Review: Child of Eden
It isn’t every day I get to review a sequel to a cult Dreamcast music rhythm on-rails shooter. Or that you get to read one. Let’s both enjoy this, shall we? ;
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Retro(ish) Review: The Club (PC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlVIT6uYR_c&feature=related More than three years ago Sega published Bizarre Creations’ much criticised score attack shooter and while it’s not really old enough to be considered retro it has plenty of old-timey sensibilities that makes it perfect for a retrospective. It’s also too much like Sonic the Hedgehog for its own…
Review: Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury
In ancient times, long before any of us can remember, the N64 was graced with two of the weirder titles in the entire catalogue of Treasure games. One of those was Bangai-O, a stage based shooter where you piloted a large robot capable of firing hundreds of retaliatory missiles towards…
Guardian Heroes releasing on XBLA this Fall. Online co-op. Remastered graphics. Holy ****.
I am literally too excited for my own good right now. Guardian Heroes is one of my all-time favourite Sega Saturn games and a fondly remembered Treasure classic. For those new to the series, it started off as a fantasy RPG style beat’em up and six-player fighting game before a…
New Shining Force title confirmed to be in development.
This is a fantastically butchered screenshot of Shining Force. If this does nothing for you, I’m sorry to be wasting your time, but if two men staring each other down surrounded by words like ‘Dark Dwarf’ and ‘MP’ rekindles something in your heart and/or loins, this might just interest you….
Tri-Ace release new tech demo to presumably accumulate interest and human drool
Acclaimed (at least by us) developers Tri-Ace have been worryingly quiet since releasing Sega published Resonance of Fate and the PS3 port of Star Ocean: The Last Hope, but to tide us over between game announcements the company have released a new rendering demo which you can see embedded above….
Retro Review: X-Men 2 – Clone Wars
If you’re anything like me, the constant talk of Streets of Rage lately has had you hankering for some more good old fashioned couch coop beat’em up goodness. I recently saw James Marsden in holiday fluff-piece ‘Hop’, which reminded me of how much they screwed him over with a terrible…