Great bonus stage in that top left one
Great bonus stage in that top left one
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The Manga Bible, UK edition out today, with German and French editions. Hot pink covers overprinted with black graphic imagery by Baron Yoshimoto. Block capital lettering in yellow for the title and white for author name.
Happy New Book Birthday to me! #TheMangaBible is in the shops today. I can't go into town and seek it out on the shelves because I have to stay at home until my shoulder heals, so please help me see how it looks in the wild. Pls post any sightings - photos if poss! - and link to reviews you see.
Thatβs Resident Evil Requiem finished. My hot take is that itβs the much more successful execution of what Resident Evil 6 was trying to do.
Today is my birthday!
As a present to me, why not load up my blog and choose a game to read about?
Iβve got thoughtful posts on all kinds of games from 1979 to 2025, across all kinds of systems both popular and obscure.
gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com
Honestly think my favourite genre of film/performance is unlikeable people who become fractionally more likeable as the film goes on. Seeβ¦ Bruce Campbell, Simon Pegg, Stephen Chow. No idea why but itβs clearly a thing.
Haha. I was the one who gave Time Extension the news tip. :)
Today is my birthday!
As a present to me, why not load up my blog and choose a game to read about?
Iβve got thoughtful posts on all kinds of games from 1979 to 2025, across all kinds of systems both popular and obscure.
gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com
Hopefully this tips you over the edgeβ¦
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Yuppppppp. Itβs a shame a generic sports game will sell a lot more to the general kids and casual crowd more than even a half decent RPG would
Totally agree! Shining The Holy Ark does the same thing.
The senior leadership who made Golden Sun and Shining Force are very much still there but getting very old. I imagine they could still make a great traditional tactics RPG, if they staffed up. But do the economics make sense?
The truth is that the games industry is brutal right now and at least Camelot is still going when other small devs in Nintendoβs orbit (Skip, AlphaDream) have long since disappeared. I imagine theyβre glad of the work.
Iβd LOVE a new Camelot RPG more than anyone, but thatβs not Nintendoβs fault.
Iβm not sure Nintendo is really to blame for this. They donβt own Camelot, who remain independent and are instead keeping them going with good, reliable work. Sure the could commission a new Golden Sun, but Sega could commission a Shining Force, Square Enix could commission Dragon Quest Tacticsβ¦
I donβt know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine itβs going to a website and typing βoh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go onβ as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like βbuy eggs milk bread and a horseβ
Oh man. Hope you and yours are okay.
Itβs nice to see this get a fan translation even if itβs not that great. You can read about it, and literally every other Lupin III game, in this epic blog post: gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com/2022/10/30/l...
Oh boy
Old post!
Classic Mega Drive shoot-βem-up action with Gley Lancer.
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Listen to the latest Big Picture podcast if you havenβt already. Thereβs a great interview with Matt Johnson in which he discusses the editing and the hardest shot they did.
I assumed as much
Related: Why have Arc Sys not made a Street Fighter Alpha 4 yet
Ah. There you go! Very interesting they used an EU pack shot
Iβm intrigued by the red square in the corner of the Street Fighter Alpha poster. At first I thought it was erasing the Virgin Entertainment logo but canβt quite find a version of the art that has the logo in that corner. So maybe they covered the ESRB rating with a red square for some reason
No new arrivals this week so hereβs something beloved from the collectionβ¦
Charmed and fascinated by Chess Wars, a DOS game released in 1996 that features live-action cutscenes of medieval melee when playing pieces engage one another in battle.
Got me that Resident Evil Requiem and thereβs an action sequence in the first hour or so thatβs up there with the seriesβs best. Weβre talking RE4 levels of tense sandbox action and satisfying release. Bravo!
To be fair, they weren't lying. This is great English.
You donβt always gotta be NiGHTS. Sometimes you just need to take a train and relax.
Wrote about the joyous RPG-esque systems of Across the Unknown, the new Star Trek game which I think RPG fans should definitely not sleep on: