“Popular opinion” is a relative thing. Many gamers couldn’t tell you what SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI means, much less how to spell or pronounce it. But among hardcore RPG fans, the vote is in and this series, and specifically its cousin series PERSONA, is the best thing since the guy who coined the phrase “the best thing since sliced bread.” I...

PERSONA has become a phenomenon all its own. A cousin to Atlus’ flagship SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI series, the Persona franchise has quickly outsold the main-series SMT series in Japan. In America, we don’t even have access to SMT 1 and 2 (3 is “Nocturne” for PS2, and some argue that “Strange Journey” for DS is 4, but I assure you...

So, as you may have read if you’ve been following the posts on Gameosaurus, we took a break from our weekly podcast, and will soon be slowing down recordings. There were a number of reasons for it, but chief among them was this: I, the Gameodactyl, was awful at keeping up with our self-imposed schedule. We planned on discussing a book, Steven Johnson’s...

Question: What’s the best way to tell that a game has really hooked you? Answer: When, every time you sit down to write about the game, you instead decide to go play it some more. (okay, maybe that only happens to people who review games on a regular basis…) Such has been my experience with DROPLITZ. I had only heard about this new puzzle game because it...