ABOUT TIME. As long as I have been using iPhones (and that was from around the second generation of the thing, as far as I can remember), I have actively wished for a Harvest Moon to hit the App Store, believing that it would be the perfect game for the platform.…
Read MoreThe PSP was a beast of a console. As with its successor, the PlayStation Vita, the PSP went through its life being quite under appreciated (and unsupported) in the west (and by western developers), but the Japanese loved it, so the Japanese developers used it as an opportunity to cheaply…
Read MoreAs I booted up Story of Seasons for the first time, I was greeted with a couple sentences that outlined the developers’ desire for players to appreciate farm life and respect nature as a whole. A message that succinct couldn’t reasonably articulate an impactful environmental message, regrettably, but perhaps that…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Harvest Moon 3D: The Lost Valley bears the namesake and logo of the prolific Marvelous-developed farming simulators, but this new game ought to be singled out as something very different. Without delving too deeply into legal shenanigans, the aforementioned creative minds behind the bulk of the…
Read MoreList by Jim S. Every month has big releases, but it only makes sense that in the Halloween month that they would look so good that it is frightening. Nintendo in particular gets to make a strong showing. Do not take that to mean that other consoles are getting neglected…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Game Theory is a regular column in which I take the opportunity to take a truly great game, and discuss some of its more philosophical underpinnings which are, to my mind, what truly separates these games from their peers. This week we’re talking about the likes…
Read MoreEveryone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so each week we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste in the world and this…
Read MoreOf all the Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles that we’ve seen released on the Nintendo 3DS to date, Harvest Moon is the one I have been looking forward to the most (well, that and the Final Fantasy Legends trilogy… Get to work Square Enix). Why? Because this is…
Read MoreThere is a killer piece over at Destructoid today that backs up a truism that pundits often seem to forget; playing games – even loving them – does not always entitle fans to know what is a good game. The brief Destructoid piece highlights some commentary from a Marvellous executive,…
Read MoreEveryone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so each week we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste in the world and this…
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