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

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…

Zen Review – Heavy Rain Taxidermist

If you’ve been on our site for a while, you would know that our article titles are usually quite deceiving. So we confess here right now that we aren’t just dissecting the Taxidermist DLC of Heavy Rain but also the full game itself. First we’ll talk about the DLC, which comes with the pre-order of Heavy Rain — but if you belong to one of those morons that didn’t pay for it in advance, you’d have to shell out another … More…

Zen Review — Fatal Frame 4 Fan Translation Project

So officially there isn’t a Fatal Frame 4, but the dedicated fans team Riivolution made it happen. A commendable effort really, almost inline with the remakes of classics like Ultima V and Quest For Glory 2, thanks to the Wii’s extremely friendly hackability and import capabilities — we are not responsible for what you do with your Wii, sure you can play this easily on Homebrew with a prepatched disk image, but being law abiding citizens, as long as you … More…