Tag: PlayStation 2

Humble Choice February 2024 Review – Something for everyone

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I’m Kinglink in the shortest month, which means it’s time for the Humble Choice February 2024 Review.

Now this is a great month with several huge titles and a lot of value, but I’m getting ahead of myself.  I’ve done an 8-hour stream on Twitch, played through these games, and I’m also familiar with four of them due to previous experiences, so I’m ready to talk about who will like these games, why you should or shouldn’t check them out, and who they are going to appeal to.

With that being said, let’s start with the title already on screen, a game I fully played through on Xbox Game Pass, and that means I’m a fan. 

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Dynasty Warriors 3 Retro Review – Rediscovering the classic

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I’m Kinglink and… ugh… Dynasty Warriors 9 is so … meh. 

There’s something I’ve been struggling with for the last half of 2023, and while it’s older than that time period, I think Dynasty Warriors 9 is an example of it.  It feels like games have been made to be more disposable.  More designed to give you dopamine hits for enjoying it but also able to shake you off and make you go play the next thing the company produces before long or designed more with microtransaction than quality in mind.  Nothing radically improves, and especially with sequels, there’s this feeling of average games being treated as great milestones because the fans want them.

But also not in Dynasty Warriors 9’s case.  Oh boy no, Dynasty Warriors 9 is a perfect example of something much more problematic.  It’s a sequel that simply isn’t as good. A sequel that tried something different, and has not found more than a couple of fans. And because of that… it just made me want to go back to where I first fell in love with the series. 

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