As a dedicated Ghostbusters fan since forever—the kind of person old and nerdy enough to have The Real Ghostbusters toys from the first time around, memories of a licensed skateboard I was never qu…

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A flurry of live-action clips kick off side scrolling beat ’em up Yain Sidae, an enthusiastic reminder that this PC game is based on the popular ’02~’03 Korean TV show of the same…

Videogame archaeologist and explorer: Player of the untranslated. Lifter-upper of the unloved and misunderstood.

Tomb-raiding thief Han Lingsha’s scolding mountain recluse Yun Tianhe for the latest pure-hearted yet undeniably ignorant comment he’s made, delicate incense-crafter Liu Mengli’s …

Both the classics and the games they inspired.

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When it burst onto the scene in 1984, Hydlide really was like nothing else. It possesses arcade-like action combat, similar to the sort that would end up beloved in Falcom’s Ys and then combines th…

There’s no doubt that Skald has got the G part of RPG pretty thoroughly covered. The tactical battles are straightforward without being simplistic, my party are flexible in and out of combat,…

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Poes law stats that there is no way to know if a radical standpoint is an expression of a genuine belie, or irony in the absence of clear signifiers. Likewise would I argue that it today is impossi…