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I've come to the realization that I'm just a few missions shy of all that FF13 has to offer -- challenge-wise, that is, because while I could spend dozens more hours of playtime maxing Crystariums and completing ultimate weapons and so forth, nothing the game offers really justifies that time expenditure. And while it surprises me somewhat to say ( Read more... )

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Lightning: She has a mullet, what?

Sazh: Being 30 doesn't make you an old man. (I looked it up -- he's actually 40 -- but still.)

Snow: I was ready for another Zell or Wakka. This guy is surprisingly subdued.

Vanille: I heard from fifty people how bad her VA was. It's not as bad as I was braced for, but I'm pretty sure the ( Read more... )

(Three kids in costumes come up to you. HINT: Trick or treat!)

I write "CANDY." A candy appears and I give it to the kids. I win!

This is obviously unsatisfying. I reboot the level and try it in Advanced mode, which forces you to try the level three times in a row without repeating any words.

Round 1: I pick up the nearby jack-o-lantern and ( Read more... )

I had meant to say something earlier -- see this movie ( Read more... )

Dokapon Kingdom is the illegitimate lovechild of Mario Party and the RPG genre. How does that work? It works great ( Read more... )

Do you own a DS? Do you like Civilization, or 4X games in general? Buy this game. In fact, if you really like 4X games, you might want to buy a DS just for this game.

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (excuse the indiscretion in the title - this is a Sid Meier game) is a cleaned-up, streamlined Civilization. Released for the 360, PS3, and DS ( ( Read more... )

I thought she was just being careless, but then I noticed a pattern. "Are you clearing out all of the blocks ( Read more... )

The 7th Saga is an Enix RPG for the SNES, best known for its unforgiving difficulty. You play as one of seven characters out to get the seven runes, seven seven seven seven. I never got very far renting the game, but I eventually bought the game and completed it several times. Despite being rather light on the story up to that point (or maybe ( Read more... )

Will you kill me if I tell you this game is better than Final Fantasy VII? I don't mean that categorically, of course. From a strict gameplay standpoint I think 7 beats 8, and it's very rare that I decide on any other basis, but hear me out ( Read more... )