Way too many games for just one person to absorb, but I got to play a few titles on the show floor.

There and Back Again, a Gamer’s Holiday. CAUTION: The following regalement is lengthy and does not contain any actual reviews or criticism of games. Recommended reading in multiple sittings.

The roster is excellent and it’s a masterfully crafted fighting game, but is there any reason for you to buy it?

It’s pretty much MadWorld, but with guns and generic graphics.

So what makes for a good horror game, and how would I go about making one?

Only beat the first chapter and already there’s plenty of goodness to go around

Sometimes I feel really pretentious. Then someone else comes around and makes me feel all kinds of better about myself!

A game that takes from so many familiar sources, and yet feels like none of them.

I think it’s about time I turn off the hate machine and just accept that Squenix will make games I do and do not like.

Of all the things Nier does right, there are two that it just does incredibly wrong.