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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link – NES
Wow! This game is tough! Come play Zelda II: The Adventure of Link with me! When I die, it’s your turn, okay? I promise you’ll love it and hate it at the same time… Mostly love.
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Final Fantasy III – NES
Final Fantasy III may be one of the hardest in the series, but it’s also one of the most underrated. The plot twists, music, and battle system make for a wholly enjoyable experience despite its many difficult moments.
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Final Fantasy II – NES
Final Fantasy II deserves credit for having to follow in the footsteps of a giant. The developers tried new things to keep it fresh, but the effort resulted in frustrating gameplay that overshadows the game’s more enjoyable moments. If you’re a fan of the franchise, give it a shot.
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Fire Emblem: Awakening – Nintendo 3DS
Need a gateway game into the Fire Emblem series and tactical RPGs in general? Well Fire Emblem: Awakening is a really beginner-friendly title that helped the Doc start her adventure into the strategical genre.
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Pokemon Alpha Sapphire – Nintendo 3DS
Get out your Pokeballs, Trainer! An exciting journey awaits you! NB writer Sarus Vakarian reviews the most recent installment of the Pokemon games: Pokemon: Alpha Sapphire! It’s every great thing you remember about the original with so much more to enjoy!
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Diablo – PC
If you’ve played anything from Baldur’s Gate all the way up to the Borderlands series, you’re playing games that owe much of their existence to the genre standards introduced by Blizzard’s Diablo back in 1996. When it was released, it redefined the way we look at western-style action RPGs, and its impact is still felt today. Join me as I delve into the desecrated church once more to remind us of this timeless classic’s true power!
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Final Fantasy: All The Bravest – iOS
Final Fantasy All The Bravest scores points on the nostalgia scale for combining the characters, monsters and music from the first 13 Final Fantasies, but the price for full enjoyment can be pretty steep. Depending on your mindset the simplistic gameplay can range from insultingly easy to refreshingly basic.
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Suikoden II – PlayStation
Massive JRPG fan and NB contributor Rhutsczar jumps head first into the classic Suikoden franchise, starting off with Suikoden II. Can you join Riou in reuniting Highland and Jowston? Or are you just here to tag along and collect the 108 Stars of Destiny? We invested hours of enjoyment in this classic and you should too. Chili Cook Off anyone?
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Shadowrun – Sega Genesis
Shadowrun uses some good graphics and a good story to reel in its player. Make wise choices though as you could be forever entwined in a battle to make your character strong enough to proceed through the halfway decent plot. Some cool guns, and some cool bad guys should keep you entertained enough to fulfill your enjoyment hole, at least long enough to get away from doing some chores!
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Bill and Ted’s Excellent Video Game Adventure – NES
What is it with great movies and bad Nintendo ports? Brought to us by LJN, no less. Like Beetlejuice, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is a movie that came out in 1988- scratch that, ’89. Damn, I was on to something here. Anyway, the first Bill and Ted movie was awesome. Highly quotable, fun story, and with enough self-aware cheese to keep you entertained all the way through. Then in 1991, just as we were insulted by LJN with their port of Beetlejuice, we got another winner with Bill and Ted’s Excellent Video Game Adventure. But here’s the question: Could it get any worse than the Beetlejuice game? Well, why don’t we come along with ZB and take a close look at Bill and Ted’s Excellent Video Game Adventure for the Nintendo Entertainment System and see if we can come to a conclusion on the matter at hand?
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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 – PS2
Sometimes, you can pinpoint the moment when you realized that your favorite console was going to be phased out. For me, it was the terrible port of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. With gamebreaking bugs shipped in the box and corners cut wherever the developers could get away with it, it was the moment when I realized the PS2 was no longer worth every company’s best efforts to program for. Witness this harrowing recollection of loss and heartbreak in the spirit of April’s Foolish Games!
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Minutequest – Android
Although most mobile games tend to be simpler and more addictive than their console breatheren, Minutequest is a fantastic example of a role-playing game stripped down to its simplest, done well.
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Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall – PC
Nerd Bacon newcomer Doc Croc reviews The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, a PC title released during the gaming’s renaissance in 1996, to explain why this game from the extremely popular Elder Scrolls series deserves more respect and should be tried at least once.
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Terranigma – SNES
So, it’s Retrouary, and student 20 finally offers up a review. This time, it’s for Terranigma, the third (and possibly best) of Quintet’s Gaia series, and the only one that was never brought to North American shores. Is it good? Yeah. Is it revolutionary? Oh, heck no. studetn 20 thinks of it as Secret of Mana light…
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