Recent content by x84jdh

The two aspects of 4 Heroes that annoyed me the most were its lack of direction and difficulty. Sounds like they nailed "homage to early FF days" to me.

Not that I'm defending Yahtzee's gaming ability -- he might be totally useless, I don't know -- but why would he review a game on a higher difficulty setting? Issues of available time to play aside (harder difficulty levels eat up more time), most people in fact play at the "normal" level; they...

I can't argue with your personal experience of the SMB except to say that the hours spent shooting at the damn dog on the other side of the cartridge were far more personal to me than dodging Hammer Bros. That's not to say that Duck Hunt has much real depth either, although you could easily...

Anybody who has spent more than 15 minutes in a creative writing workshop knows full well that if you're "telling" a story instead of showing it, then you're doing it wrong. All good storytelling is immersive; a story, a show, a movie, a song, a play, a game, or whatever should immerse its...