The Witch and the Hundred Knight
Nippon Ichi Software is the travelling carnival of videogame publishers. Silly claims require credible evidence, and no other North American publisher can boast of a lineup matching the likes Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman, Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero?, and all the Disgaea you can handle. Like your favorite carnival-barking provocateur, their gifts carry a certain danger of min...[Read More]
Flap Jaw Space: Episode 75
This time we’re talking Dr. Dre, the hilarious existence of bitcoin, using the internet to justify paying people to complete housework for you, culturally significant television, what caused a 19-year-old Chris to beat up his parents’ house, the science of sleep, whether or not mattresses accumulate dead parts of living people, why Eric is on perscription medication, sacrificing chocol...[Read More]
Luftrausers
PRESS X TO RAUS
Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster
Final Fantasy X, in traditional Final Fantasy form, became the model for its generation of Japanese role-playing games. Final Fantasy X-2 replaced weight with whimsy and functioned as a celebration of its namesake. In the case of Final Fantasy X and its fanatic follow-up Final Fantasy X-2, their place in time and position in Square-Enix’s history are symbiotic parts of the same story. How th...[Read More]
Resident Evil 4 Ultimate HD Edition
Resident Evil 4 has earned the catalogue releases expected of a game of its stature. Its 2005 debut on GameCube inevitably gave way to an underpowered but more popular PlayStation 2 release later that year. 2007’s trip to the Wii became adored due to the attention devoted to the Wii’s unique controller, while the PC port that same year was adored for nothing because it was terrible. 20...[Read More]
Flap Jaw Space: Episode 74
Welcome to 2014, where Flap Jaw Space – your favorite weekly semi-weekly monthly whenever podcast kicks off the 2014 videogame power-rankings. Setting us off this year are Octodad: Dadliest Catch, Bravely Default, Risk of Rain Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Broken Age, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, DayZ, Awesomenauts, and the inevitable Best of 2014 winner, Nidhogg. ...[Read More]
Flap Jaw Space: Episode 73
Here it is, a sorry two months after it was recorded, Flap Jaw Space’s end-of-the-year deliberations of the best videogames released in 2013. Includes hot and timely discussion of Super Mario 3D World, A Link Between Worlds, and The Wonderful 101. Along the way we discuss what Steve would do if he owned Nintendo, the legitimacy of the Histocrats, if there are things other than crackers that ...[Read More]
Earth Defense Force 2025
Earth Defense Force 2035 is a game focused on obliterating giant alien bugs and colossal robots with obscene firearms. Again.
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
It’s difficult to pinpoint what sort of arcane alchemy lead to the birth of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare. It’s a popular name in the mobile space, but aimed at a console-oriented, shooter-friendly crowd. It’s also a handsomely dressed competitive shooter sent to swim with sharks like Titanfall, Battlefield, and Call of Duty. It’s even silly proof that a motivated part...[Read More]
Strider
Strider hits the ground running - and carrying all of the weight implicit in its brash temperament.
Jazzpunk
Punk as symbiotic suffix of specific speculative fiction has enjoyed a profound proliferation and patterned progression. There’s something immortally cool about mixing civil dissent and rebellious heroism with the retro or futuristic take on a scientifically gifted and/or deficient society. Cyberpunk begat steampunk and biopunk and, skipping down a few generations, clockpunk and elfpunk. Jaz...[Read More]
Little Racers STREET
Top-down racers. Isometric racers. Games like R.C. Pro-Am. Whatever you prefer to call the nebulous genre of camera-not-quite-behind-the-vehicle racers, it’s easy to agree they’re not particularly well represented in 2014. Other than MotorStorm RC and, to a lesser extent, Death Rally, there aren’t many modern options of the non-mobile garbage variety. Milkstone Studios aims to fi...[Read More]