ToriJ Video Game Reviews

When I started doing reviews scoring things 10/10 was something I struggled with because I cannot for the life of me put my feelings to a number. Every time the doctor asks me how much does it hurt at a scale from 1 - 10 I have no idea what to say. I just can't translate a feeling to a number, there's no way I can do it.

So I came up with a system I like to think is at least fair to the games I review. My 10/10 scoring is rated by cons. This means I default the game at 10 and subtract ...

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Settle down, Shorty.

Jan 6th - Final Fantasy VIII
Jan 13th - Dust: An Elysian Tail
Jan 20th - Katamari Damacy
Jan 27th - Batman Arkham Origins

Tags: batman, dust an elysian tail, final fantasy viii, katamari damacy

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Final Fantasy , Video Games

No, this isn't about Herman Cain's 999 Plan. This is how many posts I currently have on the forum. If I can practice some restraint (quit laughing) then I'll be saving the big 1k for revealing what I got for Christmas this year, pictures and all! I seem to have a big box that is gift wrapped and a bunch of little Christmas bags. I wonder...

I wanted to sleep and actually wake up ON Christmas morning, but that didn't pan out so well, so I guess I just have to kill the next several hours ...

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Personal Life , Internet , Miscellaneous

And that pain's name is Ninja Gaiden.

I've been playing this game all day and I still haven't complete the first level. I'll get as far as the nunchuck man, who can grab me yet I can't grab him, and then be violated like a man who just dropped the soap in a prison shower. In classic Ninja Gaiden fashion there are no continues and I'm guessing I can only save in-between stages or something. It's only the first day so we'll see how the week goes but if this persists this is going to be ...

Tags: ninja gaiden, ryu hayabusa, team ninja, tecmo, xbox

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I get all giddy at the thought that people from foreign countries actually visit my blog and read my reviews, assuming they actually take the time to read my reviews and don't just click on the page and then close the window.

1.) United States (1561)
2.) Germany (157)
3.) Russia (145)
4.) United Kingdom (65)
5.) Canada (55)
6.) France (54)
7.) China (47)
8.) Ukraine (42)
9.) Malaysia (36)
10.) Sweden (36)

I figured the ...

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Video Games , Internet , Miscellaneous

Technically page views, but hits just sound so much better don't you agree?

1.) WWF War Zone (145)
2.) Dark Souls (99)
3.) Pokemon Red/Blue (76)
4.) Darksiders (63)
5.) Super Mario Bros/Sonic the Hedgehog (62)
6.) Sailor Moon: Another Story (56)
7.) Devil May Cry (49)
8.) Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (48)
9.) F.E.A.R (48)
10.) Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (46)

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I was just looking at the number of reviews I published on my blog (not this blog, the blog I have on Blog Spot) and I saw that I have already reviewed over 40 games already. And that's with a one year and three months hiatus so no telling how many it would be by now had I never gone on that break. Though the break probably did me some good since it gave me a chance to reinvent myself.

The first 20 games I reviewed were all PlayStation 1 games before I broke the norm by reviewing one ...

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Video Games

Game Dev Tycoon is a business simulation game developed and published by independent gaming company, Greenheart Games, and later published by Valve Corporation for Steam. You take control of your own video game company at the start of the computer boom and then relive video game history as you develop your own games, grow your company and aim to become the number one game developer in the industry.

You start out in your garage ...

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It's all your favorite Atari games on a PlayStation controller. I'm sure nothing could go wrong.

In July of 2001 Atari Anniversary Edition came out for the Sega Dreamcast featuring a ton of classic Atari games and special bonuses. Several months later in November a Redux version would come out for the PlayStation with a slightly altered list of Atari classics and that list includes Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Battlezone, ...

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Video Games

Back in the late eighties and early nineties, we had two video game companies going head to head for supremacy. Nintendo and Sega. While the Sega Master System made plenty of waves in Europe it never quite got the same market that Nintendo had with the NES in North America, that was until the Sega Genesis (known as the Megadrive to the rest of the world) came onto the scene in all its 16-bit glory becoming real competition for Nintendo, which ...

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