Games

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Manga) Review

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As a new on-and-off review series I’ll be looking at the Legend of Zelda manga series as I brought the rather lovely treasure chest shaped box containing the hardback Legendary editions of the series (except the Twilight Princess series anyway). While I was tempted to put them in game-release order I decided to instead follow the series as it was released, therefore let’s start with Ocarina of Time! It’s odd to be covering the Manga of OOT when I haven’t actually covered the legendary game itself yet, but there you go! Let’s take a look at how good it is as a manga, as well as comparing it to its source material (ignoring obvious differences like Link talking, obviously…)

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Legends of Wrestling II (PS2) Review

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After the original Legends of Wrestling was a “Fun experiment” that I quickly grew tired of Legends of Wrestling II came along and much to my surprise was far more playable than I was expecting, crossing over into just plain “good” thanks to the new territories-based career mode and the addition of four World of Sport era legends from the UK (in the PAL version). Does it still hold up in 2022 though? The answer may not be as straight forward as I would’ve thought!

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Dynasty Warriors 5 / XL (PS2) Review

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The Dynasty Warriors film is up next in this marathon, so why I am reviewing Dynasty Warriors 5 and not the first Dynasty Warriors? Well, the first was a pretty poor 1v1 fighting game rather than the series that film is based on that started with DW2, and DW5 was the first game in the franchise (and indeed the first Warriors game in general) I ever played, so it made the most sense. It’s not like they don’t all share the same story anyway! So let’s take a look at Dynasty Warriors 5 as well as its “XL” expansion, given you needed the original game to play it anyway so it’s more like DLC, to use modern terminology…

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Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS) Review

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As Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s fifth wave of DLC arrives so does a review of a previous entry! Mario Kart DS was easily the DS game I played the most thanks to my friend having a copy and bringing his DS round so we could play multiplayer. Playing it now I still have to applaud both the level design and graphics for the handheld, plus the amount of modes on offer. It was certainly no throw away effort, that’s for sure! Let’s take a look…

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Street Fighter 6 (PS5) Review

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Street Fighter 6, it’s safe to say, overachieves in its debut, a lesson clearly learned from the poor barebones release of Street Fighter V. Not only does it have a good selection of characters old and new, not only does it have arcade mode, versus, online, and other classic modes but it also has a massive and lengthy single player campaign complete with create-a-fighter facilities and open world elements plus an online hub complete with old arcade games you can play and compete against others on. Out of character in a very good way! Let’s take a more detailed look.

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Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate (PS4) Review

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The next “game to live action movie marathon” at least has an accompanying game this time! Yes, the reboot Mortal Kombat movie is under the microscope and due to that it made the most sense to look at the most recent (as of this review) MK game, given a lot of the visual identity and extremely gory fatalities seen in the film are based off of the most recent efforts. I enjoyed my time with MK11, but I’m glad I waited for it to be cheap (and with all the DLC) as it’s never been my favourite fighting game franchise, and some decisions made in its design are, um, questionable, to say the least. Let’s take a look!

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch) Review

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Ah yes, another one of those “does the internet really need another review praising this game?” review. Still, I’ve played it a lot, want to talk about that experience and also have a review to link to when this game inevitably ends up on my Top 10 Games list for this year. So, let’s look at The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, shall we?

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Star Wars – Jedi: Survivor (PS5) Review

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As my review of Jedi: Fallen Order will tell you I loved that game, not just the actual gameplay but the story especially, so when Jedi: Survivor was announced I was excited and now it finally arrived I’m happy to say it lived up to expectations, though oddly flipped in that this time round I enjoyed the story but loved the gameplay. So while everyone (including me!) is playing the new Zelda game, allow me to throw up my review of the game I was frantically trying to finish before that game’s release!

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Super Robot Wars 30 Review

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When I reviewed SRW T in 2021 I said about the then-soon-to-be-released Super Robot Wars 30 and how I’d wait a year this time, and given its now 2023 you’d think I kept that promise but the truth is I brought this and all its DLC back in August it’s just that the game is so long that I started getting burnout in early October so decided to “rest it”, picking it back up last month and finally completing it last week (after Resi 4 Remake) Is the staggering 139 hours I sank into this tactical RPG worth it? Let’s find out!

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Resident Evil 4 Remake (PS5) Review

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In my original look at Resident Evil 4 (viewable HERE!) I said that while it was undeniably a great game me at the time didn’t like the weird un-Resi story and all the QTE cutscenes, but either way it was still fun to play. So when RE4 Remake was confirmed I was confused and a little annoyed as Code: Veronica is actually in need of an update unlike 4, but I will say that this Remake is right up there with the RE2 remake as like that it keeps most things the same but updates it (like removing the outdated QTEs!) and looks gorgeous to boot. So let’s take a deeper look!

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