I’ve been painfully behind on recent titles from one of my favorite localization houses. NIS America has put out Disgaea 4 and Atelier Totori in the last few months, and I haven’t even touched them. I haven’t played Ar tonelico 3 either. Fortunately, I did get around to playing the PSP title CLADUN X2 after spending a little too much time with my...

HALF-MINUTE HERO is a PSP game from Marvelous Entertainment that boils jRPG tropes down into easily digestible chunks. Looting and level grinding are still here, they just take seconds instead of hours. It’s based on the freeware game 30 Second Hero, and playing that gives you a good idea of what to expect from the game’s title mode. When it sticks to...

I missed Mario. Sure, there’s been a great Mario game on each of Nintendo’s last three consoles, but it’s just not the same when he’s in three dimensions. Mario is the one character that I don’t want to see punching bad guys in the face. NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII gives me the chance to stomp on goombas again. Not much has changed....

As a gamer, you’re bred to take chances. There’s little penalty for throwing yourself off a cliff just to see what’s below. After all, what’s one death among the extra lives, automatic saves and endless continues that most games throw at you today, or the save states that make death in older games meaningless. Put enough time into most games...

One of our planned monthly features on Gameosaurus is a “Virtual Console Round-Up.” It’s a fairly relevant piece; after all, who doesn’t want to pay for games you could have had freely (though illegally) on your computer anytime over the last decade? Seriously though, there is something satisfying, not to mention ethical, about paying Nintendo...