Category Archives: Xbox 360

Halo Month, Part 2

Halo Month continues, with wrapping up Halo 2 and reading the “Halo Graphic Novel” and “Halo: Ghosts of Onyx” before playing Halo 3, then continuing to the books “Halo: Contact Harvest” and “Halo: The Cole Protocol” and Halo Wars. The … Continue reading

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On Backwards Compatibility 

As a person with poor impulse control and a love of shiny things, I usually wind up owning every games console from a given time span, often a couple of them because of hardware revisions or the like. It’s expensive … Continue reading

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Begun, The Turf Wars Have

To celebrate, Inkopolis Plaza got a new coat of, um.  Paint?  Ink? It looks pretty, anyway.  I’m not much for the Splatfest battle music, but a change of pace never hurt. After a dozen or so matches, I’m up to … Continue reading

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EDF! EDF! EDF!

Earth Defense Force 2017, the first game in the series to grace American shelves, was a bit of an impulse buy.  I picked it up because my wife had heard good things about it and it was, well, it was … Continue reading

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A Bit of Backlog Blasphemy

I may have backslid a little on my backlog reduction goal.  I wasn’t supposed to buy any games until Fatal Frame V came out, and instead I got sucked into an indiegala deal and wound up with three new VNs … Continue reading

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Enoch Noch Nochin’ on Heaven’s Door

I came to own El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron only after it was featured in an Xbox 360 Games on Demand sale at the bargain price of $2.99.  At the time, I played the prologue and about half of … Continue reading

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A Slight Redemption

It’s taken me fifteen years, but I have finally finished a Nintendo 64 game. I didn’t manage to finish a single one of the eleven games I owned for the thing when I actually owned the original hardware, which has … Continue reading

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Otomedius Excellent, I want that hour of my life back

Anyone who’s read more than a few posts here might come to the conclusion that I rate games on a) whether there’s fan service, b) if the fan service is relevant to my interests, c) if there’s a lot of … Continue reading

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Deathsmiles II X – The Lolis Strike Back

It’s hard saying “Japanese Xbox 360-exclusive” without a massive amount of cognitive dissonance, but the thing managed to rack up a startling number of titles that fit into that category over the course of its lifespan. Probably 75% of them … Continue reading

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THE iDOLM@STER Fan Service For You!

I played through the PSP version of The Idolmaster a few years back, and it was quite a rough game to get though as a non-native speaker.  It’s very text heavy and you are frequently given dialog options with a … Continue reading

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