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I review over fifty games a year, and many of them are jRPGs. jRPGs are usually twenty hours long minimum. I try to finish most of them, even if I don't like them. However, when I quit a game, I have a reason for it. If your game is a nigh unplayable mess, don't blame me for not talking about...

Nocturne is the perfect jRPG, and I will believe that until Atlus comes out with something better. It has ruined me on most all other turn based combat. Shadow of the Collossus is the perfect... something. I don't know what it is, but it's definitely something. In truth, there is no...

Demon's Souls is pretty hard. Persona PSP is hellishly difficult, though admittedly a rebalanced port of an older game. Both Persons 3&4 present a challenge on Normal and are very hard on Hard. Devil May Cry 3. Mega Man 9. Disgaea. God Hand. Sin & Punishment 2 is coming out soon and is Treasure...

He also said that you could have a good enough time with it on a plane flight, just so long as it wasn't too long a time. Coming from Yahtzee, that's practically a recommendation.

Except he said the game was pretty good, just too easy. Mario games are only bad, from what I've seen, when they're party games, and even then they're still perfectly good for party games, even if not as good as Raving Rabids. Super Mario Galaxy? Great game and easily one of the best. New Super...

Game was good when it came out, but fails to stand the test of time. Timing mechanics that it had have been improved upon in the Mario and Luigi games, and Mother 3 has something similar, but better. Humor is better in the Mario and Luigi games simply on account of Fawful. The platforming is...

Review felt lacking, and I think it was, in part, due to the amount of time devoted to "This game is too easy..." Maybe it's just me, but Yahtzee seems a bit schizophrenic when deciding what level of difficulty he likes. One moment he's bitching about how the level of difficult in games like...

I wouldn't say SotC was cinematic actually. In fact, it was as far removed from cinematic as you can get. It had polish and presentation, and was an excellent game, but that hardly makes it cinematic. In fact, it did many things that absolutely would not work in a cinematic experience. Like...

Never was interested in the game to begin with. From what little I did see the game tried to sell itself on sex appeal, and if a game isn't going to respect me, I'm not going to respect it enough to check it out. Friend played it and brought up pretty much everything Yahtzee mentioned, except...

I was talking about this game with a friend, my friend disliking the game for more Yahtzee-esque reasons than the reasons I hate it, and I came to the conclusion that this mechanic is absolutely moronic to have attached to any sort of action-adventure/puzzle-platformer, but would be splendid in...

I think, more than anything, my main problem with Scribblenauts is that when I tried to be creative it punished me. Put chlorine in the water to kill the piranha? Doesn't work. Use a fishing rod to pull it out so it'll drown in the air? Doesn't work and it'll bite you to death. Try to take out...

I have to say I agree with Yahtzee. I don't have a problem with sequels in particular, I just have a problem with unnecessary ones, which he addressed. Though I would say that games that share the same name due to game mechanics rather than plot reasons (i.e. Persona) ought be exempt from this...