Thought I’d spruce up the blog with a new theme as my eyes tend to grow weary of dark themes.
Will see how thing new theme goes for now. It seems I’ve been mainly writing about games for the past few weeks as I am not really watching any new shows as of late.
I may do a review for a book known as Sarum soon as I have been slowly clawing my way through that one.
Interview I stumbled across earlier today. It is quite a pleasant surprise to know how passionate Yu Suzuki is about the series he created, which must come to a conclusion one day.
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A name for the latest entry in the series has finally been decided. It has been many years since the last entry in the series and here is hoping they can recreate the magic and tie up the story.
This was considered to be Sierra’s big project with a massive budget. Roberta Williams has put a lot of effort into this title which – I believe – is her favourite project amongst them all; It is an FMV adventure game. FMV adventure games tend to hold a soft spot for me overall as I find a lot of charm in playing realistic 2d characters in a pre-rendered game environment.
Interesting game demo released. This is supposed to be a prologue to an upcoming game known as The Raven.
Apparently, this will be releasing this month on consoles and PC by a company known as King Arts. Hoping the final product will turn out adequate as it seems good conceptually.
A pleasant surprise to find the adventure game genre making a comeback.
Sunsoft & Tokai Engineering released a title back in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) back in 1990 which was quite akin to Contra. Those craving for a side-scrolling action shooter were in for quite a treat when this title was released.
One of the classics by Capcom back in the day was Code Name: Viper. This title is considered to be a hard yet rewarding game. Taking gameplay design nods from Rolling Thunder Series by Namco, Capcom decided to make a game based on action involving shooting, ducking and revolving doors.
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