6,557 reviews · showing 5,361–5,380
Reader SNES
It's something of human nature to form rifts and divisions over situations. When you're older, serious issues like divorce, abortion, religion, etc. cause people to choose a side and defend/attack zealously. When you're younger (or just a…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader SNES
It must be a case of brainwashing. For, if any doubts ever entered the rabid SNES fan's head, they'd be soon shaken away by the word ''Super'' in the game's title. No game with such surname hyperbole could ever be second-best. The game is…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Sega CD
Sometimes you have to look where the coal is to find the diamond. Robo Aleste is a vertical shooter of true, distinct quality, mostly unknown and unplayed, even by shooter vets with extensive and expensive collections. As common as…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Sega 32X
Space Harrier is a game of unique mold from a time when there were practically no conventions for games. In its day, most genres hadn't been carved yet and games only resembled each other in minimalistic principal similarities. As the…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Sega 32X
It doesn't take much for a great game to be overlooked. Lack of marketing, release window too late in a console's life... just one snafu can make an excellent and potentially successful game disappear from gamers' minds. Blackthorne had…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Saturn
Shooters, typical in their brievity and to-the-point nature, have never been known for scale. They're reknowned for intensity and adrenaline, but they most usually come without grandeur or flair. This isn't to their detriment; it rather…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Saturn
Never call this game Galactic Attack. Its arcade form was called RayForce, its home conversion in Japan was titled Layer Section... both were great, virile names. Acclaim saw fit to ravage such an eminent mixture of gameplay and…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader PlayStation
It has been decreed that Dracula shall only rise from his grotesque slumber every 100 years. Pity then poor Simon Belmont, who has been burdened with no less than four battles with the demon. As many times as Simon has willed himself to…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Genesis
So we waited patiently for a decent X-Men game to come along. Marvel and their programming partners knew the franchise was strong enough to sell complete junk to the eager youth comprising their target audience. As our eagerness and…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Genesis
Thunder Force III is an initially impacting shooter. At first thrust, you're hooked; you rejoice in its beauty and it's soothingly comfortable. Thunder Force III has the basic elements of the series that earmark games like Lightening Force…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader NES
Deathbots is a lot like a stray dog. For one thing, it lacks a license. Secondly, its black, funny-shaped outer casing makes it a social pariah in a crowd of nice, clean, uniformly manufactured NES cartridges, much as a mutt with three…
snowdragon · March 14, 2004
Reader Genesis
Space Harrier II is eerily similar to Space Harrier. In fact, it is more along the lines of a Space Harrier Remix than it is a sequel; it brings nothing new to the table and basically just rearranges the composition of the first game. Be…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Genesis
Sonic 3 is a masterpiece, plain and simple. It is the culmination of years of experience, talent, and refined technique; it is the masterwork of a gifted few that lets shine through their ingenuity and genius at their art. Sonic 3 is as…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Genesis
Competition made games better. More specifically, vision and imagination in a time of competition made games better. Such is the only reason there is an existence of my favorite gaming lineage ever, that of Sonic the Hedgehog. Without the…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Genesis
This game is bad, bad, bad, bad. How bad? Here's the premise: You were once a mutant. Now, though... Now... you're NOT. That's right! All those cool X-Men mutants like Gambit and Havok and all of them are nothing compared to these…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Genesis
As the world's people have consistently turned to the Belmonts for protection from the manifested Evil that is Dracula, so too have the Belmonts reciprocally thrived of their sacrifice to the destruction of the dark lord. It's in their…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Genesis
Altered Beast has become an internet nerd's whipping boy. What was once an unprecedented and unparalleled arcade brawler now stands trial among a generation of gamers not old enough to remember its debut more than a decade ago. This…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Genesis
The feeling, when you want to like something, but can't- it permeates throughout the Batman and Robin experience. It makes you realize how great the potential for the game was, and conversely, how sad it is that it never reached it. The…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Dreamcast
Gattsu is a bad hero. Gattsu is a man who cares for no one, except the singular exception of his life's love, Casca. He searches the medieval wasteland world for the cure for her disease, his soul an otherwise vacant, purposeless being. He…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
Reader Dreamcast
Soul Calibur wasn't always the Dreamcast's ''best'' game. Before its announcement, unveiling, and subsequent hype in its DC form, Soul Calibur was simply an arcade game. It sat in the middle of arcade walls, collecting just enough coin to…
ethereal · March 14, 2004
