Nice color scheme Five things that sucked: 1. Sword Beams Sword beams in Zelda are weak and inconsequential. Check out Crystalis for sword beams done right: More than one type of beam Beams are stronger than standard slashes Multiple levels of beam strength Beams are necessary to progress through the game Beams look like fireballs [...]

Today is October 1, a date of great significance in human history. No, I’m not talking about the Battle of Gaugamela, the beginning of Shinkansen service from Tokyo to Osaka, or even the Thrilla in Manila. I’m talking about the fateful day when savage war engulfed the world and civilization was destroyed: 1997, October 1, [...]

Crystalis was the best RPG for the NES. Zelda sucked. Final Fantasy sucked. Then came Crystalis—a game so brilliant, so captivating, so devoid of pedophilia that it would surely take the gaming world by storm. Unfortunately, it came out so late in the life of the NES (1990) that it got lost amongst shitty games [...]