This week, you’ll be “Batman”-ing enemies to death on the Xbox 360 and PS3, as well as putting on a tophat solving people’s math problems and relive a Square Enix fanboy’s wet dream in English.
Posts tagged ‘final fantasy’ // Page 2
Sometimes in my haste to talk about Mario and Metroid, I forget that I’m writing content for a heavily Sony-biased fanboy-filled console site and should talk about what’s going on at Sony’s camp. Next to God of War III getting a release date (March 2010), and a kick-ass 20-minute demo, but also a motion controller [...]
Melodies Of Life: Heir Apparent
Posted in Retro
Let’s face reality, people. Nobuo Uematsu is not going to return to compose music Final Fantasy anymore. Sure, he might contribute a piece or two for nostalgia’s sake, but he and Square Enix have now parted ways about a decade ago. Let us all do the same and look to the future. As of right [...]
Melodies of Life: Sweet Sixteen
Posted in Retro
The insides of the Super Nintendo/ Super Famicom’s audio centre consists of an 8-bit Sony SPC700 made up of two chips and has a 64 byte boot ROM. The system acted on its own, meaning it doesn’t share any processing power with the main CPU and graphics chip. Any audio streamed for any game become [...]
Nobuo Uematsu: anyone who played console RPGs might have heard of him. When not composing and scoring beautiful pieces of music for Final Fantasy, he is composing and scoring beautiful pieces of music for his own company called Smile Please. We thought with Distant Worlds coming by, we point out a few tidbits about the [...]
Melodies of Life: 8-Bit Hit
Posted in Retro
One of the many elements which make Final Fantasy a footnote of Japanese RPG history has always been its music, hence the appearances of concerts like Distant Worlds and tribute bands like The Black Mages popping up. As Distant Worlds is coming up this Friday, let us look back at the music that help make [...]
This week amidst our harrowing schedule, I manage to playtest a few downloadable games up for grabs right now: Crystal Defenders for XBLA and Ragdoll Kungfu for PSN. One is a Desktop Tower Defense game with Final Fantasy Tactics Advance art, while the other is Super Smash Bros. minus the mascots. Are both any fun? [...]
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