Posted in January 16, 2013 ¬ 9:43 amh.Craig Stern
Last Spring, you may recall me having posted about Legends of Eisenwald, a King’s Bounty-style RPG by Aterdux Entertainment with castles, garrisons and turn-based tactical battles. LoE was more than 2 years into development at that time, and was well on its way to raising what would turn out to be more than $83,000 on […]
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Posted in November 21, 2012 ¬ 11:40 amh.Craig Stern
After writing about His Dark Majesty a few days ago, I felt compelled to check the game out. It took some doing, but I finally got FRAPS to play nice with the game so I could show my first impressions playing it. Have a look: All in all, it’s pretty impressive for something running on […]
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Posted in November 16, 2012 ¬ 9:28 amh.Craig Stern
I’ve been wanting to check out The Battle for Wesnoth for quite some time; over this past weekend, I finally indulged myself and recorded my first impressions as I did. This video shows the first two battles in the South Guard campaign. You can find more of my thoughts on the game here.
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Posted in October 17, 2012 ¬ 8:42 amh.Craig Stern
Greg Lobanov (a.k.a. Banov) was good enough to provide me with a pre-release beta build of his upcoming jRPG spookfest Phantasmaburbia, and so I did what I usually do when developers give me early access: I scoped the game out and made a video! Click below to get a special sneak peek: Phantasmaburbia is due […]
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Posted in October 15, 2012 ¬ 10:29 amh.Craig Stern
You may recall The Real Texas, the oddball, western-themed Zelda-alike released back in June by Kitty Lambda Games. The creator, Calvin French, was good enough to provide me a copy–my early impressions playing through the start of the game follow: Actually, I undersold Calvin’s generosity just now: he was nice enough to provide me with […]
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Posted in September 24, 2012 ¬ 1:01 pmh.Craig Stern
Along with last week’s announcement that Cardinal Quest 2 is on the way, developer Ruari O’Sullivan was good enough to give me a pre-release beta build of the game for me to check out. Below, you can see my first (and bar a few hiccups, surprisingly successful) attempt at playing as a thief. Check it […]
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Posted in August 27, 2012 ¬ 9:00 amh.Craig Stern
With the recent release of an alpha demo for Underrail, I decided to go ahead and give the game a shot. It took a bit of tinkering to get it working*, but I did, and recorded my first impressions playing the game. Check it out: The short of it: if you liked Fallout and Fallout […]
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Posted in August 16, 2012 ¬ 9:15 amh.Craig Stern
As mentioned in last week’s coverage of Defender’s Quest, there is a Gold Edition due for release soon with improved graphics, an improved interface, and a special New Game+ that adds sidequests and special abilities to items. Lars Doucet of Level Up Labs was nice enough to give me access to a pre-release version of […]
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Posted in August 3, 2012 ¬ 9:18 amh.Craig Stern
I just wrote about OFF the other day; I’ll admit, I was intrigued, so I figured I’d give the game a shot and record the experience. The results of my brief foray into the surreal world of OFF are documented below: As an aside: I learned something today, folks. Dehort is totally a word.
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Posted in July 11, 2012 ¬ 9:30 amh.Craig Stern
Hey there, folks! I was recently given access to a preview build of Drox Operative, the upcoming outer space action RPG from Soldak Entertainment. Rather than try to describe it in a written preview, I figured I’d do something a little different: record myself playing it for the first time and offer commentary as I […]
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