgia

JetFable — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:53:08 +0000

We have long anticipated Ultima VI Project since we played Lazarus 3 years ago, calling it one of the best games ever made. Ultima VI: False Prophet, back when it was released in 1990, felt like the first big budget Ultima Origin developed, stretching the everyday PCs players had to a crawl; Similar to today’s Crysis (or yesterday’s Strike Commander), It featured state-of-the-art graphics and for the first time, a 1:1 scale of town to over-world eliminating combat transition screens ... More...

Alpha Protocol — A Hidden Gem Among Rough Reviews

JetFable — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:55:08 +0000

Alpha Protocol, the latest espionage RPG from Obsidian, years in the making — so how bad is it really after seeing all the harsh reviews from so-called professional reviewers out there? That isn’t the right question to ask at all. One should ask just how good is it? And it is good, it is even bloody brilliant. Alpha Protocol is a spy game that is every bit an RPG in its tiniest details, from character-building, stats, dialogue choices with moral ... More...

3D Dot Game Heroes — Retro Love Letter

JetFable — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:54:34 +0000

It really is impossible to not talk about this game with a sly smile on our faces. 3D Dot Game Heroes is the ultimate homage to the NES-era games; in fact we would describe it as the porn for the 30 year old — those of us who grew up playing the first Zelda and Dragon Quest. We once saw people on message boards commenting on this game as a blatant rip-off of Zelda; they are missing the point — ... More...

Square’s Chaos Rings on the iPad — the Age of Hardcore Gaming on Apple Devices Begins

JetFable — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:54:39 +0000

We haven’t been fans of serious gaming on the iPhone — first of all, the longevity of the battery power literally sucks; secondly, the screen is too small; and the third major point being that the lack of any physical controller options throw any serious action gaming out the window. Sure we have played games on the iPhone, we’ve done that a lot, we have even developed games on it – but we went for that magic 5 min that ... More...

Final Fantasy XIII 26 hours in, Just About Done With the Tutorial?

Zilla — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:52:35 +0000

We are one of the few people that dreaded the release of FF XIII, because we knew it was going to be bad, but we had to play it anyway, if not just to see how drastically different it was. I’ll be frank here — it isn’t disastrously bad, it is just simply quite a disappointment, something that you would come to expect, with the decline of the qualities of JRPGs. This generation has been terrible — the decent ones ... More...

Mass Effect 2 – Massively Effective

Zilla — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:43:05 +0000

We’ve been looking forward to Mass Effect 2 for a while, since we were really impressed with the first one — it told a great Science Fiction story with great atmosphere and gameplay. Mass Effect 2 improves upon the original, gameplay-wise, it takes out menial long elevator rides, driving sequences, managing items and equipments, juvenile hacking/unlocking mini-games, a bunch of things that didn’t really bother us that much the first time around — and made the game more like a ... More...

Zen Impression: Might & Magic — Clash of Heroes and a Reminiscence of Xeen

JetFable — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:43:36 +0000

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes came as a pleasant surprise, that we never did keep taps of this game, and that when it arrived in our hands along with Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Clash of Heroes captured our undivided attention that we totally ignored the anticipated Legend of Zelda. Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, published by Ubisoft, developed by Capybara Games, is a strategy RPG game on the DS. Clash of Heroes is so unique that there’s nothing exactly ... More...

Zen Review: Dragon Age Origins 2nd Run Plot Analysis

Zilla — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:07:04 +0000

We rarely review a game twice but we fell in love with Dragon Age Origins, even more so on our 2nd run, and thought we would break this rule and write another article about it. Be forewarned that the following article will contain spoilers, as a matter of fact it will contain nothing but spoilers. If you are not ready for it (which means you haven’t played the game), read our first relatively spoiler-free review. How do we end up ... More...

Dragon Age: Origins – The Good Old Days of Dragonlance

JetFable — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:08:01 +0000

We knew that when we got our hands on Dragon Age: Origins, we would not be able to do anything else for 60 hours except eat and sleep and basic lavatory needs, barely even that. Developed by Bioware, Dragon Age: Origins, is exactly what a cRPG fan would expect if he WAS a fan of Bioware, but what cRPG fan would not be a fan, because for a decade or so it seemed like it was the only company making ... More...

Half-Minute Hero – So You Wished She Didn’t Call You That

JetFable — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:43:05 +0000

I couldn’t resist telling that joke. Half-Minute Hero was a genuine and delightful surprise. One that blew us away (took just about half a minute) at our office at AGG, as a must-own game for the PSP. Developed by Opus and published by Marvelous and X-Seed, Half-Minute Hero on paper would be an experimental idea in game design, but in execution it is like a drug that brings you more than a half minute of rapture, as a matter of ... More...

Demon’s Souls — A Game that Goes out of its Way to Kick Your Ass

JetFable — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:02:47 +0000

I mean every word of it in a good way. Demon’s Souls, published by From Software, exclusive for the PS3, is a challengingly difficult game, and difficult may be an understatement. Its ability to strenuously challenge the player is a double-edged sword. From Software crafted a masterpiece that distinguishes itself from the myriad of Action-RPG dungeon crawler clones out there, with intensive combat sequences, menacing colossal demons, towering Gothic structures and their dark medieval claustrophobic corridors, with its creepy phantoms ... More...

The Witcher is the Planescape Torment of this Decade

JetFable — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:21:19 +0000

The Witcher enhanced edition distracted me from programming, from writing, from eating… and among other things I don’t plan to talk about. Planescape Torment was the game that did all those things a decade ago. But to understand the Witcher, you don’t have to understand Torment, you simply have to know it as the best cRPG of the last decade. The Witcher is developed by the Polish developer – CD Projekt Red Studio, built on top of the Bioware Aurora ... More...

Valkyrie Profile – Twilight of the gods… Perfection…

JetFable — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:39:26 +0000

Ragnarok, the battle of the end of the world, between Aesirs — pantheon of gods led by Odin, and the Vanir — fire giants led by Loki, and everything in the universe torn asunder, so that was told in Norse Mythology. Eight months before that, Valkyrie, death goddess is dropped onto Midgard(earth) to harvest souls, humans worthy to join the battle. You play Lenneth, In Valkyrie Profile, as she does the bidding of the gods, she discovers herself, and whether she ... More...

Xenogears: a Different Retrospective

JetFable — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:42:29 +0000

Many articles have already been written about Xenogears over the years. For those not familiar with the JRPG genre, the game was released by Squaresoft (now known as Square Enix) in 1998 for the Playstation, during a period of the US gaming scene which could be summarized by a single word: transition. Today I introduce this guest-written article for mainly the die-hard fans.

The 32 bit era In the late 1990s, with Sony’s entrance into the gaming business, video games were being ... More...