Nausicaä: Kiki Ippatsu
The 1984 animated filn Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was based on a series of manga penned by Hayao Miyazaki, …
Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä
The Japanese name is the same as the theatrical release, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the title screen however simply …
Wasureji no Nausicaä Game
If the PC-6001 Nausicaä game could be criticized for its simplicity, then the MSX release suffers from being too complicated. …
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 …
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 …
XZR: Hakai no Gouzou
Telenet’s XZR series is wild. It mixes religious historical figures and iconography, along with prolific drug-taking and a crazy storyline that sees …
Ghost in the Shell (PS1)
Masamune Shirow, real name apparently Masanori Ota, needs little introduction. As the creative mind behind the phenomenally popular manga series of Appleseed (1985), Dominion: …
Onore no Shinzuru Michi wo Yuke
Published in 2009 by From Software, having been developed by Silicon Studio, Onore no Shinzuru Michi wo Yuke is in fact a massively …
SeaQuest DSV
SeaQuest DSV was a sci-fi TV series from 1993 which ran for just three seasons in as many years, totaling 59 …
Wonder Project J2
The second Wonder Project came out on the N64, roughly two years after the first game. It was developed by the same …
Huang Di: Zhuolu zhi Zhan
The world of East Asian video games is a fascinating and mysterious one. When you examine mainland China, Taiwan and …