By the time I had finished playing through the original Corpse Party I was ready to hit up Google’s image search and stare at images of kittens, rainbows, penguins and other assorted happy imagery. The original Corpse Party was disturbing, …

Unchained Blades takes place in a peculiar world where everyone starts off as human, and as they progress in life – or level up – they slowly turn into mythical beasts such as dragons, phoenixes, or giant metal golems. The …

Each year I engage in an October Horror Movie Marathon and each year I’m left a little disappointed. Not so much by the movies themselves but by the fact that I just don’t get scared anymore. I love to watch …

Phantom Brave: The Hermuda Triangle brings the long-running Phantom Brave series to the PlayStation Portable. It’s packed with single-player content and even includes an entirely new campaign titled “Marona’s Story” that delves more deeply into the Phantom Brave lore. The …

Auditorium’s portable rendition shares a lot in common with its HD version on the PS3; the PSP game is, in fact, half of Auditorium HD and 100% of the content found in the original Flash version. It’s tough to recommend …

The core concepts of Patapon hold a dear place in my heart. The original game melded rhythm and strategic gameplay in such a unique way that it strongly impressed me. It’s tribal thumping bore deep into my subconscious to such …

My journey with Z.H.P. has been sinusoidal, ranging from crests of delight to troughs of detestation. I’d like to note up front that this game is from Nippon Ichi Software, and as such shares many things in common with their …

Dragons are cool. It is an unassailable fact of existence. Knowing this, Vancouver-based Big Sandwich Games could have easily phoned in any generic dragon game and hoped for a quick buck. Instead they gave us HOARD, an action arcade-strategy (“stratecade”) …

The Prinny squad is back for another 2D sidescrolling platformer on the PSP. In Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero, released in 2009, the main objective of the game is to recover Master Etna’s missing Ultra Dessert. Prinny 2 …

I didn’t have any expectations going into Cladun, really. That’s probably in part why I was so utterly delighted with the game from the get-go. Upon beginning the game, I was asked if I would like the background music to …