All posts by John Sczepaniak

Disaster Report

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Disaster Report

For all the criticism the press raises about games not offering genuine choice, Kazuma Kujo, formerly of Irem now at Granzella,

Silpheed

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Silpheed

The Silpheed series consists of five distinct games which have very little connection to each other (plus a collection of mostly similar

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

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Kishin Douji Zenki

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

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Exile

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)

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Ghost in the Shell

Masamune Shirow, real name apparently Masanori Ota, needs little introduction. As the creative mind behind the phenomenally popular manga series of Appleseed (1985), Dominion:

Catrap

The original monochrome Game Boy is a mostly untapped source of obscure, overlooked and forgotten games, all with the potential

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

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