Game Reviews9/10
Dragon Warrior VII Asked Players to Spend a Hundred Hours Before the Story Began
Dragon Warrior VII hit PlayStation in 2000, the last game to use the Dragon Warrior name in North America and the first mainline entry in eight years.
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Tag: retro games
Game Reviews5.6/10
Wild Arms’ Spaghetti Western Setting Outshines Its Combat
Wild Arms brought a Western-fantasy world to PlayStation in 1997. A look at Filgaia, its three heroes, Tools, and why the combat aged badly.
Game Reviews8.1/10
Chrono Cross: A Timeless RPG Classic
Chrono Cross, Square's 1999 PlayStation RPG, reviewed: parallel worlds, 45 playable characters, no random encounters, and a remaster years later.
Game Reviews7/10
Silent Hill: The 1999 Original Is Still the Most Frightening Town in Games
Silent Hill (1999) review: Team Silent's fog-bound PS1 horror classic, its otherworld, clumsy combat, cult story, and why it still works today.
Game Reviews8.2/10
How Resident Evil Turned a Creaking Mansion Into a Trap That Teaches You to Survive
Capcom's 1996 PC Resident Evil is the only version with all uncensored FMV intact — color intro, Kenneth's death, and ending. Review score: 8.2/10.
Game Reviews8.9/10
Ikaruga’s Black-and-White Polarity Is Still the Smartest Idea in Shoot-‘Em-Ups
Ikaruga, Treasure's 2001 polarity shooter, explained: the black-and-white absorb mechanic, chain scoring, Shinra's story, and why the design still holds.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Wetrix Turns Rainfall Into a Resource You Can Drown In
Wetrix review: Zed Two's 1998 water-catching puzzle game for N64 and PC, from its fireball economy to its thin split-screen battle mode. Score: 8.5/10.
Game Reviews8.8/10
The 1970s That Never Happened, and the Vehicular Brawler Built on Top of It
Vigilante 8 review: Luxoflux's 1998 vehicular combat classic, its alternate 1975 oil-crisis setting, the Site-4 ambush, and why it still holds up.
Game Reviews6/10
Tetrisphere Wraps Its Puzzle Grid Around a Ball and Never Quite Justifies the Gimmick
Tetrisphere brought a wrapped sphere and chain-reaction combos to the N64 in 1997, with a Neil Voss score reviewers loved. A buried puzzle experiment.
Game Reviews7.4/10
N64 kart racer Snowboard Kids gets a rerelease that keeps the racing tight and the extras slim
Snowboard Kids on Nintendo 64: nine odd courses, two item slots, and a 100-gold economy that make Atlus's 1997 racer smarter than its thin story.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Midway dropped the NBA Jam name and Michael Jordan, then made its best arcade basketball game anyway
NBA Hangtime (1996) review: Midway's two-on-two arcade sequel adds Create Player, team fire, and 1996-97 rosters — but no Michael Jordan.
Game Reviews6.7/10
Goemon’s First English Release Is a Blunt, Faithful Port of the N64 Original
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon on Game Boy Color was a port of a Japan-only original, and its 2000 European release was the game's first in English.