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For fellow PS3 users, no doubt you've seen this game plastered all over the PSN store, as it's both a new release and a weekly deal. On the surface it touts itself as an old skool style RPG, with its generically clever title that is clearly a mashup of Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy.

Well. I picked it up mostly out of boredom. I played for perhaps 30 minutes before recognizing I'd made a terrible mistake. This is a game trying to emulate the charm of classic RPG franchises and failing, ...

Let's call this what it is, shall we?

I finished the main story last week but have been spending quite a bit of time in the post game, hence why this took longer to write than TR did.

The Story

On the surface it seems pretty simple. You play as Oliver, a young boy raised by his mom in an average, old fashioned neighborhood. Until the White Witch from a parallel world intervenes and attempts to assassinate Oliver, the consequences of which send our young ...

So I finished Tomb Raider last night. I feel like playing at night is the only way to get the proper ambiance is some games, lol. Anyway.

The Story

As we all know from the advertising everywhere, this is Lara's origin story, redefined. Shipwrecked on an island, trying to survive against an insane cult of other stranded people while trying to solve the mysteries of the island itself. She loses a lot, finds her own strength in the process and kicks some serious cultist ...

So I just downloaded Tokyo Jungle from the PSN the other day. It's a post-apocalyptic animal survival game. With dinosaurs. And I'm pretty sure there's a mammoth in there somewhere. Scratching your head yet? The premise is that humankind randomly vanished, leaving pets to go wild, zoo animals to break out of their cages and...I dunno wtf explains the dinosaurs, but they're stomping around too. So seeing as I have a weakness for games with animal protagonists (and dinosaurs), I just had to try it ...