The mixed bowl of franchise soup that is Fabula Nova Crystallis started out convoluted and only got more so as time passed. The initial game, Final Fantasy XIII, went on to become a trilogy in its own right, while Final…
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There are a lot of great 3D fighting games out there, but only the first three Virtua Fighter games have claimed their place in the Smithsonian. Here’s 15 Minutes of arguably the best of the three, Virtua Fighter 2.
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For what it’s worth, Square couldn’t have picked a better slice of the game to serve up as the demo to bundle in with Brave Fencer Musashi a year before Final Fantasy VIII’s proper release.
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In which I show what a pain OCD truly is when dealing with a game of FFVIII’s unusual progression methods. Coming up on the five-hour mark, and not a foot has been set on Dollet.
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When Sega formed a new racing team to bring their catalog of arcade racing legends out of mothballs, Sega Rally 3 made a great first impression. Sega Rally Revo, not so much. The latter was so poorly-received that the new…
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Before Keiji Inafune and Capcom went their seperate ways with about the same degree of turbulence as the Dave Mustaine/Metallica split, they brought forth a renaissance in the Mega Man franchise. We reminisce on better times with 15 Minutes of…
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I shift gears, moving away from Suikoden in order to turn my discontent toward one of my favorite targets from over the years: Final Fantasy VIII. How can this not be good?
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I play through the Lepant recruitment story and wrap up my thoughts on the early Suikoden games, as well as why their simple gameplay rubs me the wrong way.
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The character action genre is largely considered to be the genre form of Capcom’s Devil May Cry. During the genre’s formative years, however, Sega’s Overworks studio had a different idea of how it should work. Check out Shinobi’s 15 Minutes…
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19 Feb 2015
Nihon Falcom’s profile has skyrocketed on this side of the Pacific in recent years, with the Ys series in full resurgence and the Trails in the Sky brand finally making The Legend of Heroes a household name. Meanwhile, Brandish is…
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I continue through Suikoden, helping myself to a heaping dose of EXP in my new digs even before properly settling in.
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Although it was eventually caught up in the undertow of bigger-name titles on the Nintendo 64, Wave Race 64 remains an important and very fun game for the system to this day. Our 15-minute highlight was actually a big gaming…
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