Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge
System: GB
Genre: Action/Platformer
Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami
Release: 1991
Country: US
I obviously turned this into an attempt to review every “classic” Castlevania game, this is roughly the halfway point, and luckily it doesn’t make me want to kill anyone.
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Kotaku helped to broach the subject a little earlier today, and as this is something that I have an opinion on I figured I would throw my hat into the ring also. Although we here at InAnotherCastle are not the largest site, the recent debate on what acceptable reviews are in the gaming world has been odd.
I would first like to point out my opinion; the number given at the end of a review is not nearly as important as the review itself. It is not the reviewer’s fault that gamers seem to be anti-review reading and instead would like to base their hopes, dreams, and opinions on an arbitrary number given to a game that, five years from now, will be viewed as obsolete.
Video games are not necessarily a material item, they are not something like a car or, as GameSetWatch’s analogy goes, a camera. You cannot simply approach a video game from a cold, technical standpoint, but you also can’t write off technical aspects and review it simply as an emotional investment. That is where the medium and its evolution gets confusing and is also where any scoring system lacks. The answer isn’t to find some sort of agreed upon, universal scoring system in order to render sites like metacritic and gamerankings useless, the answer is to better condition readers to actually form their opinions based on the review itself and not the number that brings up the rear.
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Akumajo Special: Boku Dracula-kun!
System: NES
Genre: Action/Platformer
Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami
Release: 1990
Country: US
The Castlevania blitz continues with a blast from my reviewing past.
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At around 2PM Eastern Time, gamers everywhere felt a strong, undeniable, and unexplainable joy in their hearts. A few curious souls decided to look into why they were gifted with this euphoria. It was then that GamePolitics.com found the reasoning behind this unprecedented gamer happiness; the Florida Bar will request that Jack Thompson be disbarred for a decade.
Jack Thompson was, of course, angered by the proceedings. He had prepared an incredibly “lengthy objection” in response to the Florida Bar but was prevented from reading it out loud. There is no news as to whether or not Thompson could appreciate the irony of the courts imposed censorship. After things in the hearing continued to go against him, he eventually took his ball and went home.
This all comes a little over a month after the Florida Supreme Court barred Jack Thompson from representing himself in any of his bizarre filings with the court, forcing the lawyer to have to hire a lawyer for any future cases in order to limit the onslaught of Jack Thompson suits . The Florida Supreme Court has already gone on record saying that these cases are “repetitive, frivolous and insult the integrity of the Court.”
The idea of ten years without having to worry about this guy exerting any real influence on anybody is almost staggeringly joyful. Although it would be naïve to think that a little thing like a court decision would be enough to keep Jack Thompson out of the video game industries hair.
SOURCE (GamePolitics.com)
Posted under Game News, GamesUsually the WPL is primarily about the books I liked the most in a given week. This week, with the release of two long-awaited, “blockbuster” type books, I figured it might be more interesting to discuss them, especially since I didn’t really like either one. One of them wasn’t as bad as I was expecting it to be; the other one didn’t live up to the expectation (or the wait).
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