It’s a PS3-only title. Resident Evil 2 is the same.

It’s an early PS1 release, and something people are genuinely nostalgic for. It’s not a good game by any means, but I’m glad it’s being preserved.

That title is available on PSN for PS3, at least in the UK. No handheld emulation though.

No, I think the Parappa games and UmJammer Lammy are terrible. Hideous art, crappy music and incoherent gameplay. Each game is crap at explaining its own systems, and they just end up baffling rather than entertaining.

Great article! I think it highlights a pretty important point about the medium of video games; namely, that most people simply don’t respect them as cultural artefacts, or something worth preserving for the future. A game’s worth is so often tied to things like graphical fidelity or how it pushes its platform from a…

Oh, he wanted to ditch the story? The thing that makes Paper Mario games worth playing? Yeah, I’m sorry, but that’s one of the stupidest choices I’ve ever heard of.

I find it kind of ironic that Miyamoto is dismissing the concept of story in games when he was the first guy to introduce it to the medium in the first place.

The game’s supposed train wreck of a plot and characters like Cindy are really putting me off trying it... because if you’re going to go on an epic journey, I feel we have to demand more from the product as consumers and not shrug off crap storytelling as something that just comes with the territory. Final Fantasy exce…

This is everything I ever wanted from a Lego game. However, I do have a couple of thoughts.

Easter egg! The witch in the pamphlet is from Lego’s Collectible Minifigures range.

Hey, Gex will never die! Even if the third game is basically Furry Fetish: The Game by today’s standards.

I don’t know much about her, but she strikes me as a fascinating person. If you’re going to be defined by one acting role, Princess Leia is a great one; fierce, intelligent and (the odd bikini enslavement aside) largely her own woman. A lot of that seems be coming across outside the role as well.

Speaking as a denizen of the UK (who gifted the world the deep fried Mars bar) American food so often looks like... an acquired taste. I’m guessing this TV dinner is hardly the baseline, however.

I’m actually from the UK, so I don’t have a horse in this particular race. It’s not like our government is any better, though.

Yeah, I don’t think you can call an economic boom a victory if you’ve had to alienate and stigmatise half your country’s minorities in order to achieve it.

Sonic Colours on DS is a pretty good game, in my view.

GOT PLACES TO GO, GOT TO FOLLOW MY RAINBOW

I want that Doraemon box.

Ultimately, I believe this issue isn’t complicated; at its core Pokemon is a compelling game but a poor vehicle for honest storytelling... because storytelling as we typically understand it is not what games of Pokemon’s era set out to do. They wanted to create an interesting battle system and layer a cutesy aesthetic…

Wait, so is that explicitly established in the context of the games? If so, where, and how often? Also, if Pokemon want to be captured, why do they try and break out of the balls, and attack you? Why does Abra teleport away at the slightest provocation?