During his run of Silent Hill 3, Kyle of Run Button was talking about not using the beef jerky item, with which I haven't bothered much, either. "There's just stuff in games that I don't use," he explains. Me too ( Read more... )

My apologies for being away for a bit here. I'm trying out a new translation job that requires me to stay inside (yet otherwise occupied) a lot, and I'm going nuts. I mean, I'm in winter in Maine, so it's not like I'm going to be going much of anywhere anyway, but I'm not sure yet if spending this much time in front of a computer is right for me ( Read more... )

One of the problems of writing about game music remixes is variety. We have so many arrangements of FF6's "Terra" and FF4's "Battle 2" that you could post one daily for a year and not run out. Everyone sticks to the big guns, the Castlevanias and the Mega Mans and the Final Fantasys - and we get a lot of good remixes out of it, mind, but ( Read more... )

I was delaying posting this until I finished my reaction posts for the first half of Silent Hill 4. I'm not going to get back to that game in the next couple weeks, though, and I'd rather do one unbroken stream of commentary for it - so heck with it; let's get this out the door and take an accounting of the games I played in 2012.

Beaten:
Neo ( Read more... )

Akihiko Mori's career in game composing was over before it really began. His resume reveals lots of work for 16-bit titles but little major until the RPG Mystic Ark in 1995. He passed away of cancer not three years later, no older than 32 ( Read more... )

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It seems like I've posted a lot of negativity on here as of late. I can't renege on my opinions, but perhaps I should balance them out with reminders of the stuff in the hobby that made me smile recently.

- Supergreatfriend finished his LP of Shadows of the Damned, an underappreciated action title by Suda 51 (with music by Akira Yamaoka) that ( Read more... )

There is a Mystic Ark manga.


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OK, so how does Mystic Ark play? Well, like it really wants to be an adventure game but is afraid it'll disappoint its RPG parents. I have a review here that hits the high notes, but what are LiveJournals for if not to blather past all point or reason.

Let's break this down Ye Olde GameFAQs Way:

Gameplay: There're actually two parts here. See ( Read more... )