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Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (PS4) Review

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It’s time to cap off my first ever run-through of the Mass Effect Trilogy (via the PS4 Legendary Edition) by taking a look at the controversial third entry. All I really knew is that people didn’t like the ending so they patched in new cutscenes with more context and stuff but people still weren’t generally happy, but by the time the credits rolled I didn’t mind the ending really. Well, the one I got anyway, though again that obviously has all the added stuff from after people complained… Anyway, I did find things I didn’t like about the plot and gameplay, so it’s definitely a step down from ME2 as the general consensus seems to be, so let’s take a deeper look and find out why!

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Dragon Ball: Final Bout (PS1) Review

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I know what you’re thinking, “Didn’t you just say how much you hated Ultimate Battle 22 and you waited until the PS2 games came out?” Why yes, and that’s still true, but what I did do was at some point in between Budokai 1 and 2 I found Final Bout in a second-hand games shop for a couple of pounds and thought “why not?”, assuming it was a poorer man’s Tekken or Street Fighter EX, not knowing of course that it was literally UB22 but with 3D graphics instead. *sigh*. Still, by covering this now it means whenever I get to the first chunk of Z films I can review the Budokai trilogy one after another, so that’s nice, plus there’s something fitting about review a GT-heavy game while reviewing the Dragon Ball film that was released while GT was airing and featured GT elements… It sort of matches! Let’s take a look!

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Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 (PS1) Review

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Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 was the first Dragon Ball game I played, being released here at the start of the newly emerging but quickly expanding English speaking Dragon Ball explosion but way after the game was in any way relevant. Hell, the PS2 was already out and well established by that point! I brought it cheap thinking it would “tide me over” until the PS2 DBZ games came along (which they thankfully did quite quickly!) but I barely played it because it was so… SO bad. Even my newly minted DBZ hype couldn’t cover the slow, clunky gameplay. Guess what? It’s not any better now! Let’s get this out of the way, shall we?

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2) / Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – Definitive Edition (PS4) Review

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It’s time to bring a close to my look at the PS2 GTA trilogy and their “Definitive Editions” with the iconic San Andreas. As you’d hope with the final entry in a trilogy it built upon what came before it and added so much more… everything, even cities to explore. Sadly this is the one game where its Definitive Edition is still a bit of a mess, but ignoring that little modern road bump I’ve had nothing but praise for San Andreas since it came out, let’s see if that still holds true in 2023, nearly 20 years later (bloody hell…)

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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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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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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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