In summary, I am generally positive on Final Fantasy 6, but I feel like it's sandwiched between two superior games, both in tone and style. FF5 is a simple joyride through a generally fun story with a great villain and heartwarming optimistic protagonists. FF7 dives straight into the darkness with ...

Story I find that the plot of FFVI takes a while to get going, with too many return trips to Narshe, though it does eventually get exciting, especially when it reaches the floating continent. But this is where my investment stops. Simply put, I find the world of ruin boring. It was a ballsy, ambiti...

A few suggestions: Klonoa: Door to phantomile. And the sequel if you want I guess, but the first one is where the magic is at. Spyro The Dragon and its first two sequels - with both Crash and Spyro getting revivals the time seems ripe. Rayman and its sequel Pony Island Medievil 1-2 Some of the Class...

I first experienced FF 5 when the SNES games saw PAL release on the playstation one. At this time I had just devoured final fantasies 7 through 10, and was completely engrossed in the series. So while I was happy to also get three “extra” games, I was not without reservations: The games looked antiq...

Full disclosure: As someone who considers platformers his favorite genre and Megaman his favourite franchise, I was probably the easiest lay possible for Shovel Knight. Even so, I could’ve never predicted just how much I’d grow to love this game, which stands as one of my all-time favorites. Firstly...

Hailing from the PAL region I didn’t get to play FFIV until the anthology version came along, at which point I was intimately familiar with its playstation successors. So, like III for the DS, the game was a significant step down in terms of, well, everything to me– but unlike III I’ve revisited IV ...

I am not a Metal Gear fan, I’m probably in the minority that bought this game with no interest in the fabled MGS2 demo. Ironically, Zone of the Enders almost felt like a glorified demo itself, and not just due to the surprisingly short length. Not only do the environments and challenges feel limited...

Final Fantasy III is the last mainline game in the series I’ve played, but the first in terms of chronological release. That is to say, like many others I first played it for the DS, at a time where I had knowledge of decades worth of subsequent releases in the series. This, unsurprisingly, was not ...