Lets be honest, games based on Disney films are never good for the most part. They’re usually just cheap cash-ins, pandering to quite a young audience who, in all fairness, don’t play the games for their gameplay. They play them because they’re Disney games, contain their favourite characters, and look cute. Is Hercules...

PlayStation classic Syphon Filter was the product of 13 rather terrified developers who were actually just making it all up as they were going along, according to ex-Eidectic and Syphon Filer dev John Garvin. Garvin told the PS Blog that the team who were building the game felt mostly “terror” and took many shortcuts to get...

Making a game based on the legendary Ninja is a tough nut to crack. It seems like the vast majority of games forget that the ninja of feudal Japan were shadows in the night and almost mythical in status. Most games that take on the subject pursue it as an all out action game rather than one of stealth, cunning and, if the situation arises, of expertly honed sword play. Tenchu was a game that pushed you to be stealthy and punished the player if they approached it otherwise. But hey, you live by the sword, you die by the sword, right?

Jade Cocoon, developed by Denki and released in 1999, is like a wonderful mix of Final Fantasy and Pokemon. It combines both an intriguing RPG setting with a superb Pokemon-esque creature collecting/breeding game mechanic. For the most part it works and is one of the Playstation finest titles.

When I first played Fox Hunt I thought it was a terrible game. First off, the idea of FMV games always turned me off. Back in the early 90’s they seemed like they could be the “future” of gaming but that boat sank pretty quickly. I thought the game was cheesy, goofy, silly and relied too heavily on slapstick comedy. However, I did find that after awhile of playing I started to enjoy the game. You see, as I played Fox Hunt I took a step back and just accepted what I was playing. I didn’t analyze it or pick it apart. This isn’t a game like Shenmue where it can be examined and dissected for years. No. Fox Hunt is an interactive movie, nothing more. I don’t say that as an insult, mind you. In fact, out of all the FMV games that sold themselves as interactive movies Fox Hunt, in my opinion, is the only successful one I’ve played. However, before getting your hands on Fox Hunt you need to realize that the creators weren’t trying to make Citizen Kane here. Fox Hunt is in the vein of Ace Ventura- over the top, loud, cheesy and, thanks to Andrew Bowen who plays Jack Fremont, has laughs mostly based on his talent for psychical performances.

Here’s an interesting little game here, dear readers. It’s a Japanese style RPG developed in the west. At a quick glance it looks and feels like Final Fantasy VII- prerendered backgrounds, chunky 3d models and items that look exactly like materia and even have that quick sparkly animation, you know the one. It just feels like FFVII. But rather than it being an identical twin of FFVII it does make its own mark with a superb story, some pretty nifty dialogue and a soundtrack that is immense as it is impressive. This is one to check out, for sure.

As a kid the idea of Santa Claus disturbed me a bit. Even though I knew the guy was leaving me free toys he was still coming down the chimney, invading our home and eating our food. For all we knew he might have come upstairs with an elf crafted shiv and killed us all while we slept. Of course in the news it’d read as a simple murder but that’s the point, that’s how he’d get away with it! And if they did suspect him of murder who would arrest him? Back then I was convinced he was some kind of magical being so surely you couldn’t technically keep locked up? Even if you did would his worldwide child supporters spring him loose? GAH! As a kid my mind raced through all these possibilities during Christmas Eve night. But all that didn’t matter really. As a kid what mattered to me is what the chump would leave under the tree for me. And one Christmas was particularly pleasing.

So I’m walking down a street and at the end of a walkway there’s a giant face. It’s mouth is open and the walkway I’m on goes directly into it. It’s face is psychedelically coloured and it watches me as I get closer to it. As I get closer music begins to play. I enter the mouth and the dream is over. That was one of my first experiences playing LSD. Interested?