So long, Seta . And may flights of Bio Force Apes roar thee to thy rest. You too, Jaleco . Thanks for all the box art .

I’m still enjoying Tactics Ogre . By all standards of logic, I shouldn’t. It’s a tremendously dated game compared to its modern strategy-RPG...

A lot of kids discovered anime in the 1990s, but I was an unusual case. I wasn’t introduced to it by Sailor Moon or Ronin Warriors or the...

I recently decided to play through Tactics Ogre , that 16-bit strategy-RPG full of grids and medieval-fantasy politics and chipper little ch...

Here’s the important thing about The Sky Crawlers : among Mamoru Oshii’s movies, it sets a new record for going from zero to basset houn...

I don’t plan on regularly extolling my column at Anime News Network, but last week’s edition may be of greater interest than usual, as it f...

When Valkyrie Profile: The Accused One was first announced for the DS, I took issue with the official illustration that showed Lenneth, her...

Square Enix's The Last Remnant arrives this week, and the anticipation for it is guarded at best. It's an ambitious game in design ...

As Valkyrie Profile: The Accused One 's slightly delayed October release approaches, let's all take a look at the work of Yoh (a.k.a...

Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja wasn't my favorite game of 2007. In fact, it likely wouldn't have made my top ten if I'd ...

Ah, the Lunar games. Perhaps they're now archaic, but the first and best two introduced many a sheltered American kid to the ways of Ja...

Last year, I held up Yasuhiro Yoshiura's Pale Cocoon as an example of what Japan's animation industry should aspire to create. That...

I hate Trojan. I apparently hate it so much that I forgot to mention the NES edition's two-player versus mode, which is limited and bori...

I realize it's far too late to make some post recapping everything that happened to me in 2007, and that's just as well, because I d...

I finished Douglas Coupland’s Jpod over Thanksgiving. It’s pretty much a revamp of his fascinating mid-‘90s geek subculture pastiche Micros...

I recently started playing Final Fantasy Tactics in preparation for the enhanced, retranslated port that hits the PSP this Wednesday. It’s ...

I recently found not one, but two things that combine my overbearing fondness for Treasure games with my love of stupidly obscure trivia. Fr...

I'm playing The Red Star demo. I still live in Ohio. And Acclaim is still in business. It impresses me. I'm aware of the nic...

It doesn’t really shock me that voice actors play many versatile roles. It comes with their trade, after all, and I’m no longer amazed that ...

I have important news: Gunstar Super Heroes is only $10 at Toys R Us. If you have even the remotest, vaguest, slightest, subtly lingering fo...