Year: 2012
Astérix and the Great Rescue
Following excellent reviews and success with Astérix one year earlier, Sega decided to make a sequel. Panoramix is again been kidnapped by …
Chester Cheetah: Too Cool To Fool
Chester Cheetah, the Cheetos-loving cool cat, was something of a product of the nineties. Cool shades? Attitude? You got it! …
Record of Agarest War
In Japan, Idea Factory (アイディアファクトリー) is so renowned for making kusoge it’s affectionately referred to as Idea Fuck (アイディアファック); not …
Kishin Douji Zenki: Battle Raiden
Starting in 1992, Kishin Douji Zenki (or Demon Child Zenki) was a manga serialization in Monthly Shounen Jump. Wikipedia and other sites claim this …
King’s Field / King’s Field II
It is astonishing how much From Software managed to achieve in the scant few months between the first game and …
Spot Goes to Hollywood
Apparently there was enough demand for a sequel to Cool Spot that a sequel would end up being made. What’s …
Change Air Blade
Ah, the shoot-em-up. A genre that has existed in some form since Space Invaders and Galaxian. Through the course of its history, it’s …
Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu
“Somebody, Stop Me.” Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu (lit. “Angry Leader Bee Great Resurrection”) was developed in an incredibly short time span of around …
Operation Darkness
Metacritic, due to its out-of-context aggregation of review scores and summaries, is fairly misrepresentative. The meta-score for Operation Darkness, a strategy RPG for …
