Ah, Grandia II. Your battle system is one of the best in the JRPG world, and your coming-of-age stories and themes of exploration are as timeless as the genre itself. Your battle music is among the finest in the world, and this theme is my particular favorite. It’s one of the reasons why I was…
Up until Street Fighter II, you couldn’t really name any kickass females in gaming. Well, besides Samus Aran in Metroid, but you only found that out at the end of the game! Princess Peach? She was always getting kidnapped by Bowser. “Kidnapped”. Right. There was that one cyborg female in the Guardian Legend, but other…
We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? Street Fighter, the ubiquitous 2d fighting game has now turned 25 today. Happy birthday, Street Fighter!! And big congrats to Capcom and Ono-sensei for making such a wonderful fighting game. The franchise itself has gone through numerous twists and turns to get to where they are today. Mixing…