March 2018

March 26, 2018 Game Over

Story Breakdown: Time Gal (Sega CD)

Episode #6 - This is Game Over: The Early Years, the show where we spoil the story and ending to some of your favorite games. Today we're covering millions of years with Time Gal, the silly full-motion video actio...
March 23, 2018 Review Rewind

Review Rewind: Mortal Kombat Advance (GBA)

Episode #6 - This is Mortal Kombat Advance, which was Midway's misguided efforts to bring the fun of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. I reviewed the game all the way back in 2002 and haven'...
March 19, 2018 Game Over

Story Breakdown: Last Alert (TurboGrafx)

Episode #5 - This is Game Over: The Early Years, the show where we spoil the story and ending to some of your favorite games. Today we're looking at a run 'n gun shoot 'em up that time has forgotten. Last Alert is...
March 15, 2018 Reviews au Courant

Review: Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

In a lot of ways, Yakuza 6 feels like an incredibly safe sequel. That's not to say it's a bad sequel, but it certainly plows a lot of familiar ground. While I largely enjoyed the mystery and couldn't ...
March 14, 2018 Bad Acting

Cruz Brothers - Great Moments in Bad Acting

Episode #10 - Based on a deeply personal story, Cruz Brothers is a brand new fighting game from developer DCF Studios. It tells the tale of a pair of wannabe boxers who go from street fights to center ring. Along t...
March 13, 2018 Reviews au Courant

Review: The Council - Ep. 1: The Mad Ones

The Mad Ones is a good pilot episode that eases us into the period, introduces us to a lot of colorful characters and hooks us by spinning an intriguing mystery full of secret societies and occult act...
March 12, 2018 Reviews au Courant

Review: Cruz Brothers

I can get beyond the horrendous audio mixing, the terrible voice acting and the stuttering cinemas, but what I can't get past is the borderline broken gameplay. Far too many fights devolve into little...
March 09, 2018 Reviews au Courant

Review: Past Cure

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but even with all the technical problems, the terrible writing, unsatisfying story and the laughably bad voice acting, I didn't hate Past Cure. It's far from a g...
March 06, 2018 Reviews au Courant

Review: Super Seducer

The problem with Super Seducer isn't that it's the "most controversial game of the year," as the advertising would like you to believe, but rather that it's the most boring game of the year. Aside fro...
March 05, 2018 Game Over

Story Breakdown: Zombie Nation (NES)

Episode #4 - This is Game Over: The Early Years, the show where we spoil the story and ending to some of your favorite games. Today we're looking at one of the strangest video games of all time. Zombie Nation is m...
March 02, 2018 Reviews au Courant

Review: Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder Devastated

As a time capsule, Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder Devastated is a fun way to look back and see how far iFun4All has come in the last eight years. Unfortunately, as a shoot 'em up/tower defense mash-up, thi...
March 01, 2018 Reviews au Courant

Review: Shiny

When I play games like Shiny, I worry that there may be a generation of gamers that grow up thinking that this is how 2D platformers are supposed to play. It's not. With loose controls, disastrously b...