Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne begins with a nightmare and ends in a dream. In the first five minutes of the game you go from being a thoughtful student visiting his teacher at the hospital, to the arrival of the apocalypse, and finally your metamorphosis into a demi-fiend via ingestion of a demon...

Resident Evil fascinates more as a continuing series than any individual game. Where was there to go after the original trilogy nuked a city but soft camp. And so RE IV redefined the genre from survival horror to suspenseful action (almost like a Dark Souls precursor in its emphasis on tactical comb...