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Might & Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer, a Playthrough Report
It’s been too long since I’ve taken another stab at one of my many love/hate relationships; this time arguably the last good installment in New World Computing’s Might & Magic genre: Might & Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer, or simply shortened as MM8.
Castlevania: The (Terrible) Adventure
In 1989, The Nintendo’s handheld Game Boy made its debut in Japan, suddenly creating a demand for bite-sized adventures that could work on the go.
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
After the giant failure of Castlevania: The Adventure, Konami still had the guts to continue its handheld Castlevania line in 1991, by going back to the drawing board and fixing nany of The Adventure’s shortcomings.
Tactics Ogre: A Reborn SNES Masterpiece
What if you take an obscure 1995 SNES strategy RPG, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together originally developed by Quest, and remaster it for the PSP?
Albion: An Exotic Hodgepodge Soup of RPG Styles
For December’s Dos Game Club playthrough, we played Albion, a 1995 CD-ROM RPG from German studio Blue Byte you might know better from the superb Settlers series.

15/03/2007

Platform games, one of the most dominant game genres in gaming history. They spawned a whole lot of spin-off series (run-and-gun, platform puzzles, …