Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift - Staff Review
When you’re a kid, summer vacation is the best time for swimming, riding bikes, and playing outside until after sundown. But for Luso, the main character of Final Fantasy Tactics A2, summer vacation is about leading a clan, fighting monsters, and saving another world. It is the making of an epic “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” essay.
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Witcher Enhanced Details from E3
When I dropped by the Atari booth, Tom Ohle gave me a little walkthrough of some of the improvements they made for The Witcher Enhanced edition. He said that they had listened to the feedback from fans and media and really wanted to fix the problems people had.
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Puzzle Quest Expands, Seeks Revenge on Plague Lord
So you’ve finished Puzzle Quest, and you need something to keep you busy while waiting for Galactrix? Starting today, a new expansion titled Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - Revenge of the Plague Lord, is available from the Xbox LIVE Arcade for 700 MS points.
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Final Fantasy IV DS Makes Its Debut
Square Enix’s Final Fantasy IV DS has hit store shelves today. The portable remake of the 1991 SNES classic now features new cut scenes, voice overs, enhanced graphics, mini-games, and a new ability system known as the “Augment System.” Final Fantasy IV DS is on sale at a suggested retail price of $39.99 U.S. and is rated E10+.
Mythos On Its Way to Becoming a Myth?
Beset by layoffs and financial difficulties, Flagship Studios announced on its official site that as of July 19, Mythos is on hiatus. Mythos is a free-to-play online RPG in the style of Diablo and revenue was expected to stem from purchases of in-game items. The game had already proceeded with Alpha and Beta testing. Fans wanting to read the official announcement with their own eyes, can go the game’s official site.
FEStival to Begin in Europe This Fall
When it was announced that Persona 3 was getting an expansion in the form of Persona 3 FES, most believed it would never see the light of day in North America, and were surprised and delighted when it did. Now European gamers will get to join in the festivities as KOEI has announced that it will be bringing the game to over this October.
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Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard - Staff Review
Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard is a dungeon crawler that seeks to induce nostalgia for the very earliest RPGs; games that, if given half a chance, would happily hand a player their own teeth in a bag. The game’s designers have succeeded in producing a tough, classically-styled RPG, but its high level of difficulty, slow-paced plot, and one-dimensional cast is going to make it fairly impenetrable to anyone without a pre-existing love of dungeon exploration and turn-based combat. As far as dungeon crawlers go, Etrian Odyssey II is better than the vast majority, but this particular sub-genre remains a very insular and traditional one, and Etrian Odyssey II isn’t going to change any of that.
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