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Pokemon Sword & Shield Review

Welcome to the Galar region, the first Pokemon main series games to be on a home console, sword and shield come with big expectations, do these games rise above the controversy sorrounding them or do they falter in the weight of expectations?

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Video Game Reviews

Hyrule Warriors

Enter the world of The Legend of Zelda like you never have before! Battle your way through swarms of enemies, and play as different characters—besides Link—to battle the evil sorceress Cia. But what secrets does she possess, and how did she manage to merge the worlds of Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword into one?

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Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is the first Mario RPG to appear on a handheld console, and it’s the second spiritual successor—after Paper Mario—to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. While the main platforming titles aren’t well-known for story or character development, the Mario RPG games have always delivered on those fronts.

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Suikoden II

Many years have passed since the Toran Liberation War transformed the Scarlet Moon Empire into the Toran Republic. To the north, the warring Kingdom of Highland recently entered a cease-fire truce with the allied City-States of Jowson. A young man and his life-long friend, Jowy Atreides, both former Highland soldiers, become victims in Prince Luca Blight’s conspiracy to resume the conflict and crush the vulnerable City-States. Having been chosen by the Rune of the Beginning, the two fated youths march towards destiny to reunite the politically-fractured Jowson alliance forces and confront the maniacal prince’s mad schemes of conquest and bloodshed.

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Video Game Reviews

LUFIA: CURSE OF THE SINISTRALS

The Nintendo DS is arguably one of the best modern handheld consoles for accommodating role-playing games. This can certainly be said for Neverland’s remake of the classic Lufia series, which has made good use of the system’s capabilities and then some.

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Picross 3D

A solid block of small cubes with numbers on them sits before you. Somewhere in this solid block is a form – a dog, a castle, a person, anything. You spin it around, and deduce what cubes must either be or not be a part of the final solution, and delete all of the extraneous ones to move on to the next puzzle.

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Video Game Reviews

Suikoden

The son of General Teo McDohl, the Scarlet Moon Empire’s greatest war hero, had always lived under the shadow of his father’s reputation. That all changed the day Teo was sent into battle in the north, leaving his son at home to start his own military career in his father’s absence. With the assistance and guidance of several family friends, the son dutifully went on several missions issued to him by his Imperial superiors. During these expeditions, however, it became apparent that the Empire had grown corrupt and oppressive towards the common subjects, and the son secretly questioned his allegiance. His misgivings would eventually lead to outright rebellion when he and his like-minded allies joined forces with an underground resistance group. Thus began their desperate war of independence to overthrow the powerful, tyrannical monarchy.

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Video Game Reviews

PRINNY: Can I Really Be The Hero?

Nippon Ichi has made a real name for itself with a library of highly entertaining games, and this one is no exception. Coming off the popularity of the tactical RPG Disgaea series, this spinoff focuses primarily on the lowliest of lowly minions: the prinny.

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