jaguarwong • Comments

• Sex, death and bright colours: Exploring the strange world of Suda 51's Killer is Dead

• jaguarwong 16/04/2013

  People (including journalists it seems) really need to learn the difference between a Suda51 game and a Grasshopper Manufacture game. Reply +7

• Fire Emblem: Awakening review

• jaguarwong 15/04/2013

  Mr Stanton, you and Mr Donlan make this site, thank you for the review. Reply +8

• Muramasa Rebirth dated for June in North America

• jaguarwong 10/04/2013

  7/10 Muramasa review
  
  Third party Wii game misrepresented in review Shock!
  
  My one hope for the coming generation is that the games press stops pandering to internet mob mentality. Reply +2

• BioShock Infinite review

• jaguarwong 25/03/2013

  Worries me how little of this review describes gameplay. Reply +51

• Saint's Row devs not concerned by proximity to GTA 5

• jaguarwong 22/03/2013

  ...but I don't think with our superpowers and alien invasions that no-one will be comparing us to them."

  They want to be a little more careful about who they let speak to the press. Reply +5

• Deadly Premonition developer making Drakengard 3

• jaguarwong 14/03/2013

  @billy_bug
  Reviews seem mixed, particularly for D2.
  I think a tenner to find out for myself would be worthwhile - I'll be sure and take a look after though.
  Cheers. Reply +1

• jaguarwong 14/03/2013

  I've never heard of the Drakengard series before now.
  
  Think I'll have to take a look on ebay. Reply +1

• Thief 4 hero Garrett less "gothic", more "mainstream"

• jaguarwong 14/03/2013

  Chin Down
  
  Eye's Up Reply +2

• How to write BioShock Infinite

• jaguarwong 13/03/2013

  @jetsetwillie
  It just felt a little bit 'forced' I guess.
  
  I've always struggled to explain this but the nature of combining plasmids and guns and all that kind of thing felt very 'directed' - like there was a right way and a wrong way - which kind of takes away the point for me. Reply +1

• jaguarwong 13/03/2013

  Bioshock's problem was that, as great as the story and environment were, the gameplay was tired. A growing trend this generation it seems.
  
  I'd rather a 'game' had fantastic gameplay and a boring story than the other way around. Reply -1

• Starbreeze's latest looks like it could be this year's Journey

• jaguarwong 12/03/2013

  @PlugMonkey
  Oh I agree, I was just pointing out that I hope consoles continue to prove viable to smaller budget and indie games.
  
  I didn't 'neg' the chap. Reply 0

• jaguarwong 12/03/2013

  @tankboi
  Square Enix just took a game that has always had a gameplay identity - a unique way of doing things - and turned it into a by-the-numbers exercise in box-ticking.
  
  The mainstream section of the games market has become afraid to innovate.
  
  That's the bleak future.
  
  The largest area of the industry, the area that just last gen gave us Metroid: Prime and GTA: Vice City is now giving us clones of countless other games - each actually allowing you to 'play' a little bit less than the last.
  
  I'm not an indie snob, my favourite two games of last year were Sonic Racing and Borderlands (The top 4 would round out with Proteus and Hotline Miami) but the type of games offered by the largest section of the industry are becoming less and less interesting. Reply +4

• jaguarwong 12/03/2013

  It's great that developers are seeking avenues for expression away from the over-commoditisation of videogames. It's a ray of hope in what looks like a very bleak future.
  
  I just hope that consoles continue to offer a valid platform for these projects into the next generation. Reply +3

• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate review

• jaguarwong 05/03/2013

  Thanks Mr Donlan.
  Reading this thorough examination of a game's mechanics makes me wish you'd done the Tomb Raider review. Reply +10

• A F2P, multiplayer, cross-platform PS3 and Vita game

• jaguarwong 31/01/2013

  An Reply +5

• Warren Spector issues impassioned farewell to shuttered Junction Point

• jaguarwong 30/01/2013

  Can't believe that people are still trotting out the Third Party death zone line in relation to the Wii.
  
  Of the hundred or so more than worthwhile games on the machine only a small fraction WEREN'T third party.
  
  Anyway, I hope Spector finds a more receptive audience soon. Perhaps the next generation will he kinder to him. Reply +2

• Earth Defence Force 2017 Portable review

• jaguarwong 24/01/2013

  Best co-op game of all time on 360, I play it with my brother in law to this day. Reply +5

• You weren't the only one confused by Tomb Raider's multiplayer

• jaguarwong 17/01/2013

  Take all the points that made previous TRs interesting and unique and sand them down until the whole is entirely interchangeable with every other box-ticking corporate cluster funk out there.
  
  No sale. Reply +4

• Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt review

• jaguarwong 15/01/2013

  The only shame is that it's taken the entire generation for someone to finally do DLC proper!
  
  We should have had 6 years of content like this. Reply +25

• Editor's blog: Bringing back mobile and tablet game reviews

• jaguarwong 14/01/2013

  Excellent news.
  
  Please critise and mark down games with in app purchases that restrict progression. Reply +4

• Pac-Man-esque action puzzler escapeVektor due next week on 3DS and Vita

• jaguarwong 14/12/2012

  This is a fantastic game, one of the the very best across all 3 dl services. Shame it was hidden away on WiiWare. Reply +1

• UK chart: FIFA 13 defends top spot from Resi 6

• jaguarwong 08/10/2012

  It's amazing the disparity between what gamers say on the internet and what they say with their wallets. Reply +15

• Suda 51's Liberation Maiden available now on the 3DS eShop

• jaguarwong 04/10/2012

  These are the games that were released as a 4-in-1 retail compilation called Guild01 in May in Japan.
  
  I think I just decided to get a 3DS Reply +4

• PlayStation Mobile: the best of the launch titles

• jaguarwong 04/10/2012

  @BigDannyH
  We're on the same page here.
  
  As I said at the top, I'd very much like for this to be a success.
  
  And as we've both said, people regard >£2 as too much.
  
  So, with the state of the market, these devs are more likely to sell 3 games at £1.50 than they are to sell 1 game at £4.50. Reply -1

• jaguarwong 04/10/2012

  @BigDannyH
  If you went to the pub and they charged you twelve quid for your pint - despite better tasting and better marketed beverages costing 3 pounds at the other end of the bar - what would you do? Reply -4