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Nerd Cred- Threatened!

What’s the deal with FFTA-2 displaying elemental weaknesses in words rather than numbers!? It’s in blatant disregard of how long we’ve been trained to think about Final Fantasy stats in numbers, rather than outright saying a monster takes double damage from a certain element but absorbs another!
From what little I’m through in it it seems [...]

Oh, yeah. He told me to tell you I told you so.

Parish just emailed me about the old Izuna review, wherein I said:
If only Izuna had a tag-team function to let you swap spunky ninja girls on the fly.
Well, I meant to say something sooner but it kept slipping my mind, but apparently Izuna 2 does just that! Where’s my check, Success…?

Yellow Hal.

Air Fortress (NES)
HAL Labs (Their minds are going.)
The Short Version: Remember how cool that escape sequence from Metroid was? What if we made a game that did that eight times with sluggish controls and a hero with none of the perks and upgrades who loses health steadily from any sort of strenuous activity like walking? [...]

Face & Erase

Man, it’s been way longer than I intended between postings. Stupid life! I was supposed to write about Air Fortress weeks ago. But between my personal life, my addiction to The World Ends With You, and preparing to move out- yes, that’s right- I’ve been too distracted. That and work continuing to become more frustrating [...]

Game Over, Bug Hunt, Whatev.

You know, getting one last extra day of vacation time to laze about and attempt to finish up TWEWY only makes going back to the lab harder… I WILL OVERCOOOOME~