I’ve never understood the appeal of the whole super deformed thing. I get the whole “cute” angle of it but aside from the novelty of seeing chibi renditions of your fan favorite characters (as SD is usually applied to popular properties) it does nothing for gameplay. The only time I guess it added any benefit […]Syd of Valis
I’ve never understood the appeal of the whole super deformed thing. I get the whole “cute” angle of it but aside from the novelty of seeing chibi renditions of your fan favorite characters (as SD is usually applied to popular properties) it does nothing for gameplay. The only time I guess it added any benefit […]
It’s strange; by any metric the Valis series is nothing but a bunch of solid and sometimes below average games yet I love them to death. Maybe that love stems from their uniquely Japanese aesthetic or the fact that they make use of extensive cutscenes which to my teenaged mind was the greatest thing ever. […]
With so many versions of each installment in the Valis series floating around it’s pretty challenging to figure out which are worth your time. As much as I’d like to remember the series fondly in truth each game released in the US had problems. Valis II for the Turbo CD is a stripped down version […]
Time certainly can be cruel. I remember Valis as a kick butt series of action games for each platform they graced. However as time passed and the bar was raised they were simply competent in the face of such classics as Earthworm Jim, Gunstar Heroes, etc. While Valis IV is one of the stronger entries […]
And now we come to the penultimate chapter in the Valis saga (at least until Telenet fell on hard times and whored out Yuko in porn games. True story). The Valis series were sort of bastions of merging cinematics with side scrolling action and part 3 ups the ante in that regard. Far better than […]
Some things are best left in the past. Nostalgia can obscure your memory to the truth, making you fondly remember something that in all actuality was pretty terrible. He-Man for instance was not a good cartoon no matter how badly I wish otherwise. In my mind Valis was a kick ass action game but in […]
