E3 2012 Summary
This year’s E3 was spectacularly mediocre, what with many people expecting PS4/Xbox 720 to be unveiled, and they weren’t. Not even Nintendo managed to hype its upcoming Wii U console that well....
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 11-17.06.2012
This week’s game music is rather special – it’s my favourite song from my favourite video game soundtrack… Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was a single-disc game and, if you put the CD in your...
View ArticleVagrant Story
The second review of a game on the original PlayStation I will do is of a game that came out relatively late in the console’s lifespan. Like Xenogears, Vagrant Story is one of the less known Squaresoft...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy VII PC coming to Steam!
Recently, Square Enix registered the FinalFantasyVIIPC.com domain, so we knew they were up to something. Today, thanks to Google’s cache, we have found out what. The PC version of the RPG classic is...
View ArticleUncharted: Drake’s Fortune
When it comes to gaming, I’m usually behind the times a bit (as you may have already noticed). My backlog is just quite massive and there are few contemporary games that interest me as much as older...
View ArticleUncharted 2: Among Thieves
After beating the first Uncharted, I immediately jumped on the second one. It’s the one widely considered the best in the series, with the highest scores from both fans and critics and all, so my...
View ArticleValkyrie Profile: Lenneth
Valkyrie Profile is one of the most nontraditional games I’ve played recently. As with most anticipated games on my backlog, I went in with almost no knowledge, I’d only heard it was an action-style...
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 03-09.12.2012
I recently played and reviewed Valkyrie Profile, a game that’s not that well-known, but is truly among the best PlayStation RPGs. In the review, I chose the beautiful song “Behave Irrationally”, which...
View ArticleTop 10 Final Fantasy Girls
I’ve been a Final Fantasy fan for many years now, and, despite the less-than-stellar entries in the last 10 years or so, the series remains dear to me. Games like Final Fantasy VI, VII and Tactics are...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy VIII
Until recently, there was one big hole in my personal Final Fantasy history – the one game from the entries before the series went online that I hadn’t beaten. Final Fantasy VIII was the successor to...
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 16-22.12.2013
The original PlayStation was the undisputed king of RPGs, not only for its console generation, but also to date (SNES is the only other real contender). One of the interesting projects on the console...
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 13-19.01.2014
After the more futuristic VI (to some extent), VII and VIII, Final Fantasy IX saw the series finally return to the medieval setting – to its roots, so to speak. And it worked brilliantly – it was a...
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 20-26.01.2014
I’ve said most that I’ve wanted to say about Final Fantasy VIII already… As I mentioned last week, its love story wasn’t very good, despite being its main point. As a whole, it’s a relatively fun, but...
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 24.02-02.03.2014
Final Fantasy Tactics, while a part of the franchise mostly by name (and Final Fantasy VII cameos), is easily one of the best, if not THE best in the series – only the mighty Final Fantasy VII, a game...
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 03-09.03.2014
Time to end this long Final Fantasy cycle, and with the game that spawned the game that started it, too. Final Fantasy VII, considered by many the best game of all game, marked a revolution not only in...
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 11-17.08.2014
Being the successor of an absolute masterpiece created by a Square Dream Team, Chrono Cross was incredibly highly anticipated… Sadly, it not only failed to live up to the hype, it was a rather...
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 25-31.08.2014
The Persona series gained a lot of fame in more recent years with its third and fourth installment, but it started a while ago on the original PlayStation with the first two. Persona: Revelations was...
View ArticlePersona 2
The original Persona was one of the very first games I reviewed on Between Life and Games, shortly after I started the site. It’s time to take a look at its sequel. Truth be told, I am reviewing two...
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 16-22.02.2015
Earthworm Jim, one of the favourite game series of my childhood, was featured a long time ago in Video Game Music of the Week… It casually came up in conversation today, so I’ve decided it’s time to...
View ArticleVideo Game Music of the Week – 23.02-01.03.2015
This week’s music was suggested by Ertyu, and once again it’s from the series that features his favourite video game girl, Aya Brea. After the first game’s opening theme, this time it’s the sequel’s...
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