DS

Anno 1701

Published on: 4th May, 2009

Efforts to bring the PC’s brand of Civilization style strategy games to the Nintendo DS haven’t always yielded positive results. Age of Empires was decent, but they made it turn-based. Sim City had features cut. So did The Settlers, and it was a buggy mess on top of that. For once, wouldn’t it be nice [...]

The Legend of Kage 2

Published on: 26th April, 2009

If you were born in the eighties (or later), it’s possible you’ve never heard of the original Legend of Kage. It hit the arcades in the mid-eighties and then moved on to the NES a few years later. Although a shallow side-scrolling action game with only four “real” levels (they just repeated with different seasons [...]

SpongeBob SquarePants Edition

Published on: 26th April, 2009

SpongeBob and Patrick may chatter and chirp out exposition between levels, but the real bones of the plot are filled in not with words but with your stylus. In our Drawn to Life universe, Patrick revives Hitler by stitching his severed head to the body of an octopus. Thus, the newly christened Hitlerpus, an angry, [...]

Chrono Trigger

Published on: 25th April, 2009

Years before powerful Japanese RPG-smiths Square and Enix merged, the minds behind Enix’s Dragon Quest and Square’s Final Fantasy came together to create a dream project that would allow them to experiment in ways their established franchises wouldn’t. The resulting game took the Super NES as far as it could go, technically speaking, and it [...]

Dragon Ball: Origins

Published on: 25th April, 2009

If you watch Dragon Ball Z long enough, with everyone constantly bursting into flame and growling about power levels and blasting one another though mountains, it’s easy to forget that things weren’t always quite so angst ridden and punchy. In fact, there was a time when the Dragon Ball series (notice there’s no Z) was [...]

Bleach: Dark Souls

Published on: 25th April, 2009

How did this sneak up on us? We dig the Bleach anime series and manga, and we knew that Bleach: Dark Souls was developed by the incomparable Japanese coding house Treasure, just like last year’s impressive DS fighter, Bleach: The Blade of Fate. Yet, we were still caught off guard when we popped this cartridge [...]

Phineas and Ferb DS

Published on: 23rd April, 2009

Phineas and Ferb

Bomberman 2

Published on: 17th April, 2009

Puzzle games don’t come much faster or more fiendishly addictive than Bomberman. The little fella might have been around so long he should be ready to join the pension queue, right behind Mega Man, but if Hudson keeps making games as good as Bomberman 2, we’re not going to argue it’s time for him to [...]

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Published on: 17th April, 2009

If you’re reading this, you probably know that the brilliance of Puzzle Quest lies in the beautiful matrimony between casual and hardcore. The original PQ took a casual puzzle concept (Bejeweled) and legitimized it with plenty of hardcore RPG elements like intense battles, character leveling and engrossing story. Puzzle Quest: Galactrix continues this noble pursuit [...]

XG Blast!

Published on: 17th April, 2009

Pew pew pew go the space lasers. Boom boom boom go the enemies. Wobble wobble wobble goes the fluctuating deep space background. Grow grow grow goes the score multiplier. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. XG Blast! is to Geometry Wars what Pepsi is to Coke: one came first and wowed the world [...]

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