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  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

  • Keza 15/06/2011

    BECAUSE THEY NEED ME! :-P Reply +16

  • Keza 15/06/2011

    You do have to unlock Master Quest, yes.

    Of all the games in the world, this is the one I would have chosen for my last Eurogamer review. It's been a pleasure!     Reply +50

  • El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron

  • Keza 01/06/2011

    It's not that bad without Japanese - the actual gameplay is easy to pick up, the menus have important things like Save and Load in English. To be honest I can't make head nor tail of the plot even *with* pretty good Japanese, so I don't reckon it'd be a problem. Reply +4

  • Space Channel 5.2 XBLA PSN this summer

  • Keza 12/04/2011

    OH MY GOODNESS SPACE CHANNEL MOVE WOULD BE AMAZING. Reply +1

  • Rayman 3D

  • Keza 06/04/2011

    Rayman 2 was good, in 1999. I really liked it in 1999. I still liked it quite a lot when I played it this time around. But it's overpriced, underfeatured, ported awkwardly and marketed dishonestly - and on top of all that, I really don't think it's aged well. Game design has moved on, and it now feels anachronistic, even if there are still some lovely touches. (And from a cursory glance at Metacritic, it seems that I'm far from the only critic to think so, so I don't think I'm flying in the face of popular opinion here as much as Geowolf seems to think - not that I would suddenly change my mind if I was.) Reply 0

  • Keza 05/04/2011

    @HurbleBurble At least they've actually remade Ocarina of Time. New graphics, new systems, ground-up 3D implementation, new controls, all that jazz. For reasons unrelated to Eurogamer I spent the weekend playing OOT on the N64, and I'd also say that the design at its core holds up far, far better than Rayman 2's, 13 years on. There are still things about it that feel fresh, and so many of its innovations have since become industry standard.

    But we'll have to wait and see. I think they'd do well to release it at a £25-ish price point, but I fear that is unlikely. :-(     Reply +5

  • Keza 05/04/2011

    @Rack: Ah, but that was four games in one, and it was £20, and at least had the decency to market itself as a re-release compilation and not a new game. And it had lovely packaging, suggesting at least some care had gone into making it a collector's item. (This, meanwhile, is just one game, it's £35, and it's presented as something new.) In terms of value Mario 25 was a much better proposition. Reply +5

  • Keza 05/04/2011

    @pinkyrocks: I only found one bug, and at no point was the game unplayable. The camera just makes it rather a lot harder than it strictly ought to be.

    It's a very old game, but then, it's a good very old game. It's always difficult to score re-releases; here, the quality of the actual source game is balanced out by the technical quirks and the fact that it's £35.     Reply +7

  • Dreamcast Collection

  • Keza 31/03/2011

    @photoboy: that explains a lot! Sega were being deliberately vague about exactly which code these versions were based on. Let's hope for DC emulation next time!

    On the score: it's very hard to score compilations, especially when they're cheap (£15 in this case). Space Channel 5 Part 2 is basically worth £15 on its own. I thought a 5 was balanced; had I been scoring all the games individually there might well have been a couple of 3's in there.     Reply +7

  • Slapped Down

  • Keza 28/03/2011

    A few people have asked what I or Ellie think of this; as I've not played the game, I don't think it's prudent to answer that yet. I did write something about what I think about the controversy, though, and the reasons behind it, should anyone be interested: http://wp.me/pUf9I-2b Reply +5

  • Nintendogs + Cats

  • Keza 18/03/2011

    @Introvertigo OH MY GOODNESS *runs to printing shop* Reply +1

  • Pokémon Black & White

  • Keza 03/03/2011

    @Tony - you're reading a tone of condescension into my answer that honestly wasn't there (possibly because this is the Internet). I wasn't trying to make you look stupid. That's generally not a very professional thing to do.

    I'm sorry I skimmed and misread your question, but really, your open hostility isn't warranted!     Reply +21

  • Keza 03/03/2011

    Ah, sorry about the WPA issue - misunderstood the question, I read it as WFC. No offence intended. That'll teach me to actually attempt to answer questions in comments threads, eh? Reply +19

  • Keza 03/03/2011

    @TonyCorleone: I'm sorry, I thought it was self-evident that it's Internet-compatible after Diamond/Pearl/Platinum! Reply +1

  • GDC After Dusk: Episode I - Indie Night

  • Keza 02/03/2011

    God, the chap beside Notch would be an absolute nightmare to transcribe. Reply +1

  • Why I Hate... The Saboteur

  • Keza 30/11/2010

    @UsernamePending

    Yes, but here's the thing: these aren't reviews, they're opinion pieces. This is Why I Hate The Saboteur, not A Balanced Consideration Of The Saboteur's Relative Merits. Again, it's not a review.

    (Edit: what I mean by that is that if this WERE a review, you might have a point in criticising my "brand of journalism". But it's not, and if I had reviewed the Saboteur, I would, as always, have done everything in my power to finish it. The Saboteur is actually the only game I've ever had to give to someone else to write about because I hated it too much to present a balanced opinion.)     Reply +18

  • Keza 30/11/2010

    @UsernamePending - I couldn't stick it out until the end, but I'm hearing conflicted things about the final mission. Some see it as an emphatic underlining of everything wilfully stupid thing the game does, some as something of a turnaround. Reply 0

  • Keza 30/11/2010

    @jstar: I think I made the point that I really want games to set themselves in wars if they'd only do it with a bit of intelligence and ambition. Reply +4

  • Keza 30/11/2010

    "This article series is pretty pathetic. Whiny reviewer whines about well loved game that he doesn't like much. /yawn"

    SHE! SHEEEEE! Five years I've written for Eurogamer. SHE!     Reply +59

  • SingStar Guitar

  • Keza 19/11/2010

    @kangarootoo

    Of course attempting to be unbiased is part of the job. But bias is a spectrum, and we're all on it. We're not robots. I love the Zelda series and I'm not a fan of Halo. I'd never put myself forward to review a Halo game, because although my thoughts on it would be entertaining, probably, that review wouldn't be of use to the majority of readers, who presumably just want to know whether they should buy it.

    What really irks me about wobbly_Bob's attitude, aside from the obvious venom, is the idea that you should ignore all other games on the same/other platforms in order to form an "unbiased opinion". That is absolute, unadulterated nonsense. What use is it to review something in a vacuum? If you want to know whether to buy something, don't you compare it to everything else available?

    Reviewers in all other forms of entertainment are not expected to attempt this 100% objective viewpoint. Reviewing is a matter of saying to the reader "Hey, this is who I am, this is what I like, and this is what I think of this," not trying to channel some kind of Objective Correct Opinion from on high.

    Man, I'm more annoyed by this than I thought I was!     Reply +1

  • Keza 18/11/2010

    "A reviewers job is to be as unbiased as possible" - no it really isn't. It's to communicate our opinions in an interesting and informative way. Reply +5

  • The Sims 3

  • Keza 09/11/2010

    Invent a time travel machine, go back to when she was 7 and give her a SNES? Worked for me. Reply +9

  • Game Dev Story

  • Keza 02/11/2010

    Am I the only person never to have made a game with "bum" in the title? I feel left out. Reply +1

  • Keza 02/11/2010

    @lucky_jim: GIVE ME YOUR SECRETS Reply +7

  • DJ Hero 2

  • Keza 21/10/2010

    I don't think it would hurt to have a "version reviewed" sticker somewhere - I'll definitely ask someone why we don't. I'd presume it has something to do with the content management system.

    Re: the Avatar error - would somebody please point me towards that option? I really can't find it!     Reply 0