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Super Mario RPG

Posted by: roosky in review, Roosky Plays Games 2 years, 9 months ago

Nostalgia’s a hell of a drug. This is seldom more apparent than when talking to someone about old Nintendo games. The first time I mentioned that Super Mario RPG was the next game in my queue, the friend I was talking to immediately responded, “That game is SO good.” Is it really?

Abandoned: Might and Magic Book One

Posted by: roosky in review, Roosky Plays Games 3 years, 1 month ago

As soon as the Might and Magic series came up in the RPG project, I was anxious about where to start. Book One, after all, was released in 1986 - still in the very early stages of the video game industry. It didn’t really pioneer anything new - the 1st person graphics had been done before in The Bard’s Tale, there was a pile of prior RPGs like Ultima and Wizardry, and it was pretty inferior compared to its contemporaries like the Legend of Zelda, and Dragon Quest.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Posted by: roosky in review, Roosky Plays Games 3 years, 7 months ago

This episode of Roosky Plays Games brings us 2002’s Splinter Cell. The random selection was actually Splinter Cell: Double Agent, the fourth installation of the Splinter Cell series, but the “sequel rule” means that we go to the first unplayed game in the series. I like to play things in story order. The first unplayed one in this case happens to be the first one in the series.

Roosky Plays... Bridge It+

Posted by: roosky in game log, Roosky Plays Games 4 years, 1 month ago

I thought I'd try something new for this blog post. So here it goes - a stream of thoughts as I played through Bridge It+.

Roosky Plays... Fallout

Posted by: roosky in Roosky Plays Games 4 years, 3 months ago

"Find a water chip, or everyone you've ever known will perish," is a damn good start to an adventure. And so our hero (me) steps out of the vault, into the caves beyond with only a knife and his Vault-Tec jumpsuit.

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