Let’s… Sorta… Talk About Wani Wani World

I love how weird games can be sometimes. The idea that one day you could be playing as a dolphin trying to find his friends and the next day, you’re shooting through swathes of bad guys to save the city is just magic. I don’t know about you, but I like the weirder games that…

Let’s… Sorta… Talk About Rage Racer

Rage Racer is definitely an apt word for this game. There’s something appropriate about calling it Rage Racer when you feel as though Namco, a company who can make very good games, should be doing a bit more for their patrons than what they give us here. When they first graced the Playstation with Ridge…

Let’s NEVER Talk About American Gladiators

I’m going to let you into a secret that NO ONE in my family knows. There’s a bit of a back story to all of this and you need to hold on cos it’s a somewhat longish story. Gladiators, the UK version of the US show, came to TV in 1992 and was cancelled in…

Let’s Talk About Soul Blade

Transcending history, and the world, a tale of souls and swords, eternally retold. Officially one of the greatest opening lines in any game ever. Truer facts are indeed hard to come by. But when the booming announcer speaks those immortal lines, you are already immersed into what this game is about to give you. Indeed,…

Let’s Talk About Wonder Boy In Monster World

Wonderboy’s a bit of a strange one for me. Generally speaking, the games didn’t have a massive following in the West. Despite having roughly six main series games in the Master System and Mega Drive era, by the time we went off into 3D, Wonderboy was gone. And to be honest, I don’t even know…

Let’s Talk About Bloody Roar

Look, you and I both know that some people are going to see a game like this and automatically think of furries. For the uninitiated, furries are people who like to dress up in somewhat cartoon-like animal costumes. However, the internet has managed to make it all a little bit more complicated than that but…

Let’s… Sorta… Talk About Golden Axe

Look, I don’t want to be THAT person – the one who says long-admired games of the past aren’t very good – but Golden Axe is a game that has aged like milk. It’s got to a point where it hasn’t even become yoghurt, it’s just gotten really smelly. Imagine that milk you opened in…

Let’s NOT Talk About Shadow Struggle… but Let’s Talk About Critical Blow

So here’s a new one. I figured that with both Shadow Struggle and Critical Blow being created by the same developer, AND with one being a… sort of sequel to the other, that I’d lump the pair of them together into one review. Therefore, you only have to listen to me rabbiting on for half…

Let’s… Sorta… Talk About Maui Mallard

I like Donald Duck. I think a lot of people like him. I also think a lot of people prefer him to Mickey Mouse because even though he’s got a massive anger problem and grumbles at every opportunity, he has personality and charm to him. And I like a bit of personality and charm. Donald…

Let’s NOT Talk About Fido Dido

There’s something to be said about company mascots in the late 80s and early 90s. Piggy-backing somewhat on the ‘tude era of gaming/programming/advertising, brand names decided they needed a way to get people to remember their products. As such, we ended up with the oft-animated mascot character to appeal to a predominantly younger audience. Of…

Let’s… Sorta… Talk About Circuit Breakers

If Micro Machines were still a legitimate thing, I would be a very happy man. You might be asking, “but didn’t they release a Micro Machines game recently?” and I would stop you there before you embarrassed yourself because THAT GAME DOES NOT DESERVE A SINGLE MENTION IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF ANYTHING ANYWHERE. Very…

Let’s NEVER Talk About The Gadget Twins

My brother and I used to buy a gaming magazine called Sega Pro way back in the days when magazines actually meant something for gaming. And somewhere, hidden in the magazine, was a review for this game. Neither of us seemed to know anything about it at all. There weren’t any previews for it as…