Fallout

Hallo en welkom op Torij 's Video Game beoordelingen. It's New Year's Eve, and what a crazy year it's been; we've had Final Fantasy, Katamari Damacy, Eternal Darkness, Spider-Man, Silent Hill, and Shadow of the Beast, and I thought what better way to cap off 2014 than a post-nuclear role playing game: the original Fallout.

Shadow of the Beast

gamarjoba da mivesalmebi ToriJ video t’amashis mimokhilva. Whew, we have a big one here today. Shadow of the Beast. And not even the good Shadow of the Beast, we're playing the Sega Genesis version. The Genesis port was notorious for being exceptionally bad due to increasing the default 50 Hz refresh rate to 60, because that was the standard for all Sega Genesis games in North America. So, the game became more difficult because it was running 16.7% faster than intended. Blast processing!

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Hello ar' creoso a' ToriJ's Video Game Reviews. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies comes out today! We're ending another movie trilogy, it's crazy! I can't think of any better way to honor the end of one trilogy, than by talking about the end of another. It's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Dragon Rage

ava'yorn vur aldoer ekess torij ui|ulph video nibel reviews. Feel the rage! Dragon rage, as we take on the role of Cael as he sets out to free the rest of the dragon race enslaved by orcs. A bunch of dragons being pushed around by orcs! How does that happen? Orcs are like these little ugly green things, and dragons are huge while breathing fire! What's that? They took away the element that granted them the power of fire? Who was guarding? They should have gotten Smaug to guard that, he would have made those orcs wet themselves. Long story short, we get a quick plot setup in the opening to give us an excuse to go around killing orcs, and kill orcs we shall!

San Francisco Rush Extreme Racing

Zdravstvuyte i dobro pozhalovat' v Video obzory igr ToriJ -kh godov. Okay, I'm officially declaring December, Funcember, because we have a lot of fun games lined up this month, and we're starting out with San Francisco Rush Extreme Racing! My first racing game since 2012. That's a long time to go without a single racing game. Why did I ever stop?

Morrowind

Hallo und herzlich willkommen ToriJ: Videospiele Bewertungen. Tori here, and today to cap off Thanksgaming Month we're looking at what many fans consider as the best Elder Scrolls game of all time, Morrowind!

Final Fantasy IV (Spoilers)

Warning: The following review contains spoilers. Reader's discretion is advised. 

Kon'nichiwa, ToriJ no bideogēmu no rebyū e yōkoso. We continue Thanksgaming Month with another fan favorite, Final Fantasy IV! Final Fantasy IV was originally released to the Super Nintendo in July 1991, and localized to the states four months later renumbered Final Fantasy II since we couldn't get our hands on FFII and FFIII at the time.

Super Mario Bros/Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Bonjour et bienvenue sur jeux vidéo Avis de ToriJ. Last year for Thanksgaming Month I decided to pit two of the greatest platformers of all time against each other, and this year I intend to continue the tradition with Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog 2!

Yars' Revenge

Hola y bienvenidos a Video Juego comentarios de ToriJ. It's that time of year where we stuff our faces and give thanks for what we have. A warm roof over our head, friends and family, good food, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Things of that nature. That's why I'm proud to bring to you the second annual Thanksgaming Month.

Silent Hill

Hello and welcome to ToriJ's Video Game Reviews. We're coming up on the last week of Halloween Month, and I thought we'd end on a high note by looking at another fan favorite in the survival horror genre. Silent Hill!

Resident Evil

Resident Evil is a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom in 1996. It is the first game in the Resident Evil franchise and paved the way for all survival horror games to come.

BioShock (Spoilers)

Warning: The following review contains spoilers. Reader's discretion is advised.

BioShock is a first-person shooter game developed and published by 2K Games and released on August of 2007. The game takes place in the 1960s in the underwater city of Rapture that player's character, Jack, ends up in after surviving an airplane crash. If it were me I'd be asking for a refund.

Luigi's Mansion

Luigi's Mansion is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube, and was a launch title for the system in 2001. The game of course stars Luigi, and takes place inside a haunted mansion where you must capture ghosts and rescue Luigi's older brother, Mario. Seems like when Mario isn't doing the rescuing he's getting himself kidnapped. Oh well, grab your proton packs – I mean, Poltergust 3000, and follow me. We have ghost busting to do.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is an action, role-playing, Platform-adventure, sidescroller developed and published by Konami, released for the Sony PlayStation in 1997. Since then it has been ported to the Sega Saturn, Tiger Handheld (Tiger Handheld? Who the hell would play this on Tiger Handheld?), PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade. Despite little commercial advertising, the game became a critical success and is considered by many fans to be the best in the series. So, let's start Halloween Month off right with Castlevania!

Final Fantasy XII (Spoilers)

Warning: The following review contains spoilers. Reader's discretion is advised.

Developed and published by Square Enix, Final Fantasy XII came to stores in Japan and North America in 2006 for the PlayStation 2, and along with it several new innovations that we'll get into in just a bit. The game stars Vaan, an orphan and resident of Rabanastre, who dreams of one day becoming a sky pirate. He finds himself in the middle of a conflict between the Archadian Empire and the Resistance. If at any time the game feels like Star Wars to you, it's not just you.

Darksiders II

Darksiders II is an action role-playing, hack and slash game developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ. It is the sequel to the 2010 game Darksiders and stars War's brother, Death. Death has rode off to restore humanity in order to free his brother who was blamed for prematurely starting the apocalypse in the previous game.

F.E.A.R. 3 (Spoilers)

Warning: The following review contains spoilers. Reader's discretion is advised.

F.E.A.R. 3 (or F.3.A.R., if you prefer) is a first-person shooter, psychological horror developed by Day 1 Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is the third installment of the F.E.A.R. franchise and picks up right where Project Origin left off.

DmC: Devil May Cry (Spoilers)

Warning: The following review contains spoilers. Reader's discretion is advised.

DmC: Devil May Cry is an action-adventure, hack and slash game developed by Ninja Theory and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft PC. DmC is the fifth game to be developed under the Devil May Cry banner and is a reboot of the popular franchise, taking away everything we've come to known and – well, most folks never got past Dante's hair.

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock is an Action/Adventure game based on the hit BBC television series of the same name developed by Supermassive Games and published by BBC Worldwide Digital Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and Microsoft PC. Supermassive Games are an independent studio working from Guildford in the south east of England on a variety of games since 2008.

Tomb Raider Reboot

Tomb Raider is an action-adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. It is a reboot of the popular Tomb Raider franchise that was released on March 5^th, 2013 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the PC. This marked the first Tomb Raider game to appear under the Square Enix banner after the company bought Eidos back in 2009 taking Crystal Dynamics with it.

The Walking Dead Season One (Spoilers)

Warning: The following review contains spoilers. Reader's discretion is advised.

“The Walking Dead” is an episodic interactive drama graphic adventure developed and published by Telltale Games. It is based on Robert Kirkman's “The Walking Dead” comic book series and has been published on anything and everything it can get its grubby little hands on, except Nintendo. I'm just going to say right now that I have never read the comic books and I have never watched the TV show. I will be reviewing the game on its own merits.

Infamous 2

Cole MacGrath returns to action in the 2011 sequel to Sucker Punch's “Infamous” franchise. If you haven't read my review of the first game you can do so here.

We start off with a recap of what happened in the last game, and immediately the first thing you will notice is that we have a different voice playing Cole. This time we have Eric Ladin, best known for his role as January Jones' brother in “Mad Men.” Sucker Punch brought him in because they felt they needed someone who could perform Cole's physical reactions while doing his voice to best utilize the new motion capture technology.

Infamous

“Infamous” is an action-adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. Sucker Punch was co-founded by former Microsoft employees in 1997 and went on to make the Sly Cooper series for the PlayStation 2. They are considered a part of Sony's “Platformer Trio,” alongside Naughty Dog and Insomniac Games. “Infamous” would be the company's first sandbox game featuring more realistic human characters than the animals they have worked with before.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is an action-adventure, stealth game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami. It is the fourth game under the Solid name, but sixth game in the Metal Gear franchise overall and was released as a PlayStation 3 exclusive on June 12, 2008 worldwide. As to be expected with pretty much anything Metal Gear related, it became both a commercial and critical success winning many Game of the Year awards for 2008 and today we take a closer look at the game that marked the end of an era. The end of Solid Snake.

Game of Thrones

“Game of Thrones” is an action RPG developed by Cyanide and published by Atlus for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. It is based off the first book, “A Game of Thrones” from the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series written by George R. R. Martin and the subsequent TV adaption on HBO. So, as it is based off one the most popular book and television series of all time, with perhaps one of the largest cast of characters of all time, who will we be playing as?

Deadpool

Deadpool is an action, beat em' up game developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision, based on the Marvel comic character of the same name. It was released in June for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the PC, and today we'll be looking at the PlayStation 3 version. If you like sanity in your games, well, you've come to the wrong place.

The Last of Us

“The Last of Us” is an action-adventure survival horror game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The game stars Joel, a survivor of the pandemic that took mankind by the balls, and Ellie, a fourteen-year-old orphan girl who grew up in the post-apocalyptic world that remains. Circumstances beyond both of their control have forced them together to survive the horrors that wait outside and the worst of humanity that remain alive. Without further ado, let's sink our teeth into “The Last of Us.”

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars is an RPG developed by Square Soft and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo in 1996. It is the only Mario game to be developed by Square as well as the first RPG to be made under the Mario banner. Mario must team up with friends and foes alike to take out a new threat: the Smithy Gang. The gang's leader has stolen the seven star pieces of Star Road and with it the world's wishes. It's up to Mario and co. to get them back so all your wishes can come true.

Secret of Evermore

Secret of Evermore is an action RPG developed and published by Square Soft (now known as Square Enix) for the Super Nintendo. It was released in North America on the first of October in 1995, and to PAL regions in February the following year. It stars a teenaged boy and his pet dog (both named by the player) who end up stuck in the world of Evermore and must work together if they wish to ever get home.

Magic Knight Rayearth

Magic Knight Rayearth is a RPG by Tomy for the Super Famicom based off the anime of the same name that was released in 1995. The game stars Hikaru Shidou, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji; ninth graders from Japan who get transported to the magical world of Cephiro. There they meet Clef, a master mage who sends them on the path to become the Magic Knights.

The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil is a vertical scrolling shoot em' up game developed and published by Team Shanghai Alice for the PC on August 11, 2002. It is the sixth game of the Touhou Project series and the first to be released on the PC. The game stars Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame, two little girls with a LOT of power.

Final Fantasy IX

Final Fantasy IX was released in the Summer of 2000 and localized to North America in November. It was the last game in the main number titles to be released for the Sony PlayStation and saw a return to the franchise's roots. We said goodbye to the steampunk and more modernized technology, and hello to the medieval fantasy of yesterday. So grab your pointy hat and blue coat and let's dive into Final Fantasy IX!

Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F

Hatsune Miku Project DIVA F is a rhythm game developed by Sega and is the fifth installment of the Hatsune Miku Project DIVA franchise. This is my first experience with Hatsune Miku so I can't compare it to any of the previous games, sorry.

Spider-Man 2 Enter: Electro

In honor of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 now playing in theaters I thought I'd take a look back on one of my favorite Spider-Man games, Spider-Man 2 Enter: Electro. Spider-Man 2 was released to the Sony PlayStation in 2001 and is the sequel to Spider-Man which came out the previous year. Unlike its predecessor, it was only made for the PlayStation. I can see why none of Sony's rivals would want it, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's dive in to Spider-Man 2!

Final Fantasy VII

In 1997 gamers saw the first major Final Fantasy title on the PlayStation. It was the end of an era as we said goodbye to the 16-bit graphics of the Super Nintendo and hello to full 3D models that, while considered dated by today's standards, were revolutionary for their time. It was a critical part of a lot of people's childhoods, introducing them not only to the franchise, but to the genre as a whole. The game saw so much success that it spanned a movie, an anime, numerous spin-offs games, prequels, books; -- an entire Compilation that's canon to everyone but the fans, and today we look at the game that started it all.

StarCraft II Wings of Liberty

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is the second game in the StarCraft franchise to be released by Blizzard, and hit shelves for both Windows PC and Mac users in July 2010. The game stars Jim Raynor, returning from the first game and its expansion Broodwars, as the leader of a revolutionary group to combat the Dominion that rules in the area. He's soon joined by an old friend and convict, Tychus Findlay, who just made bail with the price of having to wear a huge ass armor suit wherever he goes. A whole new ballgame begins to be played as Sarah Kerrigan, a hybrid with human and Zerg DNA, leads a new swarm of Zerg across the sector to finish what she started four years ago during the Brood Wars.

Assassin's Creed III

We return to the Animus to once again relive the memories of our ancestors, this time in the 18th Century around the time of the Revolutionary War. Quite frankly, I'm amazed Desmond is even able to walk straight after how many times he's gone in and out of that thing.

WWF Attitude

In 2012 I picked up WWF War Zone on WrestleMania week and posted the review the day after the Showcase of the Immortals. In 2013 I plan to continue the tradition by looking at its sequel, WWF Attitude.

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

We cap off Women's History Month with the second installment to The Longest Journey: Dreamfall. Dreamfall is an adventure game by Funcom that was released for Windows PC and Xbox in 2006 starring Zoe Castillo, Newport’s own, April Ryan, and Kian Alvane.

The Longest Journey

The Longest Journey is a point and click, adventure game that became available for Windows PC back in November 1999, and made a trip around the world during the time of the new millennium. Developed by Funcom and published by Entertainment Interactive. It stars April Ryan, a struggling young artist from the country who came to Newport to get away from her family and forget about her past. Set in the 23rd Century, only with less Starfleet and more police officers who try to sell you stuff while arresting you. The horror!

Bayonetta

Bayonetta is an action, hack and slash game developed by Platinum Games and Nex Entertainment and published by Sega for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It stars Bayonetta, a shapeshifting witch with as many spells as she has guns, and hair that would make Sindel envious.

Metroid Prime

We continue Women's History Month with another iconic female character that has been with us since the 1980's, Samus Aran from Nintendo's popular Metroid franchise. The above game is Metroid Prime, a first-person action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published for the Nintendo GameCube in 2002. It is the fifth installment in the Metroid franchise and the first game to make the transition into 3D, and man, oh man, did it get a lot of hate when it was first announced. From the decision to be a first-person view game to allowing an unproven Western developer to handle a Japanese title. However, it managed to endure all of that and became a critical and financial success spanning a series all its own. So, without further ado, let's dive into Metroid Prime!

Tomb Raider (Spoilers)

In an industry primarily dominated by men, few women have been featured as the main playable character in a lot of games that came out in the past. When you think about women characters in gaming there are two women that immediately pop into your mind, Lara Croft and Samus Aran. On Women's History Month, I wanted to dedicate it to looking at the video games that decided to take a chance with a female lead, and I could think of no better place to start than with the first name I just mentioned. Lara Croft's Tomb Raider!

Mass Effect (Spoilers)

Mass Effect is an action role-playing, third-person shooter by BioWare that was released in 2007. Since then it has become more openly available on the PC and PlayStation 3, spawned two sequels and is one of the most popular franchises to come out in the past decade. Today we'll be taking a look at where it all began with the original game for the Xbox 360.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survivor horror game developed by Frictional Games and published by THQ in North America through retail for Windows PC. It was released on September 2010 and came out to North America February the following year to critical acclaim success, and is considered one of, if not the greatest horror game ever made. So, allow me to curl up into a ball and cry as we dive into Amnesia.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is a survivor horror game developed by Silicon Knights and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It was released in the Summer of 2002 to worldwide critical acclaim, racked up to being worth one-hundred dollars brand new on Amazon, and found itself on a couple of Top 100 lists. It's the first Nintendo game I've looked at since Mario, so let's give it a whirl.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II is a role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Lucas Arts. It is the sequel of the popular Knights of the Old Republic coming out only one year later after its predecessor to both the Xbox and Windows PC. The game takes place five years after the events of the first game and this time you play as a former Jedi Knight who was exiled by the Jedi Order. Just like the first one I'll be looking at the PC version of the game.

Batman Arkham Origins

 

Batman: Arkham Origins is an action-adventure game developed and published by Warner Bros. Games and was released on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii-U, and Windows PC last year. It is the third installment in the Batman Arkham franchise and a prequel to Arkham Asylum and Arkham City.

Katamari Damacy

Moo! Katamari Damacy is a third-person, puzzle-action game developed by Namco and Now Production and published by the former. It was released for the PlayStation 2 in March 2004 in Japan and came over to the states in September. The game saw surprise demand from retailers who only ordered a few copies of the game. It's considered one of the strangest and most original titles for the PlayStation 2, and it doesn't take much to see why. So, without further ado, let's dive into Katamari Damacy!

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Dust: An Elysian Tail is an action role-playing game available for download on Xbox Live Arcade, and Steam. It stars Dust, a young adventurer who has loss his memories and is greeted by a talking sword named the Blade of Ahrah, and his guardian, Fidget, whom travels alongside you while you try to battle your amnesia, possessing the ability to tear down the fourth wall. I'll be looking at the PC version today.

Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII is a role-playing game developed and published by Square, better known back in those days as Square Soft, in 1999. It is the eighth installment in the Final Fantasy franchise back when it was a brand name and didn't have all the worlds connected to each other, available on the Sony PlayStation and Windows PC, and is now available for purchase on Steam. Starring gunblade specialist, Squall Leonhart, a student at Balamb Garden Military Academy who is just about to take his SeeD (special forces that work for Garden) exam to become an honorably member of SeeD.