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Dissidia Again For The First Time

Dissidia 012 [duodecim] Final Fantasy (PSP)
aka: Dissidia 012 ~my pure heart for a you~
aka: Dissidia 2
: The Reckoning
aka: Doki Doki Panic
2011 Squeenix

The Short Version: The other, other Final Fantasy fighting game.

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Metal to the Core

 

Uh, spoilers.

Armored Core 3 Portable (PSP)
2009 FROM Software

The Short Version- Remember what I said about Last Raven Portable? I don’t take it back, it turns out that game is just dickishly hard. AC3 is a much more reasonable/satisfying game.

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StarFox: The ‘Other’ Nintendo Series-Part 2

 

DO A whatever.

PART II- THE UNREPENTANTLY GOOD ONE

It probably didn’t bode well that the very first time Nintendo tried to follow up StarFox, it resulted in an aborted project. Luckily, things picked up with the second StarFox game to see actual release. StarFox 64 is basically the reason I got a Nintendo 64 in the first place (though in the end, the only game I actually owned was San Francisco Rush) after playing loads of it at friends houses and lots of re-rentals.

Not even a Nintendo Power promo video could dampen my enthusiasm.

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I Probably Already Used ‘War in the Pocket’ to Title a Post on a Mech Game

Armored Core: Last Raven Portable (PSP)
From: From Software

The Short Version: A chilling look at economic development and its impact on endangered species.

The Long Version: Not that at all. More »