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29/10/2025

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles - REVIEW!!!

The OG final fantasy tactics game is back for the modern consoles with a fresh coat of paint (an upscale) and all new voice acting never featured in the original as well as a nice fast forward system.

The new additions like a fully voice acted cast make the story more palatable in this modern age as opposed to just reading countless dialogue text boxes. The actors themselves all do an amazing job at bringing the characters to life, which in turn gives you a greater sense of attachment to them because of it.
When a character would die on the battlefield, I was scrambling to restart the battle or load a previous save, not because they were amazing in battle, but because I couldn't see the myself playing though the story without them, which I attribute to voice acting.

Another great feature is the fast forward button which speeds up battles tremendously, especially the CPU enemies as they can drag the battles down to a crawl at times. This is one of those quality of life features that really helps brings thing up to a more modern standard, especially since the game is quite lengthy.

Gameplay wise it's not a complex tactics game, but it has some nice features like a fully developed job system where you can have any character change their class at any time outside of battle. You can train & level them up from squires, to knights, archers, monks, black mages, white mages, dragoons...the list goes on. Not only that, you can mix and match move sets from two classes to really get a team that can handle any situation.

The game is no pushover either with some truly tough boss battles, but with preparation and planning, as well as knowing your characters full potential, everything is fair and can be overcome.

I'm really happy with this remaster as it retains the originals charm but adds enough in to modernise for new and old players alike.
If you've never played a tactics game, this is a good starting point as it is the original of the final fantasy tactics series and one that delivers a great story packed with content.

12/10/2025

Sonic Racing Crossworlds - REVIEW!

Let's get this out of the way, the game is top notch!z

After the last weak entry in the series, I was sceptical going into this one, but damn did they address all my issues. No more crappy rubber banding, no insanely cheap ai, just a really fun, fast and fluid racer that gives you multiple speed modes, rivals to race that you can increase the difficulty of and plenty of amazing tracks.

The customisation of vehicles isn't as much as say mario kart 7 but there is still a good amount to play around with as well as skills to assign such as starting with a boost, going above the max ring count, the ability to hold an additional item and tonnes more.

The new gimmick is that on the second lap of a track you will switch over to a completely different track which keeps things fresh as these are different everytime and then you go back to the original track on the third lap to finish it out. The best use of this is in Gran Prix where the last race is a mashup of the 3 three tracks of the cup. It's this innovative design that keeps things fresh for the series, whilst retaining vehicles changing to boats and planes in certain sections which was introduced in Sonic Racing transformed.

The roster is another high point with actual loved characters from the Sonic franchise, and not just lame generic enemies *cough* mario kart world *cough*
Plus they have collaborated with nickelodian to bring in Spongebob and Patrick, the minecraft crew and characters from other sega franchises like joker from persona and ichiban from Like a dragon with plenty more to come.
This is a game with a solid road map of what's to come and be excited for in future.

Also the music in the game is outstanding and the game runs so incredibly smooth despite the high fidelity vehicles and chaos on screen. It's so incredibly polished top to bottom...one of the best releases of the year.

If you love kart racers, or even just some arcade racing in general, go grab this right now!

15/06/2025

In an unrelated Gaming post, I was fortunate enough to get a ticket to see Parkway Drive at the Opera house...during vivid for an extra bonus. The show was absolutely incredible and from seeing them 21years ago for $12 at an rsl on the goldcoast to now this...what an experience.

28/05/2025

I'm loving the remaster of these amazing games! Onimusha 2 remaster is out now, but will they release the third game in the series since it has actor Jean Reno as one of the playable characters.
Hopefully they can get around licencing and we get all 4 of these amazing games again.

19/05/2025

This beauty finally arrived. I absolutely adore this game and still have my ps1 complete copy.

Now the question is do I open it or keep it sealed! Gah decisions!

03/03/2025

LIKE A DRAGON: PIRATE YAKUZA IN HAWAII - Review in progress

I've had the pleasure of reviewing this thanks to the awesome folks at and from what I've played so far this follows right on from Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, but from more of a side story story arc.

The gameplay is faster and more fluid and the brawling mechanics have honestly never felt this good. The Ship combat is really fun and engaging, the story is crazy as ever and the new locations are really fun to explore. What blew my mind is the entire Honolulu map from Infinite Wealth is also here in its entirety.

You also have access to master system games again and new arcade classics to jump into as well as some more fun minigames like Golf, Karting and also favs like Karaoke and Darts.

The game is absolutely stacked with content and i hope to bring my final video review out soon once I dig towards the ending of the game, so stay tuned.

20/12/2024

Finally a physical copy of one of the absolute best collections in gaming history (in my opinion)
This collection brings together all my favourite games like x-men children of the atom, x-men vs street fighter, marvel vs capcom and marvel vs capcom 2 (plus more) as well as one of the most underrated beat em ups - the punisher.
Not i can play all these bangers off the one cart, now i just need a saturn and dreamcast controller for my switch to really feel at home.

I remember first seeing x-men children of the atom and being blown away. Seeing iceman launch this huge ice boulder on screen was next level and as a huge street fighter fan, having those mechanics for an x-men game was lile heaven.

If you've never played any of these games, then you're missing out... until now, because now you can go buy this collection!! Do it!

21/11/2024

30th anniversaryyyyyy! Love this controller with its PS1 style packaging and colour design.

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