Warning: This Review Spares No One in its Use of Terrible Puns PIKAWHO?! On September 30, 1998 Pokémon Red & Blue spread across the states like the plague spread in the middle ages. Since, Pokémon has left its mark on a variety of systems including every handheld (Game Boy, Game Boy Color,...

It’s time to roll out the tanks and conquer your opponents again in this latest installment of Advance Wars. But don’t expect more of the same (at least in terms of presentation). This time around, all of the old cast has been dropped, the visuals have been enhanced and the...

Fire Emblem is one of those franchises that was popular in Japan long before it ever hit Western shores. One reason for that is probably that it’s such a challenging game (if you’re familiar with the series, you are well aware of the once-they’re-dead-they’re-gone game design). But nevertheless, several years...

Although it’s difficult to choose, I would have to say that Intelligent Systems is one of my favorite development groups. It seems as though nearly everything that comes out of them is either pleasantly unique or highly polished (or both). Their diverse selection of franchises includes Metroid, Advance Wars, Fire...

Zelda fans, me included, are not an easy crowd to please. Always demanding nothing short of perfection, we complained about the infamous Wind Waker (2003, GameCube) fetch quest, its superfluous amount of sailing, and its measly six dungeons—and that’s not to mention the uproar some of us contributed to over...

In the future, all of the public parks have turned to wasteland, neglected by government and taxpayers alike.  An increasingly distraught nation turns to a surprisingly compassionate corporation for answers—and the answers they find come in a shiny metal skin.  Chibi-Robo, the product of years of toiling research at Citrusoft,...

Mario has had his hand in a number of different sports over the years, including tennis, golf, and even some more marginal roles (such as a boxing referee). One recent physical endeavor for the beloved plumber has been soccer—and in Mario Strikers: Charged, he makes what could be considered his...

A few years back, Kuju Entertainment released Battalion Wars on the GameCube.  In it, players took control of the Frontier army, plagued by a teetering relationship with a neighboring force, the Tundran army.  The game introduced a clever blend of gameplay that could only be described as having an Action/Real-Time...

This is a difficult review to write. It’s a strange thing when you have been gaming for twenty-two years, nestled comfortably within your relatively static range of preconceptions of the quality and creativity of each new title, and then, suddenly, one game comes along and shatters even your most basic...

Back in 2002, many skeptics were afraid that bringing Metroid into the third dimension could be a disastrous thing. I was one of those skeptics.