Archive for February 25th, 2008

Dungeon Explorer: Warrior of Ancient Arts (DS)

Gaming, Handheld, Sections: February 25th, 2008

Dungeon Explorer is a poorly made hack’n slach title that I cannot recommend at all.  It is a shallow diablo style game with no depth, bad gameplay and looks like it should have came out on the gameboy advance instead of the DS.  Honestly Baldur’s Gate for the gameboy advance is a much better game [...]

Naruto: Ninja Destiny (DS)

Gaming, Handheld, Sections: February 25th, 2008

Naruto: Ninja Destiny falls into that area called close but no cigar.  Naruto: Ninja Destiny tries to replicate the fighting game Clash of Ninja series (GC/Wii) and comes close.  The downside is that the gameplay is sluggish, frame rate drops (slow downs) and graphics are muddy.  Some characters like Kakashi don’t react as quickly as [...]

Have some Phun (Windows/Linux)

Gaming, PC, Sections: February 25th, 2008

Here is a unique 2D rendering tool that uses physics as the hook.
It is basically a easy to use sandbox in which you can draw, create, edit, do whatever with a variety of objects. There really is no “point” to the tool, just to play around and see what you can come up with.
I’ve used [...]

Final Fantasy VII…On the NES (NES)

Console, Gaming, Sections: February 25th, 2008

Okay maybe not exactly the NES, but the famicom.
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Some company took the whole FFVII game and trimmed it down to fit on a Famicom catreidge. The author of this article says thatthey did some amazing things that he though would never work on the ol’ 8-bit system to [...]