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Shooting & Polygons

Sin&Punishment: Successor of the Earth (N64 via Wii VC)
2004 Nintendo/Treasure
The Short Version: It’s kind of like a 3-D Gunstar Heroes, only Treasure is trying to be DARK this time. If you like shooting virtual bugs and don’t get motion sick, this is your game!
The Long Version:

Confession:

I downloaded and played a good chunk of The World Ends With You on an M3 card- however, as I liked it and it is easily available domestically, I later went out and bought the physical cartridge!
It kind of makes me feel like less of a filthy pirate and more like a modern-day gamer Robin [...]

The Advantage of Blog Format (plus stuff about games)

So, as I often do, I wrote my feature on The World Ends With You a bit prematurely. I still stand by most of it, though I like it quite a bit more overall now that I’ve gone from ‘used to’ the mechanics of it to ‘ensnared hopelessly.’ It’s been a while since I’ve run [...]

Nope. None left.

Just checking in to shoot the shangola and deliver another status report as such. Halfway through No More Heroes now, which I have to say is a game that has the common decency to be totally clear as to how the hell long it’s going to take you. Having beaten #6 and watching gawky loser [...]

Immersion Therapy

My dad seems way too amused by the title to the World Ends With You Review (as he read it over my shoulder) and I haven’t the heart to give up the joke, as dumb and easily-missed as it might be (Sounds like a Bond film!) I figured I oughta catch up on my impromptu [...]