Since its appearance on the original PlayStation in 1998, The Simple Series was nothing but a line of budget-priced video games published by D3 Publisher and developed by several developers such as Taito, Irem, Success and Sandbot. For the most part [...]
The Musou genre (or Crowd-Brawler as some prefer to call it) came out as a surprise to many of us back in the 2000s with Dynasty Warriors 2. Mixing hack & slash elements with a myriad of enemies fitting in front of the player’s eyes was a clever [...]
FromSoftware is renowned for their bone-crushingly difficult Souls series. Yet they’re more than just a developer churning out Dark Souls games. The Japanese studio is also famous for making a myriad of mecha games such as Frame Gride, Armored Core, [...]
Hack and slash games used to pop up frequently on the PS2. One game tried to defy another with its mechanics, story and the combo system. It was surely a generation teeming with so many titles. There was quite a variety of games to pick from Devil May [...]
Japanese RPGs (or JRPGs) have always attracted gamers because of their emphasis on character building, great music, solid gameplay, and entrancing environments. One such game belonging to that category is Rogue Galaxy – it had everything fans were [...]
Since its inception nearly 15 years ago on the PlayStation 2, the God of War (abbreviated as GOW) continues to be one of my favourite video game franchises of all time, easily in my top 20. Nobody can refute the fact that this franchise didn’t just [...]
Hack and slash games will always have a special place in my heart. When I first discovered Onimusha, Devil May Cry games, I was blown away by their mechanics, and their worlds. This genre has a handful of games. Eventually, as the genre grew on me, I took [...]
Devil May Cry 5 is finally here, after an excruciating decade long wait (Seriously WTF) and fans all over the world are rejoicing the return of one of gaming’s most iconic franchises. Considering how dominant the franchise was in the PS2 era (with three [...]