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Archive for December, 2006

Of Vampires, Mages and Turn-based Shenanigans

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

… or, more to the point, Negima Volume 2 LE (with a chibi Evangeline figurine, no less), Tsukuyomi (Moonphase) Volume 1 (with a rather fetching series artbox) and last, but not least, Grandia (NTSC-U/C) for the PlayStation.
Tsukuyomi is certainly a very professional release: a nice artbox, great looking DVD cover, well presented disc, 5 postcards [...]

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Saturn Retro Love

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

A nice little parcel arrived from Play-Asia the other day containing some old-fashioned Saturn goodness. Puyo Puyo Sun and Grandia Digital Museum were the games, along with an Action Replay Plus (so that they’d actually play on my PAL Saturn.)
I picked up Puyo Puyo Sun because it’s one of my three favorite puzzle games ever [...]

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Ah, sweet nostalgia

Friday, December 1st, 2006

All this talk of the Wii Virtual Console having PC Engine (Turbografx16) games available for it has made me tremendously nostalgic for the old beast. Thankfully, due to the wonders of emulation, games for this lost and lamented console have been accessible for some time now. Below are a couple of favorites, Galaga ‘90 and [...]

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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Ep 4-7 Impressions

Friday, December 1st, 2006

I’ll do full summaries for the episodes at some stage (probably) but I just wanted to note down some impressions after watching through these 4 episodes in a row. Man, some interesting stuff is going on in this series. First off, just as I was settling in for a long running storyline, episode 4 ends [...]

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