Yoshinori Kitase, producer for Square-Enix, said the company would remake Final Fantasy VII if the project could be completed within a year, but he estimates it would take over a decade. That’s because he assumes a potential FFVII remake would incorporate the same level of graphical detail as Final Fantasy XIII, which took three and [...]
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February 2, 2010
Every day the same dream
Thanks to a great movie from the early ’90s, we now associate the annual tradition of Groundhog Day with time loops rather than the prediction of more or less cold weather. This association has managed to find its way into video games over the years as both unique gameplay mechanics and shallow gimmicks.
Majora’s Mask seems [...]
January 11, 2010
Praise the Psyche Locks, Damn the Bonus Case
Today, Capcom has made available the first of its WiiWare ports of the Ace Attorney series. Aside from added motion controls, the games will be relatively unchanged except for today’s release, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, which is missing its fifth bonus case, a feature added during its original port from the GBA to the DS. [...]
December 29, 2009
Trouble with “Game of the Year”
I’ve said before that Professor Layton and the Curious Village was the best game of 2008, but that’s obviously my opinion, especially when you consider heavyweights like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Grand Theft Auto IV were also released that year. While big sites were debating over which of the big games deserved their big [...]
December 19, 2009
[2009] Muramasa: The Demon Blade
The developers behind games like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Final Fantasy XIII must have contemplated suicide when they discovered that perhaps the best looking game of all time, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, is exclusive to the Wii. Perhaps the only thing that saved their lives was the fact that Muramasa’s graphical style and placement [...]
December 19, 2009
[2009] Wii Sports Resort & Wii MotionPlus
I can play through a good sixty-dollar game in a couple of weeks (or even a couple of days), never play it again and be content because it offered a satisfying experience. I can also play a game with good online multiplayer for months and feel that it was time and money well spent. Unfortunately, [...]
December 19, 2009
[2009] Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Believe or not, Professor Layton and the Curious Village was the best game of 2008. In the year of AAA fourths (Grand Theft Auto 4, Metal Gear Solid 4, Devil May Cry 4, Soul Calibur IV, etc.), Curious Village introduced DS-owners to a delightful new IP made for everyone, starring the genteel professor and his [...]
December 19, 2009
[2009] UFC 2009 Undisputed VS Street Fighter IV
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has grown over the years from its humble roots as an obscure, misunderstood sport to an impressive technical showcase. UFC video games have also grown over the years, and like the sport itself, developers have gone from misunderstanding how to portray mixed martial arts in video games to creating a technically [...]
