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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake – A stealth sequel

I can’t quite remember which Metal Gear game I played first. I remember a mate introducing me to the US version of Metal Gear Solid, a few months before I excitedly picked up the PAL release, and around the same time I remember snagging an original NES Metal Gear cartridge from the second hand market…

R-Type Tactics – Charge n blast

Sometimes all a game needs is one good game mechanic; one thing that adds an original twist that can elevate an otherwise average game into something more engaging. R-Type Tactics has that one thing. It arguably has two. Both of them, of course, inherited from the classic 1987 shoot-‘em-up from which it originates.

Demonschool – Stylish strategy

I’ve been looking forward to Demonschool for as long as I’ve known about it. As a creation of Necrosoft Games, run by veteran games journalist and Insert Credit podcaster, Brandon Sheffield, it comes from a group of people who seem to have very similar taste in games to me. What’s more, it’s a tactics RPG,…

Boktai – The sun is sometimes in your hand

When I first heard about Boktai as an obsessive gamer in my early twenties, I knew I just had to play it. This was Hideo Kojima’s first release for a Nintendo system… A new vampire killing adventure from Konami… A mini stealth-action game in which the protagonist shares a name with Franco Nero’s 1963 spaghetti…

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