Tag Archives: rpg

Nov
03
2009

Half-Minute Hero

It’s a strange game that relies heavily on feelings of nostalgia while providing gameplay that is as far removed from the source of that nostalgia as possible. Half-Minute Hero, developed by Marvelous Entertainment and published by Atlus’ long-lost publisher twin XSEED, is that strange game. It is very blatantly riffing on the era of 8-bit [...]

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Oct
09
2009

Soul Diary, Souls 4-20

[This post, the last of my Soul Diary, contains spoilers for the first two sections of the first world of Demon's Souls]
Life Two, Soul Four
After my triumph against the Phalanx, I had some dough (souls) to spend. The one thing that sounded particularly appealing to me is upgrading my luck to increase the frequency and [...]

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Oct
08
2009

Soul Diary, Soul 4

[This post contains spoilers for the first two sections of the first world of Demon's Souls]
Life One, Soul Four
After failing to properly heed the advice of the dead guy I watched fall off a narrow path and falling to the same fate mere moments later, my fourth soul respawned at the beginning of the world. [...]

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Oct
07
2009

Soul Diary, Souls 1-3

[This post contains spoilers for the tutorial and first section of the first world of Demon's Souls]
This face was the face of my introduction to Demon’s Souls. Then I made him normal again and we got on well.
Life One, Soul One
I took my more normal character and walked through the tutorial, adhering to the various [...]

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Nov
03
2008

Mechanics 5: Vault-Tech Assisted Targeting System (V.A.T.S.)

With the development of Fallout 3, Bethesda Softworks faced a dilemma: they had to make a first-person RPG engine that was typically used for high-fantasy RPG/adventure games handle the intensity, gore, and statistical probability of the gunplay in Black Isle’s cult-legend Fallout and Fallout 2 in such a way as to not annoy either first-person [...]

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