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Blaster Master Overdrive

Blaster Master Overdrive

Posted on February 9, 2010 in: Reviews, WiiWare

Blaster Master Overdrive is the first new entry in the Blaster Master series in quite a while. The latest was a PSX game called Blaster Master: Blasting again, which most fans have wiped from memory. The original Blaster Master was a port of a Japanese title “MetaFight” and featured the main character Jimmy who goes [...]

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Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth

Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth

Posted on December 28, 2009 in: Reviews, WiiWare

Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth is a remake of the original gameboy game “The Castlevania Adventure”. The plot has stayed the same, but game play and level design is completely different.
Castlevania games, for the unaware, are a series of side scrolling platformers, where members of the Belmont clan battle through Dracula’s castle and defeat him. The [...]

Excitebike: World Rally. The retro racer returns on wiiware.

Excitebike: World Rally. The retro racer returns on wiiware.

Posted on December 9, 2009 in: Reviews, WiiWare

Excitebike World Rally is 3rd excitebike game, following the much loved original NES title, and the Excitebike 64 sequel. The game plays nearly identical to the original title.
Game play contains the player controlling dirt bike and racing to the end of the course. Each course has 4 tracks that can be switched between to [...]

Contra Rebirth

Contra Rebirth

Posted on September 11, 2009 in: Reviews, WiiWare

I think nearly every NES gamer has fond memories of Contra. It was a series of incredibly fun 2d run and gun games. Contra was known for its difficulty and its 2 player co-op gameplay. The games features two soldiers fighting off an invading alien force and had 3 NES games, followed by Genesis and [...]

FF4: TAY – The Blue Planet That Was

FF4: TAY – The Blue Planet That Was

Posted on September 10, 2009 in: Reviews, WiiWare

The Lunarian’s Tale: The Blue Planet That Was is the 7th and is the last 300 point downloadable tale before the big 800 point conclusion.
This episode follows Golbez and Fusoya journey on the moon’s surface as they begin to realize something is going wrong and that the moon has returned to the planet. A lot [...]

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Tales of Monkey Island Episode 1 or 20% of Monkey Island 5

Tales of Monkey Island Episode 1 or 20% of Monkey Island 5

Posted on July 29, 2009 in: WiiWare

Tales from Monkey Island Episode 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwha is the latest in the series of sequels to old Lucas Arts Adventure games from Tell Tale games. The first being Sam and Max, and hopefully Maniac Mansion and Full Throttle will follow. Tell Tale also made the 5-part Strongbad’s Cool Game for Attractive [...]

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles My life as a Darklord. From sim to tower defense.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles My life as a Darklord. From sim to tower defense.

Posted on July 21, 2009 in: WiiWare

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord picks up directly where My Life as a King left off. You play Mira, the daughter of the darklord from the previous game. Following the events of the last game monsters no longer freely roam the land. This is unacceptable for Mira who decides to strike [...]

Final Fantasy 4 The After Years – Palom’s Tale (Episode 3 of 9)

Final Fantasy 4 The After Years – Palom’s Tale (Episode 3 of 9)

Posted on July 21, 2009 in: WiiWare

At this point you pretty much know whether or not you’re going to get these episodes so I’ll just run through the specifics of this one. If you’re still just curious about this game read the review for the main game Final Fantasy 4 The After Years.
As the name suggest this downloadable episode features Palom, [...]

Final Fantasy 4 The After Years: Episode 2 Yangs Tale

Final Fantasy 4 The After Years: Episode 2 Yangs Tale

Posted on July 16, 2009 in: WiiWare

It’s been over a month since Final Fantasy 4: The After Years and its first downloadable episode (of 9), Rydia’s Tale, launched. Now suddenly we’re bombarded with 3 more downloadable episodes, the first of which is Yang’s Tale.
Yang was the monk from FF4 known for his kick technique which allowed him to do minor damage [...]

First in a sub series of a sub series: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King

First in a sub series of a sub series: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King

Posted on July 11, 2009 in: WiiWare

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has pretty much become the brand for anything that Square feels is a bit too experimental to be Final Fantasy, but knows they’ll sell 10 times as many copies if it’s called Final Fantasy. The “My Life as a …” series starts with this game, and continues with the upcoming “My [...]

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Blaster Master Overdrive
Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth
Contra Rebirth
Excitebike: World Rally
Final Fantasy 4 The After Years - Palom's Tale
Final Fantasy 4 The After Years: Yangs Tale
Final Fantasy 4: The After Years
Final Fantasy 4: The After Years: Rydia's Tale
Final Fantasy 4: The After Years: The Lunarian's Tale
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - My life as a Darklord
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
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Tales from Monkey Island Episode 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwha