FOR THE FEW WHO HAVEN’T heard, spoilers ahead. The story of the seventh Final Fantasy begins in 1994. Almost immediately after the release of Final Fantasy VI, Square commenced development on its follow-up, originally...
You wake up on a stone slab in the middle of a cavernous mortuary, you have no memory of how you got there or even your own identity. The first thing you see is...
THIS year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 for short) was a strange one, and not necessarily in a good way. All the press conferences were slick, well presented and lacked that distinct ‘WTF’ factor of...
Earlier in the year, it was clear that the fate of IO Interactive (the developers of the Hitman games, Kane & Lynch, Freedom Fighters and Mini Ninjas) was very unclear. Square Enix, their publisher, weren’t happy with the sales...
MERCIFULLY, this is the last time I’ll need to preface these things with the circumstance of localisation. Final Fantasy VI was not released in its original form in Europe, so I played the American SNES release...
Earlier today, CD Projekt Red (the developers of the sublime Witcher trilogy) posted an open letter: This isn’t the first software ‘hostage situation’ instigated by hackers (‘Orange is the New Black’ and several films have suffered...
As of today, Nintendo released pictures of their new Splatoon 2 style headphones for the Nintendo Switch. Why is this newsworthy? Well, quite simply, it is the first time we get to see how the...
SINCE Final Fantasy V was – inexplicably – never released in the West in its original form, I relied on the Super Famicom version via RPGe’s groundbreaking (and very good) fan translation. The Anthology version...
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog, I went on a decades long revenge fuelled killing spree that left me an empty husk of a man when it ended. The Call of Juarez...
IN KEEPING with my arbitrary commitment to play the original versions of these games, I went through the Super Famicom version with the unofficial J2E fan translation. There are about seven different versions of...
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